Example sentences of "[noun] have [pron] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Asdex tokamak at Garching in West Germany has what is known as a ‘ poloidal divertor ’ and holds the record for the duration of a plasma in a tokamak — Asdex has sustained its plasma for 10 seconds . |
| 2 | Not even the same matches with the same results would have engendered anything like the same degree of atmosphere or emotion had it been staged at a neutral venue , which is what the situation would be in most years if the one or two weeks idea was adopted . |
| 3 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 4 | She says that she she lives in a on the estate on the outskirts of Mansfield have you been checking around that area ? |
| 5 | The Royal Navy 's existing modern warships have what is known as a citadel . |
| 6 | Stuart , Gavin Have you been mistaken for Oxford fans yet ? |
| 7 | " What sort of ideas have you been putting into his head , woman ? " |
| 8 | Instituted in order to prevent abuse by ‘ filibusters ’ , this ‘ guillotine ’ procedure has itself been abused by governments so as to curtail genuine and purposeful opposition . |
| 9 | By the time one gets to Derrida , the latest and youngest of the sequence , Nietzsche 's myth of art has itself been dissolved by Derrida 's pervasive irony : ‘ If Nietzsche is an ironic mythmaker , Derrida seems only ironic : the radicality of his irony undermines any pretension to myth . |
| 10 | For them , the person of good character has what is said to be the imagination to live tranquilly , or literally ‘ the wizardry to live tranquilly ’ ( mariya adiunaku ) . |
| 11 | Four years in the making , the three-day event had itself been organised by a team of 15 people based in the US , Hong Kong , South Africa , Brussels , Leeds and Manchester , all communicating by electronic mail ( so-called ‘ e-mail ’ , in which messages typed into a personal computer are sent by telephone line to a big , central computer that stores them until they are called up by one or more addressees using their own computers ) . |
| 12 | What the devil have you been doing to yourself ? |
| 13 | In contrast to the Merger Regulation , that only subjects to EC scrutiny mergers having what is known as a ‘ Community dimension , and exceeding a certain threshold , the proposed Directive will apply to any general bid for the shares of any public company in a member state , regardless of the origin of the bid . |
| 14 | In what ways has it been engendered in Dunrossness ? |
| 15 | In consequence , there has been the pretence that a single perspective grounded in the nineteenth century can capture the essentials of things today , and so constitutional theory has itself been frozen in a way that has confined the parameters of constitutional debate . |
| 16 | So when we went to Stylus Records and Telstar you know they were more than than happy to have because they seemed but I think that at at the start had we been looking for somebody here to take us over probably it would never have happened . |
| 17 | and I think we must recognise that it is only that many of the questions and questionnaire had they been displayed of what they wanted to propose . |
| 18 | This is probably why Blakemore would have been given a licence had one been needed under previous legislation . |
| 19 | This afternoon , however , she was too much perturbed in her mind to trouble about such things , and she rounded the corner at a run which would have spelt disaster had anyone been coming in the opposite direction . |
| 20 | The FLNC had itself been denounced by rival movements , Resistenza , Accolta Naziunali Corsa ( ANC ) and the Union du Peuple Corse ( UPC ) , over its imposition of a " revolution tax " extorted from companies and wealthy individuals . |
| 21 | What the hell have you been doing down there ? ’ |
| 22 | Well how many weeks Stuart have we been talking in here about bre You would n't know because you have n't been in here . |
| 23 | A further significant feature is that the ordinary prudent man standard has itself been applied in such a way as to leave the director 's duty of care with little content . |
| 24 | The Headmaster , Mr. E.J. Russ had himself been taught at the school in the eighteen-nineties — my father had been one of his contemporaries . |
| 25 | This is not an uncommon occurrence because birds of prey have what is known as ‘ tunnel vision ’ — which means that although they can focus with deadly accuracy on the prey straight in front of them , they have difficulty seeing anything outside that direct line of sight . |
| 26 | How many times have you been walking with someone who does that all the time , regardless of climatic considerations , and wanted to deliver a rabbit punch to the back of their neck when they stop for the tenth time that day and begin the ponderous unclipping of their rucksack ? |
| 27 | What on earth had she been thinking of ? |
| 28 | ‘ What on earth have you been doing to these ? ’ |
| 29 | What on earth have you been doing out there ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , but how many of these wonderfully high-paid jobs have you been offered over the past eighteen months ? ’ |