Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , all the groups to whom the hon. Gentleman has referred were hit much harder by the policies of high taxation and raging inflation over which the Labour Government presided . |
| 2 | What I confirmed in answer to the question to which the hon. Gentleman has referred was that we had put in place measures to deal with the problems arising from repossession . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman should bear in mind that each of the two cases to which he has referred was decided by the trial judge on the basis of medical evidence , including independent medical evidence . |
| 4 | One of the biggest , and most satisfying , projects has organised was the roof work in Gallery 18 — Victorian Engineering . |
| 5 | Until now , the question of Mary 's personal behaviour has been all-important ; what has mattered was to establish her guilt or innocence , as if that would be the end of the story . |
| 6 | Does he agree that in choosing the alternative route the Secretary of State for Transport was second guessing and ignoring the possibility that an environmental assessment would conclude that the general route that he has selected was as inappropriate as the one from which the hon. Gentleman thinks his constituents would suffer ? |
| 7 | This defence will apply where the damage which the plaintiff has suffered was caused partly by his own fault and partly by the fault of the defendant . |
| 8 | Wilko has said that everything he and the club has done was always with Strachan beside him , or just behind . |
| 9 | The point that my hon. Friend has made was graphically illustrated by the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) , who is reported as having said that if Labour were to introduce its devolution plans he could not act as Secretary of State for Health for England and Wales . |
| 10 | The information required will be — the full names of the ceased person , and any other names that they have been known by , including the maiden surname of a woman who has been married ; their date and place of birth ; their recent occupation , and their husband 's full name and occupation , if the person who has died was a married woman . |
| 11 | Mill manager , informs us that if all the bags that has packed were laid end to end they would reach to Moscow ! |
| 12 | So The Eagle Has Landed was born . |
| 13 | The rigours of the most demanding season the game has known were etched on Moore 's face . |
| 14 | I walked through Dublin in nineteen seventy four in May , the worst single atrocity that has happened was the bombing of Dublin . |
| 15 | The coffin of the 25-year-old whom the IRA has admitted was one of its ‘ volunteers ’ was draped in the Irish tricolour with beret and gloves on top . |
| 16 | This means not only avoiding the use of words which might amount to a resignation on your part , but also checking whether words that apparently mean that your job has ended were actually intended to have that effect . |
| 17 | The special niche Bankers Books has established was enhanced by the publication of its catalogue which led to a significant increase in sales late in the year and a year end profit of £79,000 . |
| 18 | He knows the answer very well : the instance that he has mentioned was a matter for the Ministry of Defence , which looked further into the matter and decided not to pursue it . |
| 19 | Erm and one of the things I could 've done was to em er become a salaried employee of my own company which was a limited company but I paid myself as a consultant . |
| 20 | All reports I 'd heard were that Sterland would be fit by now . |
| 21 | And he frankly admitted to being obsessed with her sex — some of the talk she 'd heard was of cradle-snatching ; some of death-bed fucks — he played no favourites . |
| 22 | It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’ |
| 23 | Because the noise she 'd heard was n't Rohan 's arrival at all . |
| 24 | The cushions I was lying on were plastic-covered , but they were adorably comfortable since all I 'd expected was a paving slab . |
| 25 | The future she 'd visualized was silly , puppies and a row of kennels and being alone . |
| 26 | ‘ Not then , no , because the scheme we 'd concocted was that my ‘ husband ’ was a soldier , who 'd died abroad , and everyone would , hopefully , have continued to believe it , if Phena had n't flounced off to England to discover her roots ! |
| 27 | He could n't distinguish her from the darkness , but any lingering doubt that she might belong to the dream from which he 'd risen was dispatched as her hand went from his mouth to his bare chest . |
| 28 | One of our friends that we 'd met were there , they 'd been there a couple of weeks |
| 29 | It was close enough to use the under-arm style , and the pebbles I 'd selected were all of roughly the same size , so my fire was very accurate : four shots within splashing distance and a fifth which smashed the neck off the bottle . |
| 30 | And she said that 's all she 'd made was five phone calls . |