Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And when you and your royal half-brother have been sucked dry of every drop of accursed wolfseed by the Frost Giantess ; when you have been deprived of every drop that might bear fruit in some unknown womb and create another wolfcreatury , I shall give you both to the Soul Eaters . |
| 2 | Michael Heseltine had his own way at the Department of the Environment and will continue to do so at Trade and Industry , where supporters of his during the leadership contest have been given junior positions . |
| 3 | The slabs of rock have been worn smooth like well-used soap . |
| 4 | ‘ Fan have been growing bored with the sex and drugs and rock and roll syndrome . |
| 5 | OFFICIALS of an apparently doomed workingmen 's club have been given fresh hope that it could survive . |
| 6 | Half of the retention would be released upon the completion of the work by the sub-contractor and the balance at the end of the ’ contract ’ maintenance period , provided that all defects in the subcontractor 's work have been made good . |
| 7 | Trial reintroductions of dormice have been made possible by the imaginative captive-breeding programmes of Dot Heaton at Windsor Safari Park . |
| 8 | It is enough to say that , having adopted the character of Oliver Twist , I have been fortunate in meeting with a kindlier and less formidable response than he ; and while anyone who knows the editor 's capabilities must realise that it is not beyond his powers to write a further introduction of the same delight as that preceding Volume II , it would be unreasonable to complain that in his assessment of the situation the needs of prompt publication have been put first . |
| 9 | The process of management and the functions of management have been analysed many times in various ways by different writers , who have taken the view that : |
| 10 | In ( b ) to date only certain shapes of inclusion have been considered such as spheres , ellipsoids , rods and discs . |
| 11 | Main picture Flagstones in the hall have been worn smooth by years of hobnail boots . |
| 12 | About forty helium balloons that materialised from nowhere with this American girl have been wound hard up into the window , and judder maniacally together in the wind . |
| 13 | Recently East Hampshire District Council have been making some preliminary interviews of local applicants . |
| 14 | Even independently of each other the topics of dementia and care at home have been arousing enormous interest , not only among elderly people in need of care or support and among their relatives and friends , but also among service-providers , policymakers and planners . |
| 15 | In brief , the four regions of the South have been absorbing all the ( admittedly rather limited ) national increase in population and have been pulling in people from the rest of Britain . |
| 16 | The Tomorrow 's World team have been following day-to-day life at her Framlingham home and will be filming the operation . |
| 17 | The movement into private care has been accentuated by tight control of local authority expenditure at a time when numbers of people have been ‘ deinstitutionalised ’ from psychiatric and psycho-geriatric units , and when people from an ageing population have been seeking residential care for the first time . |
| 18 | Town have been getting stronger and wiser by the week … they could do it against Blackburn … |
| 19 | The pre-civilisation human family , in existence before any kind of personal care replaced the primitive laws of survival , would , by its very nature have been spared many of the divisive burdens which break up modern family life . |
| 20 | Two workers at the Cockfield site have been made redundant but other employees have been transferred to the installation team . |
| 21 | THE DEAD PLANET have been chalked next to a clock-face . |
| 22 | THE DARLINGTON Railway Preservation Group have been making good progress on their principal asset Standard 2MT Mogul No 78018 . |
| 23 | Cup odds FOOTBALL : Liverpool and Nottingham Forest have been made 11–4 favourites for the FA Cup by William Hill who then offer 7–2 Chelsea , 15–1 Villa , 111 Norwich and Southampton , 16–1 West Ham , 25–1 Middlesbrough , 40–1 Portsmouth , 50–1 Sunderland , 80–1 Ipswich , 150–1 Bolton . |
| 24 | The ideas behind the proposal for the working time directive have been proved wrong in Sweden . ’ |
| 25 | General secretary of the Society Kate Ashbrook argues that the change of mind shows that ‘ The predictions , promises and guarantees given at the inquiry have been proved wrong . |
| 26 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 27 | Requests for a postdoctoral fellow and for a technician have been refused two , and three times , respectively . |
| 28 | Restrictions on water use have been imposed this month in areas of the south and east of the country , which is experiencing the worst drought this century . |
| 29 | Considerable quantities of Ecstasy and LSD have been seized this year from buses and cars along the Derry-Donegal border . |
| 30 | Screams from a nearby interrogation block have been heard loud and clear at the desk of the duty sergeant at Castlereagh without causing anyone to intervene to stop the maltreatment . |