Example sentences of "their [noun pl] have [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter , their books have been follow-up studies of this second group of children . |
| 2 | Safe as the Mark 3 coaches have been , however , their designers have been responsible for actually causing one or two accidents because straps and fixings holding underfloor equipment were inadequate and worked loose , allowing major items to fall off . |
| 3 | Apes may well have produced new two-sign combinations that their trainers have been inclined to interpret as appropriately invented for some feature in the context . |
| 4 | Their lives had been plain and unadorned , and it was in such language that Grainne would address them . |
| 5 | Judge David told them , their lives had been devoted to the relief of pain and suffering but in this case they chose to inflict considerable pain on a young woman in their care , isolated by their way of life . |
| 6 | It was as if their lives had been aimless , random as pinballs , but when they came inside her door , there was a chair especially for them and a mug chosen for their tea . |
| 7 | Their casualties had been acceptable , and the cynogen had put an end to the indigenous subterraneans . |
| 8 | As in criminal law , look for all the possible torts that may have been committed , and consider whether their essentials have been satisfied . |
| 9 | A third approach was adopted by a small minority of bishops but an ever-larger circle of theologians , young priests ordained round about the time of the Council and lay activists , all far more aware of the objective inadequacy of the conciliar documents as they stood : inadequate precisely because their composers had been over-anxious not to make any sharp break with pre-conciliar practice . |
| 10 | They may not have been famous , but their contributions have been vital and never forgotten . |
| 11 | Some of their actions have been strong and imaginative . |
| 12 | Their identities have been confused : William was probably ‘ Bottomley the shoemaker ’ who prayed aloud in the company of the Nonconformist ministers Francis Higginson and Jeremiah Burroughs [ qq.v ] in the later 1620s . |
| 13 | If so , they were n't tapping into their slabs , for their files had been undisturbed since the original input . |
| 14 | Their representations have been valuable . |
| 15 | Their farewells had been short . |
| 16 | None of their trees had been coppiced , so that knolls of tall beeches and huge , spreading oaks delayed the eye as it swept over rolling pastures and ploughed fields . |
| 17 | In the end , only 15 per cent of the school leavers considered that their qualifications had been essential to their getting jobs . |
| 18 | To bring out the contrast with UK policy , we can consider a specific case , that of the MMC inquiry into the White Salt Market. ; Two firms supplied virtually the entire UK salt market and , over the 13 year period taken by the MMC , their prices had been identical and had changed identically within a few weeks of each other . |
| 19 | With great trepidation and much backsliding the tsar eventually granted the serfs a sort of freedom , but if their interests had been dear to his heart he could have committed himself earlier and pressed harder for a settlement which gave them an economically viable future . |
| 20 | Their flesh is popular with many local peoples and their scales are valuable as ornaments and decorations , with the result that their numbers have been dwindling . |
| 21 | And considering two thirds of the Education Department 's activities take place behind Ethiopian lines — in what the EPLF calls semi-liberated areas — their achievements have been impressive . |
| 22 | Several clinical studies evaluating the effect of somatostatin or octreotide on ERCP induced pancreatic reactions have been published but their results have been conflicting . |
| 23 | Only their subscribers have been able to watch the races on national television , and this will continue until ABC screen the Cup races themselves , starting on May 9 . |