Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes but surely if you 're saying in combating Chinese collaborators , settling accounts with landlords and reducing rents and interest , the people have seized the land directly from the landlords thus realizing the principle of the land to the tiller where the mass movement has been thorough the land problem is being or has basically been solved . |
| 2 | Even when an in-house team has been successful the changes in many local authorities have been significant , costs have been cut and management has adopted more competitive attitudes . |
| 3 | For risks in Northern Ireland and certain other Rating Districts where the experience has been unfavourable the premium increase is higher than elsewhere although it will still be partially offset where the Rating Group of the insured car has been reduced . |
| 4 | When the lessons from the pilot survey have been fully learned alterations can be made where necessary , but if the work done prior to the pilot has been adequate the alterations consequent upon it should not be great . |
| 5 | In court he also stated he 'd been unaware the cannister , legal on the continent , was an offensive weapon in Britain . |
| 6 | ‘ In theory , I suppose , the nearest piece of fruit could have been doctored , but I do n't see myself how the murderer could have been sure the victim would have picked it . ’ |
| 7 | Nor would the expedition have been possible the next winter . |
| 8 | Above all , to Tolkien 's mind , there must have been present the problem of Beowulf . |
| 9 | Yet at a time when decisive action against the Nazis might still have been effective the Swiss Carl Burckhardt made very few decisions at all . |
| 10 | His conclusion that there was no duress where the defendant could only put pressure on the plaintiff by the institution of proceedings , to which proceedings there would have been available the defence which ultimately prevailed , was , in my view , unimpeachable since there is ample authority for the view that a mere threat of action does not per se constitute duress . |
| 11 | When in July , for example , he was asked to testify for the London Library against a rating valuation , he was visibly nervous before giving his testimony ( it seems , according to Rupert Hart-Davis , that he had been awake the whole night before ) . |
| 12 | Still , he was young and she had been afraid the house would be full of only old people . |
| 13 | He said he had been living with his parents in Fazakerley , and had been sub-letting the flat to another man . |
| 14 | Now if the polymer had been crystallizable the curve of the specific volume against temperature would have shown a discontinuity at the melting point as in Figure 3.12 . |
| 15 | If he had been angry the previous day over the matter of the raid on the Bedfordshire farm , he was by now almost hysterical with rage . |
| 16 | And they 've been trendy the last two or three seasons , they 've been back with the classics have n't they ? |
| 17 | I do n't know catarrh but er I 've been thirsty the last few days |
| 18 | I 've been thirsty the past couple of days . |
| 19 | WHILE the North Wales Coast mainline has been claiming the headlines as far as steam operations have been concerned the other coastal route , the Cambrian , provided some memorable moments as well . |
| 20 | he said he 'd been through recently , oh every time I 've been through Wolverhampton that ring road 's been awful the traffic like |
| 21 | Darwin 's in effect in this passage is saying no , I do n't think that 's so at all , I think that this common pattern that all vertebrates have is simple the adaptive features of the common ancestor of the vertebrates , and I think he 's got a jolly good case . |