Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] have been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This particular Saturday I 'd been allowed — for the first time — to stay at home alone . |
| 2 | They were filming at Bloomwater , a stately home in Berkshire which had been built by Sir Henry Manceville , an eccentric nobleman , in 1780 . |
| 3 | Almost 69 per cent of the electorate of the Republic of Belau ( formerly Palau — see p. 30756 ) took part on Feb. 6 in a seventh referendum on the issue of the country 's compact of free association with the United States which had been negotiated in 1982 . |
| 4 | I have a bogus copy of Hugh Brogan 's History of the United States which has been turned into a fireproof combination lock safe , but that was a professional job done by my mate Lenny the Lathe in return for a favour . |
| 5 | International Law so far as this Court is concerned , is the body of doctrine regarding the international rights and duties of States which has been adopted and made part of the Law of Scotland . |
| 6 | Republican candidate Thomas Ewing on July 2 secure election to the House of Representatives seat for Illinois which had been left vacant by the appointment , confirmed in March , of Edward Madigan as Secretary for Agriculture . |
| 7 | In his last visit to North Korea , Ceauşescu had been able to see the thirty-storey concrete pyramid in the centre of Pyongyang which had been built under the inspiration of the Dear Leader , Kim Jong Il ( albeit from an original idea by George Orwell ) . |
| 8 | The plan is in the form of a Greek cross with arms of equal length and it is based upon the design of the famous Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople which had been begun by Constantine and rebuilt by Justinian but which was destroyed in 1463 . |
| 9 | On the other side of the Strada Stirbei Voda in the west of central Bucharest which has been converted from a charming street into a new boulevard , almost opposite the old and soon to be redundant opera-house , lies the huge shell of the new National Museum of Romanian History . |
| 10 | The Mercedes which had been promised to take them to All Saints ' Church , Deganwy , for the wedding on Saturday was sold . |
| 11 | Mr Goddard , a former mayor of Phoenix who had been expected to win the November race easily , first lowered the tone by comparing Mr Symington to Charles Keating , the financier at the heart of the Lincoln Savings and Loan disaster . |
| 12 | It may well be that he took the place of Thomas Hitchcock who had been apprenticed to the same master nine years previously . |
| 13 | The meeting , originally scheduled for Feb. 11-13 [ see p. 37945 ] , was jointly announced by Bush and Gorbachev on July 17 when they met in London during a brief visit by Gorbachev who had been invited to meet assembled heads of the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) countries [ see pp. 38321-22 ] . |
| 14 | However such an important decision was not to be taken hastily , Kay who has been associated with the Society since its inception has agreed to fill this position on a temporary basis . |
| 15 | Bootle and Oxton players are unavailable for the match in which Liverpool 's Andy McDowell comes in for Barry Metcalf who has been picked for the Wales side against Dorset . |
| 16 | Castile itself had been named after the fortresses built along the border between Christian and Moslem Spain , and essentially those who held these castles held the greatest degree of control over the lands on either side . |
| 17 | The Times of India reported the case of a striptease artiste in the coastal resort of Goa who had been sued by the management of the five-star Hotel Kalimpong , when she refused to undress during her performance at the hotel restaurant one evening . |
| 18 | The former is the voice of sound , sensible England , the latter is Spenser who had been granted land in county Cork in 1588 . |
| 19 | Among changes to the Council of State Secretaries [ see p. 38994 for previous government changes ] Mohammed Lamin Kamara became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , replacing Ahmed Ramadan — Dumbuya who had been dismissed on Oct. 30 , . |
| 20 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
| 21 | The Swiss Federal Tribunal ( supreme court ) issued a ruling on Dec. 27 , 1990 , which opened the way for the Philippines government to recover assets embezzled by ex-President Ferdinand Marcos which had been secreted in Swiss bank accounts . |
| 22 | The theatre was built on the site of the old church of Santa Maria della Scala which had been founded in 1381 by Beatrice della Scala , wife of Bernabo Visconti . |
| 23 | The new government has also moved to scrap school textbooks developed under the Sandinistas and has imported textbooks from Costa Rica which had been produced with USAID assistance . |
| 24 | The king married Philippa to Edmund Mortimer Earl of March in 1368 , and thus the earl came to possess not only the Mortimer family lands in the Welsh March which had been restored to his father in 1354 , but also the Clare lordship of Usk , the Clare lands in Dorset , Somerset and East Anglia , and the de Burgh earldom of Ulster . |
| 25 | For instance , among the 22 Arg residues 19 are coded by AGA , 1 by AGG , CGT and CGC , the codons CGA and CGG being not used at all ; furthermore , triplets ending in A or T are preferred to those ending in C or G. This picture was confirmed when the analysis was extended to the eleven genes from S.solfataricus which have been sequenced so far , whereas the comparison with the codon usage by the corresponding genes in Escherichia coli and rat liver showed a completely different pattern ( 7 ) . |
| 26 | It also sold the existing warehouse at Acton which has been under-used since the main London warehouse has come into operation . |
| 27 | And Haydn himself had been influenced by C P E Bach . |
| 28 | Thank you for your letter inviting comment from the Parish Council on the management of the Forest of Bowland AONB which has been passed round the members of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council . |
| 29 | If you are a driver with a full licence giving LGV or PCV entitlement and that licence was issued outside the European Community you may only drive an LGV or PCV which has been brought temporarily into the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | K. I 've been held up at Paddington , John . |