Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible .
2 IBM had originally agreed to help finance the project through to the end of 1992 , and has since been helping Supercomputing Systems to meet its payroll on a week-by-week basis .
3 He has since been granted temporary leave to stay in Britain .
4 He has since been proved right by the discovery first of a statuette , then of an unfinished statue , which combine head and body .
5 Such a conception allows for a greater fluidity between the two modes than has hitherto been found acceptable .
6 Primitive man believed this ; this is one reason why the moon has long been considered feminine .
7 In the first place , Retin-A has only been proved effective on those wrinkles which have been caused by sun damage rather than the inevitable march of time .
8 The Chibis suit ( resembling the lower half of a diving suit ) which the cosmonauts use to draw the blood into the lower pad of the body and legs has apparently been found unsuitable for women .
9 Since its arrival in the eighteenth century , this is a literary mode which has recurrently been pronounced dead but which has been capable of renewal , and now Ackroyd has given a further turn to the wheel .
10 Many converters of churches which incorporate this arrangement have naturally regarded this space as a zone in which living-rooms might be accommodated , and the beneficial use of such roof space has largely been made possible by the widespread employment of standard reversible ventilating and double-glazed roof windows .
11 Against this dearth of local information , Cuba has nevertheless been receiving religious broadcasts and publications from outside the country , but these are frequently alien to the Cuban people 's own expression of the Christian faith .
12 Southend pumps its sewage into the sea after primary treatment ; the beach at Westcliff has just been called unsuitable for swimming by the Heinz Good Beach Guide .
13 If the nodes are numbered in order of creation , and a node has just been declared inactive ( for any reason ) , the next one to be developed should be the highest numbered active ( = most recently created ) node .
14 The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio .
15 And the Trust has just been awarded six-figure funding from the International Fund for Ireland ( IFI ) for a new block at Glebe House .
16 I have no doubt that masked remarks and hints such as these will be tinder for all the combustible muck which has already been piled high around my reputation .
17 08.30 Fred Allcock , who has already been given temporary hand-written despatch documents by John Bell , drives off to Stadium Plastics .
18 Although the tail of this aircraft is still camouflaged. the rest of it has already been painted blue overall .
19 It softened the blow to local people however by emphasizing that the Ringaskiddy dump was only a temporary solution : ‘ The dump at Ringaskiddy is , as has already been made clear and accepted , simply a short-term temporary dump ’ .
20 It has already been made clear that the definition of a ‘ professional ’ degree course being adopted here is an operational rather than conceptual one : it is a course which has a consistent and fairly exclusive relationship with a particular occupation , exclusive in that graduates from such courses tend not to go into other occupations , and in that entry to that occupation is largely or wholly restricted to graduates from such courses .
21 In the ease studies so far considered it has already been made clear that the particular study itself is , as it were , the product of a set of concerns in politics .
22 However , as has already been made clear , preventive programmes can not be planned for everyone likely to face such events .
23 Mr Saunders has already been granted legal aid of up to £275,000 to defend himself against fraud charges in the criminal courts , but he may have to pay whole or part of that money back if the trial judge so decides .
24 This was an appalling offence against an animal and the accused — who has already been found guilty — can not now be punished . ’
25 Now , the specific objection that , as a manifestation of democracy , large industrial co-operatives are impracticable has already been found fallacious because , mistakenly , it assumes direct democracy and overlooks delegation of authority to accountable management as a normal characteristic of indirect democracy .
26 Tomorrow 's meeting at Worcester has already been abandoned due to waterlogging .
27 Ireland 's representation has already been halved due to first round defeats by Antrim 's Mark Winters and Ardoyne 's Eamon Magee who was stopped with 40 seconds to go in the final round .
28 But , in my opinion , oil painting is far from perfect : it darkens , it needs to be restored , any painting on show has generally been restored countless times and is no longer the painting that the artist originally created .
29 No road has ever been built clear across Darién ; nor , one imagines , will one ever be built .
30 gold has always been given special status by most civilisations and is therefore widely accepted ;
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