Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [noun] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | For generations my family have been staunch Conservatives , but I am afraid my immediate family will no longer support a Government which cares little about animal welfare . |
| 2 | In ordinary spoken discourse the endless cycle of encoding-decoding-encoding may be terminated by an action , as when for instance I say , ‘ The door is open ’ and you say , ‘ Do you mean you would like me to shut it ? ’ and I say , ‘ If you do n't mind ’ , and you shut the door , we may be satisfied that at a certain level my meaning has been understood . |
| 3 | So far in this chapter my argument has been that by entirely removing the Devil from the Christian world-view , or simply silencing him by demythologising him away a la Bultmann , we undercut the gospel as divine drama . |
| 4 | For months its organizers had been pestering me to turn up . |
| 5 | She released her breath , and with it went the tension her body had been locked in . |
| 6 | The manners which Topaz had been taught at the convent were good enough as a basis for acceptable behaviour , but she soon discovered that she had a great deal more to learn , and would also have to adopt a whole new set of values . |
| 7 | While we are on the subject of the amount paid in business rates , can the Minister tell us whether shops whose rates have been assessed on the basis of six-day or even five-and-a-half-day trading will have their rateable values reassessed on the basis of seven-day trading ? |
| 8 | Avedis Donabedian , an American pioneer of quality assurance in health care in the United States whose work has been very influential in the United Kingdom , modelled quality as a dynamic relationship between structure , process and outcomes . |
| 9 | Prime Minister William Gladstone is another well-known figure whose speeches have been ‘ discovered ’ from time to time recorded on cylinders . |
| 10 | The industry figure whose achievements have been especially outstanding within his or her operational sphere |
| 11 | For Liesl whose mother had been able to escape to this country , a battle royal developed between her parent and her foster parent . |
| 12 | Look out , too , for clocked cars whose odometers have been turned back . |
| 13 | This was to gather under the very roof of Darlington Hall the most influential of the gentlemen whose support had been won with a view to conducting an ‘ unofficial ’ international conference — a conference that would discuss the means by which the harshest terms of the Versailles treaty could be revised . |
| 14 | ‘ Take me to ’ — Chesarynth fumbled with saying the words whose symbols had been so clear-'Kärtnerstrasse seventeen . |
| 15 | More is being covered by ‘ definitions ’ than the obvious point that hypotheses need to be clearly stated in words whose meaning has been defined . |
| 16 | Using this process we can personalise the letter to every adviser whose details have been recorded on our agency records . |
| 17 | Awife whose solicitors have been negligent in negotiating a financial settlement in her divorce proceedings is entitled to damages against the solicitors . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , however , a good many East Indiamen were unable to enter the Bay of Bengal , which was effectively restricted to vessels whose bottoms had been plated with copper to prevent damage from marine worms . |
| 19 | In some circumstances , the course of the trial will be such that a witness whose affidavit has been received will after all be required to attend for cross-examination ; this applies no less to witnesses abroad as to those within the jurisdiction . |
| 20 | Take the example of Italy , where proportional representation has created permanent instability , with a series of coalition governments that have had to depend on several minor parties whose influence has been out of all proportion to their success in the polls . |
| 21 | We use this way in to stop people stealing what gear we have.Andy has been scratching around for a regular roof over his head for a year , ever since he lost his job and his home burned down in a fire . |
| 22 | During the early years of the new century , Osborn and his colleagues at the American Museum of Natural History created striking displays of the great dinosaurs whose remains had been unearthed in the west , solving the complex technical problems involved in reconstructing the skeletons of such exotic beasts . |
| 23 | 3.22 In practice , the distinction between these two kinds of damages is not altogether clear , although in theory exemplary damages are to punish a defendant whose conduct has been outrageous or scandalous , and aggravated damages are to compensate the plaintiff for any aggravated harm done to him , such as injury to his feelings , as a result of the special circumstances of the case . |
| 24 | When Cripps had abandoned the Unity Campaign to support the Labour Party 's Immediate Programme his action had been fully endorsed by the Communist Party . |
| 25 | As a result his losses have been minor compared with some other big property companies . |
| 26 | Haines himself admitted that as an outsider his preconception had been that the Jockey Club was ‘ An old-fashioned , creaking organisation of part-timers . ’ |
| 27 | She wished that she could ask David what Anthony had been talking about , but she obviously could not . |
| 28 | In the past few months your vehicles have been involved in a number of accidents and one person has been killed . |
| 29 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 30 | Turning to the dramatic developments in East European countries , the Labour leader warned that the taste of freedom their people had been yearning for would turn sour unless they gained material advancement . |