Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For nearly twenty centuries , the figure known as Judas Iscariot — Judas the Sicarius — has been accursed and despised , cast in the role of most heinous of villains . |
| 2 | Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised . |
| 3 | Platt , who has yet to make his Italian League debut for Juventus , said : ‘ My nose has been X-rayed and confirmed as broken , although I thought I was fit enough to play today . |
| 4 | Gerald has been married and divorced 4 times . |
| 5 | Mass reaction to the royals has been muted and distracted . |
| 6 | He has been thrifty and pored over contracts , although there is no preparation for the mental upset of a group folding . |
| 7 | In some cases , where the childhood has been unhappy or deprived , there is no such happy occasion to build upon ; in such instances I start by asking the patient to tell me what he could see as he lay in bed at night — this often brings its own feelings of security to even the unhappiest child . |
| 8 | Council officers say the vandalism has been consistent and meant the present exhibition Funny Energy had to be open for restricted hours only . |
| 9 | Besides trends that come and go , there are basic pieces that should be snapped up at every opportunity — anything that has been hand-made or finished : beaded and embroidered cashmere cardigans , beautiful lace shirts , superbly cut Thirties and Forties jackets or satin brocade robes . |
| 10 | On board , the mood has been informal and relaxed , not least because of the smell of the endless bouquets given to Mrs Major . |
| 11 | ‘ Your contribution at the Foreign Office , especially during the British Presidency ( of the European Community ) , has been immense and played a considerable part in the outcome at Edinburgh last week . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ For the past four weeks I 've been in the Middle East on business , and this place has been empty and locked up . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Although he has been bad-mouthed and rubbished by lots of the women he has slept with , he never says anything about them , which I suppose is quite admirable . ’ |
| 14 | The windows are richly dressed , though they do not lend themselves to the Kensington approach ; as with Thins , the interior has been face-lifted and made warmly welcoming . |
| 15 | It 's thought he 'd been incontinent and tried to wash himself . |
| 16 | When Jeanne had found herself separated from Madeleine , she 'd been distraught and convinced her friend had been killed . |
| 17 | I 'd been calm and controlled . |
| 18 | If they 'd been wise and told their government that this tax should not happen , as indeed many of their former ministers , like Michael Heseltine said , they 'd said it was incredibly complicated although seemed sounding easy , and would in fact bring higher levels of taxation to the lowest income people , then er if the local tories had actually acted on that and put pressure on their central party , perhaps their government would n't be in such a mess about this issue now . |
| 19 | In the absence of truly definitive knowledge about Jesus , it seems to us more likely , more probable , more in accord with our experience of humanity , that a man should have been married and tried to regain his rightful throne than that he should have been born of a virgin , walked on water and risen from his grave . |
| 20 | Sharp rises in the national export statistics in both 1523–4 and 152 rule out any general depression ; any unemployment can only have been temporary and localised , as the disorders in the eastern counties were not repeated on the same scale anywhere . |
| 21 | Lord Pearson agreed that if there had been an error it would have been jurisdictional but found no such mistake . |
| 22 | As we have seen , there may have been extensive and managed clearances of grassland and scrub within the woods . |
| 23 | While the audience in the cinema now accepts a slackness of narrative logic ( though not of narrative drive ) that would have been rare and frowned on in the 1940s , it still expects — even in a send-up — more than token adherence to the rules of the genre or of the individual film type itself : horror , sci-fi , the Spielberg ‘ Indiana Jones ’ series , the Lucas Star Wars series , the Broccoli ‘ James Bond ’ series etc . |
| 24 | Initially , I would have been embarrassed or offended . |
| 25 | In the old days he would have been amused and asked her how she 'd done it . |
| 26 | On the rare occasions when French and Vietminh met and when local concessions might have helped at least to improve the atmosphere — for example the release of hostages taken by Vietminh — the Vietminh for their part denied all knowledge that any had been taken while violent incidents were either attributed to the forces outwith their control , which may well have been true , or else to the anger of the people which , again , may have been true but did not improve matters . |
| 27 | and we 've , I mean we 've said this on reflection afterwards , as much as we do n't like cutting up plates of sandwiches there must have been some that took home half a dozen |
| 28 | ‘ The FA should have been brave and made a decision either to eliminate Peterborough or allow the 9-1 result to stand . |
| 29 | Nor can Hewlett be dismissed as having been lucky and got it right first time : it did n't . |
| 30 | In the nature of things a leavening of the poorer husbandmen ( and yeomen , for that matter ) may be presumed to have been elderly and retired from active farming . |