Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You may , you may have lec the lectures are supposed to finish at the end of this term , but if , you know , a lecturer has been ill or has n't managed to get through the stuff erm , you may have some lectures next term , but er |
| 4 | ‘ without due care and attention ’ Due care and attention is normally used when the defendant has been careless or has been momentarily inattentive . |
| 5 | The Minister must have been asleep or doing something else when I raised my final point about the article in the education press in Scotland about the middle of last year . |
| 6 | The roof of the rent , for example , may have been flat or raised with a ridge-pole . |
| 7 | Initially , I would have been embarrassed or offended . |
| 8 | As head of the Near East , South Asian and African Affairs Bureau he inherited ( so he later claimed ) little in the way of policy for a region where American involvement had been intermittent or localized . |
| 9 | There was nothing in the cast of her features to suggest that she had been alarmed or frightened at the moment of her death . |
| 10 | It had been bored or dug or had occurred naturally at an incline of about thirty degrees , so that all the way down into the mine , holding onto the rope , they had had purchase for their feet , had almost been able to walk don , though describing it thus made a dull and orthodox act of what had been the great adventure of their boyhood . |
| 11 | Industrial yields have also dropped across the country , while retail yields have been static or fallen in all regions . |
| 12 | The evidence from the few areas that have been bored or surveyed geophysically supports this view , but other evidence does not fit so well . |
| 13 | In Mozambique , more than two hundred thousand have been orphaned or separated from their families . |
| 14 | Wool-sucking seems to be most common among young cats that have been orphaned or have for some other reason been deprived of the maternal nipple too soon . |
| 15 | The major developments in forestry and forestry policies are summarised in Table 8.3 which shows that more than 2 × 10 6 ha of land , mainly in the uplands , have been afforested or reforested . |
| 16 | So unless you have been self-employed or have had other money , not connected with your job , you may never really have needed to give the question very much thought . |
| 17 | Whether or not you will be asked to pay for your course remains at the discretion of course organisers and managers , therefore , and I am unable to give any hard and fast guidance here , other than to say that they will have to be kept at a reasonable level to be affordable , particularly by those who have been unemployed or bringing up a family . |