Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps in one sense it does not matter that he ignored the sometimes vandalistic assaults on the gospel texts by Form-critics and Redaction-critics ; just as it could be seen not to matter that the school of philosophy in which he was reared had been rendered more or less obsolete by the man who — in the year that Lewis was writing The Problem of Pain — had become a professor of philosophy at Cambridge : Ludwig Wittgenstein . |
| 2 | He was said to have been charged with misusing state funds and with abuse of power . |
| 3 | ‘ I picked up my teeth from the pitch and wanted to play on , but a dental consultant from the crowd advised me to have them put back as soon as possible ’ — JAMES CHANDLER ( Bedford wing ) after the Pilkington Cup home defeat by Harlequins when he was alleged to have been punched by an England flanker . |
| 4 | External Affairs Minister Madhavsinh Solanki visited Japan on Jan. 19-24 where he was reported to have been warned that further Japanese economic assistance would depend on India 's adherence to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) . |
| 5 | His extensive private collection was purchased by the Institution after his death , with some of his papers , but no trace was found of the manuscripts of a supplement to A Natural History of the Crinoidea and a major account of the corals on which he was known to have been working . |
| 6 | In days of old , he was thought to have been ridden by one of the Foawr , fabled giants who threw stones at the earth as they passed overhead . |