Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manner in which this has been done is most inept and we now have the situation where some sections of the 1988 Act are different depending on whether they are being applied to semiconductors or other designs . |
| 2 | Though the number of cases where a link between HIV/AIDS and child sexual abuse has been made is relatively small , the long-term implications can not be ignored . |
| 3 | A central concern must now be exactly that which was identified by Dent nearly 50 years ago — the ‘ threat to democracy ’ , which it has been argued is also present , although manifested in a different form , in the changes in the legal framework to the university sector . |
| 4 | Moreover , even the payment of dividends might , in the long term , backfire as one of the proposals which has been canvassed is precisely the payment of the equivalent of National Insurance contributions on investment income . |
| 5 | The scheme with which the Secretary of State has been landed is almost word for word the proposition set out in the pamphlet in 13 rather badly argued pages . |
| 6 | The method used is largely the same as described for waterlilies , the condition in which the seed has been stored being absolutely critical in most cases . |
| 7 | Although memory that an arousing slide has been presented is generally likely to be extremely good , there is evidence that the types of details remembered about such a slide may be different from those remembered from more mundane slides . |
| 8 | It is one thing to move out — not to be able to move back in because one 's place has been usurped is quite another . |
| 9 | If a writer produces a novel in which the role of the police in society outweighs all other considerations , then what has been produced is precisely a novel and not a work of crime fiction . |
| 10 | A capital injection into Target after it has been acquired is often used to increase Newco 's base cost in the Target shares where , for example , Target is acquired for a nominal consideration because the value of its assets is matched by corresponding liabilities . |
| 11 | However , known which type of knot has been used is extremely important in helping to determine where a particular rug was made , because although individual weaving groups may copy each other 's designs , they rarely , if ever , change the knot they use . |
| 12 | For where it has been drawn is everywhere ; from the insistence of Thorndike , and the early behaviourists like Watson and Hull , that all is to be explained , including human behaviour , in terms of conditioned reflexes , to the open-handedness of well-meaning liberationists like Rollin who argue that even worms and sea anemones should be given the benefit of the doubt since we can not be certain that they do not feel pain and therefore have a consciousness ( 1981 : 31 ) . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the most urgent task Central Office has been set is nearly complete — to turn the three-week campaign programme arranged for Mrs Thatcher into one suitable for Mr Major . |
| 14 | The wretched state to which the company has been brought is nevertheless a tragedy , a tragedy for all the towns in America and across the world where IBM was until recently the biggest employer , a tragedy for all its surviving employees , who now have to operate in an environment pervaded with gloom and a sense of failure , a tragedy for all the data processing managers that made it their business to know all that could be known about the company and its products and culture , who now find their hard-earned knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset . |
| 15 | The task she 'd been given was quite unachievable . |
| 16 | The belief that Worrell should have been appointed was extremely strong throughout the Caribbean , and it found its expression through C.L.R. James , then editor of the Trinidad newspaper The Nation . |
| 17 | Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's good for the American patrimony ’ , he says , explaining that when the tax advantage was removed , many important works that might have been donated were instead sold at auction to non-Americans whose countries have strict patrimony laws . |
| 19 | All the portable bits and pieces which might have been stolen were there , yet someone had broken into and searched the car . |
| 20 | ‘ The chance of any child having been infected is extremely remote , ’ he said . |
| 21 | The narrowest , Pound Street , passed between a lake and an overhanging church wall ( both features still exist in 1982 — the roads to have been served were largely those served currently by London Country buses ) . |
| 22 | When the long-awaited Invasion finally started , we were sure that the lives which had been lost were now going to be partly justified , because the boot was definitely on the other foot and the Germans had had it . |
| 23 | He stuck rigidly to his statement that what had been done was absolutely essential in the best interests of the children . |
| 24 | Earlier this month Michael Fallon ( the Conservative candidate ) said claims that training budgets had been cut were simply untrue . |
| 25 | Earlier this month Michael Fallon ( the Conservative candidate ) said claims that training budgets had been cut were simply untrue . |
| 26 | What restrictions had been imposed were largely removed in the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | Moreover , it was possible to reconstruct a universe in which Christian doctrines remained intact , even if the imagery through which they had been expressed was gradually discarded . |
| 28 | For the small table where the two combatants had been seated was now empty . |
| 29 | The speech he had been given was way off the mark , and he would like the truth . |
| 30 | The evening was damp but most of what had been painted was now fairly dry . |