Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The body was badly decomposed and had been in the water for a long time . |
| 2 | We sincerely hope that 's been of use to you . |
| 3 | This rumour was started the day after the dam was built and has been in circulation ever since . |
| 4 | Make and have are at the top of the binding hierarchy and take the " highly non-verbal " bare infinitive ; order is lower on the scale and takes the to infinitive ; next comes insist , which is followed by a subordinate clause containing a finite subjunctive form , and then think , construed with a subordinate clause in the indicative . |
| 5 | It also puts money into the Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association which is wholly involved and has been for the last two years in trying to get large scale erm strategic inward investment into the county , and erm it is a erm awkwardness I think that it 's best to be open about that the planning policy of the county is out of tune with the day factor activities of the economic development side of the of the county council . |
| 6 | Nine tenths of the Leicester ring road is finished and has been for some years . |
| 7 | Economically , of course , it had never ceased and had been to both countries ' benefit . |
| 8 | In those patients who are identified as having been at risk of sudden death a number of therapeutic options should be considered . |
| 9 | It was n't Caspar that had been after the lambs . |
| 10 | In addition , with loans from private collectors as well as museums in Germany and abroad , thirty-eight out of the thirty-nine surviving snuff boxes recorded as having been in the possession of Frederick the Great have been assembled . |
| 11 | If , therefore , a person occupies or uses land by licence of the owner with the paper title and his licence has not been duly determined , he can not be treated as having been in " adverse possession " … |
| 12 | Canon Radford added : ‘ The Archbishop of Canterbury has been informed and has been in touch with Bishop Peter . |
| 13 | The agent , a good one , reported that the affair was n't quite as dramatic as first accounts had suggested and had been on a far smaller scale , but that students had definitely been involved and at least one of them appeared badly hurt . |
| 14 | Detailing the " ruthless " abuse of human rights against opponents of the regime , the report said that many executions were officially described as having been for drug-trafficking offences , adding that prisoners had no recourse to legal counsel or right to appeal . |
| 15 | At a meeting on 1 September , the " Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union " was described as having been in existence for some nine weeks . |