Example sentences of "[vb base] have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historically change has been limited in extent since traditional lore and experience play a greater part in extensive systems . |
| 2 | Every stroke they make has been monitored . |
| 3 | Since make has been shown to evoke the idea of simply producing an effect , this explains why have always suggests a disposition to comply , whereas make does not . |
| 4 | In this case , Madeline Usher has been buried in the family vault below the house , supposedly dead . |
| 5 | As for Annie Murphy , whose life the Irish papers say has been threatened , if she returns , Mr Hudson felt she had showed great courage . |
| 6 | Some of what they found has been reclaimed by its owners but there 's plenty left . |
| 7 | A MAN posing as a worker for the charity War on Want has been taking money from unsuspecting people in the Balmoral area . |
| 8 | Civil disobedience to obtain what the voters want has been used most effectively in poll tax demonstrations and non-payment campaigns . |
| 9 | The techniques referred to in the revised manual appear to have been developed particularly after the inner-city riots of 1981 . |
| 10 | A civilization that never invented the wheel was automatically precluded from inventing the mechanical clock , but in fact neither the sundial nor the water-clock appear to have been developed by the Maya for measuring the passage of time . |
| 11 | This is not to suggest that all the anti-Hanoverian crowds were encouraged from above ; as Nicholas Rogers has shown , patrician involvement seems to have become less common after the early stages of unrest , and increasingly the riots in most areas appear to have been led from below by more lowly types . |
| 12 | It was clearly a site of some importance and it is not impossible that Rochester was the centre of one of the four Kentish kingdoms mentioned by Caesar , although by the time of Claudius ' invasion these kingdoms appear to have been united under one ruler . |
| 13 | Its most likely period of operation is between 300 and 325 , whereafter some of its craftsmen appear to have been employed at Withington , and . |
| 14 | Some of those qualities appear to have been inherited by Frederick 's youngest son Herbert and , as already mentioned , some of them may have been present in Frederick 's uncle William . |
| 15 | Although there were no mechanical clocks in antiquity , mechanical models appear to have been constructed to reproduce the relative motions of the heavenly bodies . |
| 16 | At most sites , strip buildings appear to have been constructed as independent entities , separated from their neighbours by either alleys or narrow lanes . |
| 17 | The sudden influx of sugar also caused some temporary problems : ‘ Russian storage facilities for Cuba 's raw sugar appear to have been strained to the point that some sugar spoiled . |
| 18 | Both factors appear to have been operating ; Chapter Four has shown the greater volume of major services ( such as home help and day centres ) being used by sample members in Newham . |
| 19 | The idea has been taken up by the British Library , and by Scottish university libraries , though no dramatic results appear to have been registered so far as acquisition practice is concerned . |
| 20 | These territories appear to have been breaking free from West Saxon domination and it may be that Ine 's weakening hold on Surrey at this time reflects either renewed Kentish influence in the area or a stage in the growth of the power of Aethelbald . |
| 21 | ‘ The minds of many of these young offenders appear to have been numbed by greed and indifference to violence ’ , asserted one MP as he condemned ‘ the parents , indifferent to their children and utterly without social conscience ’ . |
| 22 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 23 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 24 | Perambulations which appear to have been made pursuant to these instructions are extant for the counties of Buckingham , Cumberland , Huntingdon , Oxford , Shropshire , Yorkshire and Wiltshire . |
| 25 | Detailed estimates of the costs of improvement of the ‘ Leicester Line ’ , including wide locks at Foxton and Watford appear to have been made in 1888 , and these indicated a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 26 | Nevertheless great advances appear to have been made without such theory … |
| 27 | About this time licence was obtained to prospect in the Seathwaite and Dunnerdale region but no great discoveries appear to have been made . |
| 28 | I appear to have been writing for years , and yet not one sentence has been completed . |
| 29 | These conclusions appear to have been replicated by York ( 1989 ) , who finds that community workers express more satisfaction and effectiveness in their short-term projects , which are more directive and task-oriented , than in their long-term projects . |
| 30 | The principal aim of this study will be to assess the extent to which police conduct and decision making in a number of areas appear to have been influenced by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act ( 1984 ) . |