Example sentences of "have been [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has meant heavy advertising expenditures , and the concurrent merchandising activities at point-of-sale have been necessary to ensure that the goods are promoted in-store to back up advertising . |
| 2 | For surely it can never be accepted by any normal thinking person that the bloody battles and massacres that have been necessary to establish even a tentative hold on any part of that unhappy , and anything but ‘ holy ’ , land can possibly represent a successful implementation of that promise . |
| 3 | Both French and European Community officials making their springtime visits to Washington have been anxious to dispel American anxieties . |
| 4 | The incident has horrified South African tourist officials who have been anxious to play down the murders of Julie and Elizabeth , both 30 . |
| 5 | I have been anxious to show that the nuclear family may lead not to satisfaction but to frustration and disappointment . |
| 6 | Some people have been surprised and relieved to discover that HIV has been suspected by friends and relatives who have been anxious to help , yet afraid to ask . |
| 7 | Markets have been buoyant following a thirteen percent gain on the Niki Index , it 's the largest ever one day gain , though this merely reversed last week 's dramatic falls . |
| 8 | AT&T 's managers have been disappointed to find the unions turning a clean sweep of the committees into a test of the company 's good faith . |
| 9 | That Conservatives have been keen to sustain this argument should have sounded alarm bells for scholars of Conservatism , but the only alarming thing has been a tendency to accept this concept of Conservatism almost at face value . |
| 10 | Although some airlines , like British Airways , have been keen to invest in an American carrier , it is a difficult time for any airline to go shopping . |
| 11 | They have been keen to put a distance between themselves and the negative image that still attaches to factors as ‘ lenders of last resort ’ . |
| 12 | The advent of Windows 3.1 has caused a minor shake-up in many applications — OLE and TrueType are just two of the features of the environment that software houses have been keen to take advantage of . |
| 13 | He was quick to come to the city 's defence , arguing that , what was lacking in financial support , was made up for in sheer determination , enthusiasm and innovation , ‘ We have been keen to draw out the general cultural life of Dublin ’ , he explained , ‘ much of our funding has been matched by donations from such organisations as the EEC ’ . |
| 14 | Social workers and team leaders involved in the development process have been keen to seize the opportunity to develop better assessment procedures which define assessment as extensive , needs-based , and complex . |
| 15 | In general , both sides have been keen to keep their options open . |
| 16 | The army have been keen to keep their anti-terrorist tactics secret , for obvious reasons , so why go public now ? |
| 17 | Attitudes appear to be somewhat unfavourable to ‘ welfare state ’ provision ; Newby ( 1979 ) suggests that influential local interests ( farmers and landowners ) have been keen to minimize local council house building in order to keep down rates — and through key positions on councils have been able to realize this objective . |
| 18 | The pair have been keen to work together ever since they duetted at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert in April . |
| 19 | In the past , sociologists have been content to dismiss such claims as unworthy of serious consideration for a variety of reasons , some of which have already been examined . |
| 20 | The Hellenic ideal is either patronized , or else upheld with vacuous rhetoric about " Greek harmony " , " Greek beauty " , " Greek serenity " ; while professional scholars , opting for a comfortable scepticism , have been content to pervert their subject by limiting its aim to textual and linguistic studies or the " historical " assimilation of antiquity . |
| 21 | So far we have been content to copy on the initial and final values for January 1984 and October 1985 ( y 1 and y N ) but we can do better . |
| 22 | However , others have been content to accept the message in Problems of Social Policy : for example , Peter Gosden , in his detailed study of education in the war , cites Titmuss as the authoritative source on the social consequences of evacuation ; likewise , Raynes Minns concludes that the revelations of the children 's condition ‘ made headlines , and once again , as in 1914 , when the physical condition of army recruits was found to be so poor , war forced a British government to recognise the extremes of poverty and neglect that survived in our cities , and eventually to act by expanding our welfare services ’ . |
| 23 | Mining companies all over the world set up consortia to study ways of mining the manganese nodules on the floor of the deep oceans , but have been unwilling to proceed until the world can agree on laws to cover deep sea mining . |
| 24 | Although you have been unwilling to do anything about your feelings of dissatisfaction , today is the time for less talk and more action on your part . |
| 25 | Western academic Sovietologists have gravitated to the opposite pole : they have been unwilling to question the professions of good faith repeatedly made by Communist leaders . |
| 26 | Since then firms have been unwilling to expand their long-term debt , but have preferred to borrow from banks , often on a much shorter-term basis . |
| 27 | Soviet officials have been unwilling to specify the nature or duration of Soviet-constructed military installations in Afghanistan . |
| 28 | I freely admit that , following that , the Government have been unwilling to introduce other proposals because they feel that they would have to be enforceable , workable and acceptable to a majority of hon. Members . |
| 29 | President Walesa has been unable to form a stable government , usually because one or more of the coalition partners have been unwilling to share responsibility for unpopular economic policies . |
| 30 | Drafix CAD is an MS-DOS based CAD drawing package that has long been the choice of users who have been unwilling to pay the price demanded for the industry standard — AutoCad . |