Example sentences of "they have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If tests confirm there was a mix-up , the parents will have to live with the fact they have been loving someone else 's child . |
| 2 | Drunks and drug-takers are less susceptible to pain , because their senses are numbed by whatever they have been drinking or taking . |
| 3 | 50,000 children are admitted into hospital each year because they have been drinking harmful products . |
| 4 | " Maybe they have been drinking tizwin , " he said . |
| 5 | Some of them have not been found guilty , and albeit they have been charged with horrendous crimes they are still innocent people and it does n't matter even if they are not innocent people , the Government still has a responsibility to life and limb and really I ca n't see any case at all for not storming . |
| 6 | After all , people have always wanted to do violence to those who stood in their way when they were attempting to commit robberies ; but they have been bound by certain conventions of which they were unaware . |
| 7 | They have had unfortunate childhoods in which they have been neglected and brutalised . |
| 8 | Side cutters are useful for cutting both cable and flex to length , and for trimming cores neatly when they have been connected to terminals . |
| 9 | This tells me they have been connected with wickedness . ’ |
| 10 | I assume that people are put on the list if they have been connected with an offence relating to prostitution or have been cautioned . |
| 11 | At an older phase — for example , children aged four and five years in pre-school classes — they have been observed sharing , helping or comforting about once every 10–12 minutes on average . |
| 12 | Guilcher ( 1958 ) quotes salinities of 27 40 parts per thousand as being required for corals , but they have been observed flourishing in the Persian Gulf with salinity as high as 48 per thousand . |
| 13 | For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum . |
| 14 | During the past decade the poverty stricken countries of the South have been paying far more money to the rich North than they have been receiving in new money . |
| 15 | Some have criminal convictions , all say they have been cautioned or warned by the police several times . |
| 16 | This may be because no one likes to admit they have been fooled or because many German records relating to their intelligence operations against Britain were amongst the captured archives not returned to Bonn in 1956 . |
| 17 | The majority of doctors are simply not aware of the dangers attached to Depo-Provera and other injectable contraceptives , nor that they have been prohibited in other countries . |
| 18 | It becomes difficult then to adduce abstract principles which should have a life of their own , quite apart from whether they have been exemplified within history , which may be used to judge history . |
| 19 | In the centre of the platform gapes an immense lime pit covered by a grating which is used for the disposal of the hanged after they have been gibbeted . |
| 20 | I 've watched Howard Kendall 's side recently , and the stuff they have been serving up has been bordering on the pathetic compared to earlier performances this season . |
| 21 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 22 | Most pilots do not instinctively look across and compare their height with the trees unless they have been taught to do so , and more often than not a pilot will try to judge by angles and positioning alone . |
| 23 | Mistakenly supposing that their moral beliefs are innately given , people are liable to continue to accept what they have been taught as young children . |
| 24 | No one who is either a parent or a teacher can fail to be aware of the vast differences between children of 7 , not because of what they have been taught , but because of their rate of development and their maturity . |
| 25 | Further meeting time is allotted to assess the topics after they have been taught . |
| 26 | Young people are best able to withstand the danger of alcohol abuse if they have been taught : |
| 27 | They do not forget what they have been taught in the past , and as long as their basic work is kept up to scratch ( i.e. suppleness on each rein , general willingness to work , and obedience ) , the rest falls into place . |
| 28 | ‘ So far they have been taught to become very good technical accountants . |
| 29 | To expect them to stride manfully towards independence is rather like asking them to dive before they have been taught to swim . |
| 30 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |