Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The more serious the violation by the police and the less serious the charge the more likely it is that the evidence will be inadmissible , though there are occasions in Scotland where crucial evidence has been struck out in serious cases which include murder .
2 The free volume concept has been touched on in previous sections but it is instructive now to consider this idea more closely and to draw together the various points alluded to earlier .
3 Not only in P P G seven but as has been pointed out in other erm guidance notes such as four erm and three .
4 At court [ in the 17805 ] , where one is more constrained by etiquette , and old habits die hard , use of the baton has been kept up in grand ceremonial concerts .
5 The Auditing Practices Board has issued a Practice Note for Lloyd 's auditors , which has been drawn up in close cooperation with the insurance market .
6 Although the National Certificate , with its competence-based , internally-assessed modules , has almost become part of the educational establishment now , we should not forget that Scotland led the way in the development of this kind of award and our experience has been drawn on in subsequent moves to make all Britain 's vocational qualifications modular and competence-based .
7 Clearly , in order to save some money , the carousel has been set up in downtown Oslo , about ten kilometres away .
8 The contract of supply must be a complete agreement ( see Scammell and Nephew Ltd v Ouston [ 1941 ] AC 251 ) , although this does not necessarily mean that every part of the contract has been worked out in meticulous detail .
9 ( We shall also take Halliday 's model as our example of pluralism , because its application to language , and in particular to grammar , has been worked out in considerable detail . )
10 This categorisation could have been carried out in other ways , and other purposes seen here as secondary could have been given greater prominence .
11 The underlying Lower Limestone Shale is also interpreted as a shallow water sequence , but some beds are believed to have been laid down in poorly aerated conditions ( George 1958 ) and may therefore contain source material .
12 The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it .
13 In Smolensk guberniia a long list of bridges , points , and crossings had been blown up in military action .
14 The well-known story of Curzon 's Tuesday summons from Montacute to London , of his confident and much-photographed arrival , first at Paddington Station and then at Carlton House Terrace , followed by the crushing blow delivered to him that afternoon when Stamfordham called at his house and told him Baldwin was to be Prime Minister , was not therefore a sudden snatching from his hands of the steadily earned and well-deserved prize , but more the last rather overdramatized act of a tragi-comedy which had been played out in varying forms since his appointment as Viceroy of India in 1898 .
15 In fact it looked as if the trees had been cut down in early Victorian times .
16 My name had been bandied about in recent weeks , ever since the ban was reduced by two years .
17 The Ford car plant had been shut down in late July after striking metalworkers ransacked the plant .
18 ‘ The Commitments ’ , with an all Irish cast and based on a book by Roddy Doyle , would be perceived here as an Irish film , but director Alan Parker is English , the screenwriters were British , the costumes were designed and made in England ( to look like they had been picked up in second-hand shops in Dublin ) and , perhaps more significantly , the film was financed with American and British money .
19 Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years .
20 However , in April 1990 the President of the World Bank , Barber Conable , said that economic development had been held back in sub-Saharan African countries by the weakness of their political systems , nepotism and corruption .
21 He had been working since the 1820s on his theory that ‘ grand geometrical lines ’ had been laid out in ancient times across the country and that these were indicated by old boundaries and markers .
22 Anyway , the young woman on the other end of the machine survived with daunting ease and told him that it was customary to charge interest on the whole month 's credit , unless it had been paid off in full .
23 If all were successful the government would be giving ‘ substantially ’ more than the measly £10m that had been paid out in previous years .
24 A joint government and opposition commission had been set up in late September with the aim of preventing a repeat of the first-round chaos ; however , two opposition parties withdrew from the commission on Oct. 11 .
25 In the sunken garden , orange snapdragons and pink asters , raised in the sheltered nursery beds , had been set out in lurid masses .
26 The devout and cultured Margaret had been brought up in Anglo-Norman ways and persuaded her husband to speak English rather than Gaelic .
27 In the first place , they had been brought up in different environments .
28 The sauce from Mr Bishop 's tomato ketchup bottles had been emptied out in great red gobs or smeared over the cupboards .
29 This was a welcome change from the approach of the House of Lords majority in Home Office v Harman , decided a few years earlier , which held that a solicitor committed contempt by showing the other side 's private documents to a journalist after they had been read out in open court .
30 Reports that reached Amnesty International in September and October indicated that more than 2,000 people , many of them civilians , have been rounded up in southern cities and towns and transferred to unknown destinations .
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