Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [adj] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ … ] The Revolutionary Left since Marx 's time has normally been reluctant to specify in any great detail the nature of the society it seeks to create . |
| 2 | Since 1988 the Crown has also been able to appeal in certain circumstances against lenient sentences . |
| 3 | The talks had begun on Aug. 1 , having originally been due to start in mid-July . |
| 4 | In September 1989 , it was reported that the Home Secretary had begun a series of private discussions with public officials including the Lord Chancellor , the Lord Chief Justice ( who had hitherto been reluctant to participate in such discussions lest they were seen as prejudicing judicial independence ) and the senior Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 5 | All they had ever been able to do in the face of violence was to bend to it . |
| 6 | Gutiérrez had reportedly been due to testify in court that his orders to assassinate Jaramillo had come from Pablo Escobar . |
| 7 | The Anglican gentry of Cheshire , who had allegedly been ready to rise in August , narrowly voted not to join the rebellion in the north . |
| 8 | If Eva had any regrets it was that her mother had never been able to put in words just how much she obviously meant to her , and that there had not been more time to spend with her parents over the years . |
| 9 | He had never been able to take in the fact that she was a fifteen-year-old girl . |
| 10 | Scientists themselves have always been able to work in laboratories during the week , and to pray in places of worship at the week-end , by accepting the separation of the domains . |