Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] have be [vb pp] " 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 | 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decision to name the city after Lenin having been taken by the USSR Supreme Soviet , they claimed , it could only be rescinded by its modern equivalent — the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A 500,000-tonne quota increase for Spain has been cleared . |
| 12 | The two trains planned for December have been cancelled and alternative dates have been , or are to be , offered . |
| 13 | Taylor pointed out that pride and eagerness to play for England had been restored these past two games . |
| 14 | 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 ] . |
| 15 | Webbe 's appearances for Bridgend have been limited this season and he has only five tries so far . |
| 16 | By 1341 the Forest of Dean had been diminished by a quarter , and the warden 's farm was reduced from £160 to £120 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Plans for an incinerator for BSE-infected cattle in the Forest of Dean have been approved , despite strong local opposition . |
| 19 | Since 1982 , the burden of CGT has been eased by the welcome introduction of index-linking . |
| 20 | Hypogammaglobulinemia and depressed IgG to surface antigens of Giardia have been suggested as factors contributing to chronic infection . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Once the acute episode of RSI has been identified and treated , the next essential step is to prevent a recurrence . |
| 23 | Others still detained at the end of March had been held for almost 10 years . |
| 24 | The teacher was furious that the photograph taken in her new school on the outskirts of Middlesbrough had been used for political purposes . |
| 25 | PLANS for a superstore on the outskirts of Middlesbrough have been opposed by Cleveland planning councillors . |
| 26 | A SUPERSTORE development on the outskirts of Middlesbrough has been opposed by Cleveland planning officials . |
| 27 | A PLAN to build executive-style houses in an upmarket suburb of Middlesbrough has been refused for the second time . |
| 28 | A SICILIAN accused of forming a Mafia cell in the Alpine city of Grenoble has been expelled to Italy . |
| 29 | The genuineness of the Ring of Minos has been questioned by Nilsson , but now that it is lost , allegedly buried somewhere in the garden of Nicolaos Pollakis , the priest of Fortetsa , who for a time shortly after its discovery was its owner , the question will probably never be resolved ( Warren 1982 ) . |
| 30 | Plessey and the biggest bit of Ferranti have been swallowed by GEC ; Racal appears to be retreating from the market ; Thorn EMI last year put its defence business up for sale . |