Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
| 2 | In some cases doctors will not only have to consider the capacity of the patient to refuse treatment , but also whether the refusal has been vitiated because it resulted not from the patient 's will , but from the will of others . |
| 3 | Then , round a corner , you find yourself in the famous archaeological dig , which has been reconstructed where it took place , with the preserved tenth century buildings re-erected where they were found . |
| 4 | However its influence to date has been limited as it covers perhaps too broad an area . |
| 5 | Traditional teaching of English literature has been attacked because it creates in the pupil a mood of passivity , an instinctive submission to authority . |
| 6 | A rare German Shepherd dog has been stolen as it stood guard at a pub . |
| 7 | So it is possible that , in the course of evolution , the preening activity of the male has been accentuated because it signals to a female that he is in a state of conflict . |
| 8 | That has been provided because it does not require planning permission . |
| 9 | Vehicle information organisation HPI , which has opened its computer register containing details of four million cars , says its switchboard has been swamped after it launched a pilot scheme in the region last month . |
| 10 | Southport 's rally in support of the miners has been postponed because it clashed with the regional rally at St Helens . |
| 11 | A claim had been made for travel outside the normal operating area , a journey which should have been authorised before it took place . |
| 12 | We can not say what the outcome of a meeting of the Defence Committee might have been , or whether the course of events would have been altered if it had met in September 1981 ; but , in our view , it could have been advantageous , and fully in line with Whitehall practice , for Ministers to have reviewed collectively at that time , or in the months immediately ahead , the current negotiating position ; the implications of the conflict between the attitudes of the Islanders and the aims of the Junta ; and the longer-term policy options in relation to the dispute . |
| 13 | I should have been consulted because it affected me too , she thought , and wrote a terse letter to him . |
| 14 | She would have been soaked if it had been water . |
| 15 | The referendums had been called after it became clear during the campaign leading up to the June Maastricht referendum that the Irish Constitution 's restrictive abortion provisions could clash with EC rights to freedom of movement and information [ see p. 38942 ] . |
| 16 | Towards the end of the same century estufas ( heated chambers ) came into use to reproduce the improvements in the wine which had been noted when it crossed the equator in the holds of ships , the changes being caused by the heat and not by the motion of the ship . |
| 17 | Michael Heseltine , the Trade and Industry Secretary , said the decision had been taken because it had become ‘ virtually impossible ’ for UK insurers to obtain reinsurance protection against ‘ terrorism-related claims ’ . |
| 18 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 19 | The show has failed to appear in any TV popularity charts and eight of the original cast of virtual unknowns have been axed since it began last summer . |