Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] [conj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The take-up has been better than indicated by the survey we would support the views expressed regarding changes and in particular point thirteen . |
| 2 | Since then performance has been much as expected . |
| 3 | Soon , thought Henry , feeling , as he often did , a sense of solidarity with chickens , they would label one with THIS FOWL HAS BEEN HAND-REARED AND TALKED TO NICELY . |
| 4 | And so though we have all sinned and that circle , that perfect purpose of God for you and for me has been warped and distorted out of all recognition , the potential that God had for you and for me , it 's been dis it seems to have been destroyed because of the warping and because of the impact of sin . |
| 5 | Although the take up in some areas has been poorer than expected in the programme , which is now into its second year , research into changes in working practices and attitudes has been assessed . |
| 6 | ‘ He said ‘ I am not saying that they are happy but the treatment has been unfair and exaggerated in the papers ’ . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He said ‘ I am not saying that it is happy but the treatment has been unfair and exaggerated in the papers ’ . ’ |
| 8 | They had advised her to have the baby adopted , told her she 'd not be able to earn a living for them both , but she 'd been willful and gone her own way . |
| 9 | F—in' red wine on the carpet , that was bad , white wine on the walls so you get like a nice green tinge and they 'd been sick and broken the toilet seat and they 'd shit in the toilet and not flush it , fags in the coffee cups , I do n't let them come round any more … ’ |
| 10 | Would that apply if they 'd been independent but gone back into it ? |
| 11 | If I 'd been older and known the words to comfort him … |
| 12 | Another time I was lying in a hospital bed after a car crash — I 'd been lucky and escaped with minor injuries , but I 've always had a keen sense of drama , so I lay there feeling as though I 'd just come through the Battle of Britain . |
| 13 | I walked fast — my feet stood up to it very well , I 'd been sensible and worn my trainers not my nice stiletto wobblers , but it still took me a fair old time to get to somewhere possible . |
| 14 | Each territory would have been a complete business organisation in its own area , but because no territory would have been large enough to run a complete main line a great deal more co-operation would have been necessary than existed between the regions , and on a much more formal basis . |
| 15 | It was not until she saw the colour of the light — deep warm gold — that she realised how long she must have been asleep and looked at her watch . |
| 16 | The heaviest betting this year has been for Shellac , a six-length winner from Sudden Victory at Ayr last time out , but the deciding factor is that Dettori originally chose to ride SPLENDID CAREER ( nap 3.35 ) , who may have been unlucky when beaten at Newbury by yesterday 's Goodwood winner Monastery . |
| 17 | Friends will probably have been available when needed ; and outings to cinema , theatre , relatives , pub or restaurant will have broken up evenings and weekends with pleasant variety . |
| 18 | The roof of the rent , for example , may have been flat or raised with a ridge-pole . |
| 19 | Browning 's defence lawyer says this and other evidence could have been crucial if heard by the trial jury . |
| 20 | The idea of the futile brave attempt to soften the life up here — for it would have been hard and isolated when the house was built and savage in the winter — trying to set a garden on this soil , in this salt air , appealed to her . |
| 21 | He could not have been kinder nor taken more trouble to see that we enjoyed ourselves . |
| 22 | But for Gerard Houlahan 's supreme skill in driving home Armagh 's first goal in the 25th minute the orchard county would surely have been dead and gone by the interval instead of trailing by just one point at 0–7 to 1–3 . |
| 23 | He says he would have been dead and buried now . |
| 24 | Middlesbrough would have been dead and buried if Taylor had taken other scoring chances before the break . |
| 25 | A second or so before half time Bradford should have been dead and buried as Tommy Jones hit the post . |
| 26 | Conference , if you think back to all those times that you have sat at home watching the news after a day 's work like I have , and listen carefully to what is being said , you may well have been horrified and saddened to hear the many stories appertaining to people who have had accidents or died due to the fact that the machine they have been driving has been too powerful . |
| 27 | Though the problem of radiation embrittlement has been recognised since the outset of the civil Magnox programme in the early 1960s , the inspectorate called for more evidence of the safety of Magnox plants in 1990 after it found the rate of embrittlement may have been faster than predicted . |
| 28 | It appears from documents to have been ruinous and abandoned by 1437 . |
| 29 | Diana is said to have been upset and angered by phone calls between Camilla and Charles . |
| 30 | President Lech Walesa was said to have been astonished and upset by Kolodziejczyk 's retirement which was seen by observers as an indication of tension between Olszewski and Walesa , who had initially opposed the formation of the Olszewski government . |