Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The news that Hanson may be preparing to bid for ICI has been met by a united front on the ICI board . |
| 2 | The World Wide Fund for Nature-Malaysia has been accused of undermining anti-logging campaigns by claiming that , in Peninsular Malaysia at least , " forest policies are among the best in the world " and " as close to sustainable as any major producing country " . |
| 3 | The main thing was that my intuitions about Alison had been confirmed . |
| 4 | After a standard for TMC has been agreed , perhaps in 1991 or 1992 , it will take many years , perhaps five to ten , until RDS-TMC receivers first reach the market . |
| 5 | In fact , as Terry Blamey said : ‘ Seventy per cent of everything written about Minogue has been made up . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps even some of his own words about Ceauşescu had been translated into the languages spoken in Romania for the edification of Ceauşescu 's subjects . |
| 7 | Moreover , for Diuma to have been consecrated bishop of the Middle Angles and Mercians ( assuming that Bede has not made an error here ) , while Penda remained a heathen , must have been tantamount to treating Penda 's territory as a northern Anglian sphere of influence . |
| 8 | One can debate whether gatherings after Constantinople or after Trent have been ecumenical , but it is a sterile argument . |
| 9 | Despite the referendum result , opponents of the change argued that the vote was only an opinion poll and had no legal force ; the original decision to name the city after Lenin having been taken by the USSR Supreme Soviet , they claimed , it could only be rescinded by its modern equivalent — the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 10 | Soon after Sandys had been appointed , Mountbatten 's immediate predecessor as First Sea Lord , Sir Roderic McGrigor , had written to warn him about Sandys ’ views . |
| 11 | Bahrain and Qatar were both members of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) , and reports emerged on July 29 that a series of GCC ministerial meetings scheduled for July had been postponed due to " rising tension " between the two countries . |
| 12 | A 500,000-tonne quota increase for Spain has been cleared . |
| 13 | From old Elizabethan days to New Elizabethan days , writing Constitutions for Ireland has been an English hobby . |
| 14 | The two trains planned for December have been cancelled and alternative dates have been , or are to be , offered . |
| 15 | The outlook for Ukraine has been more cheerful in the past few weeks . |
| 16 | Taylor pointed out that pride and eagerness to play for England had been restored these past two games . |
| 17 | The textbase STATLT holding the statutes for England has been developed and refined in a series of projects since 1980 and at the start of the project described here already provided a very detailed definition of the data structure [ 1 ] , full text-searching facilities , symbolic addressing in the manner of Figure 2 and a multi-valued attribute marg-note-xref in each text unit to record cross-references made to other parts of the text [ 23 ] . |
| 18 | Webbe 's appearances for Bridgend have been limited this season and he has only five tries so far . |
| 19 | By June 1318 the forest of Selwood in Wiltshire had been so much reduced in size that the warden 's farm of £10 a year could no longer be paid , and the Forest of Dean had been reduced by a quarter before the end of the reign . |
| 20 | By 1341 the Forest of Dean had been diminished by a quarter , and the warden 's farm was reduced from £160 to £120 . |
| 21 | The mile of shining water between him and the Forest of Dean had been devoid of a single ripple . |
| 22 | Plans for an incinerator for BSE-infected cattle in the Forest of Dean have been approved , despite strong local opposition . |
| 23 | Since 1982 , the burden of CGT has been eased by the welcome introduction of index-linking . |
| 24 | The former chairman of ICI has been offering advice to everyone from fruit sellers to factory owners . |
| 25 | Hypogammaglobulinemia and depressed IgG to surface antigens of Giardia have been suggested as factors contributing to chronic infection . |
| 26 | Six of his retainers were put to death at York on the day of his own execution , together with another eleven rebels , including Roger Clifford and John Mowbray , whose claim to the lordship of Gower had been set aside by the king in 1319 . |
| 27 | Attempts by the CP to identify the ILP with the policies of MacDonald had been particularly annoying . |
| 28 | Once the acute episode of RSI has been identified and treated , the next essential step is to prevent a recurrence . |
| 29 | Will the Home Secretary bear in mind that the rural areas of Northumberland have been especially difficult to police while the urban areas have been under great pressure and there has been a shortage of officers ? |
| 30 | Firstly , it is a family archive covering the period since the thirteenth century ; secondly , the dukes of Norfolk have been Earls Marshal and Hereditary Marshals of England for many centuries ; and finally , as the family has adhered to the old religion , many documents have an important bearing on English ( Roman ) Catholic history . |