Example sentences of "have [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | The only other recording I have traced was from the Bournemouth Sinfonietta under Ronald Thomas , coupled on EMI with both of the flute concertos and the Sinfonietta No. 3 ( 7/80 — nla ) . |
| 32 | A spokesman for the Lord Chancellor 's Office said last night : ‘ The allegation we have received is that one of the magistrates nodded off and we will be investigating . ’ |
| 33 | To give joy when all you have received is rebuke . |
| 34 | Our trade union has been unhelpful , and the only support I have received is a booklet on redundancy , which at the age of 37 I feel is somewhat premature . |
| 35 | Where the education and training they have received is substantially the same as that in the member states to which they wish to move , their qualifications will be recognised as equivalent . |
| 36 | Very often , when they sound pallid and over-precise , the versions we have received are their latest re-telling , too smooth and polished , fixed and logical . |
| 37 | Regardless of what returns Japanese investors are thought to require , the returns they have received were spectacular in 1980–89 . |
| 38 | In terms of a common form of theism , we have suggested that those world religions we have examined are all fundamentally monotheistic — they believe in one God . |
| 39 | Can the likely outcome of some of the policies we have examined be justified by calculation ? |
| 40 | All I have to wear are the same old rags I 've had for years . |
| 41 | Well staggeringly enough I do n't actually have one this week because the only things I have to report are covered at in under energy conservation bill . |
| 42 | And the standards we have to meet are rigorously laid down regulations . |
| 43 | This simple set of features which we have claimed are necessary for a discussion of topic are required , quite independently of topic considerations , in any form of discourse analysis . |
| 44 | All I have claimed is that consent to obey is recognized , and with reason , as one way of expressing such an attitude . |
| 45 | An abrupt change of position by the United States ostensibly wrecked what some have claimed was a promising diplomatic move . |
| 46 | Only after both time-ships have departed is the name Mary Celeste revealed . |
| 47 | Anyone believing that the personal computer price wars have abated are in for a rude shock this week when Compaq Computer Corp brings out a plethora of new machines , including its first stab at a multimedia model , and cuts prices significantly on its existing products . |
| 48 | C. For a long time many people in the highlands and uplands of Scotland have disliked being so remote . |
| 49 | Increasingly the demands of the position are such that appointments are made with limited tenure only ; and the rotation of the office between partners of firms which have amalgamated is often adopted . |
| 50 | Top left represents SQL life cycle tools , which are tools which have has been delivering for the last three years which address each of the needs of the entire project life cycle . |
| 51 | The most likely reason that waste pipes have frozen is because you have a dripping tap . |
| 52 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 53 | Women in particular may realize that the kind of relationships they have enjoyed are less likely to come their way once they reach middle age . |
| 54 | If all they have to dread is the passing of a law , why behave as if such a law already exists ? |
| 55 | And the majority of those have objected are in the area of that two miles . |
| 56 | ( One of the few politicians so far to have mentioned raising taxes in an election campaign and still have won is Bill Clinton . ) |
| 57 | ‘ The only thing I have to hide is you . ’ |
| 58 | Now what we have to know is whether or not they are in fact getting these contracts because they are the best and the cheapest , or whether they are getting it because they have the best connections and they are paying the most money . |
| 59 | The view to which we have come is that the cause was part of a causal circumstance as conceived . |
| 60 | Many issues with which governments have to grapple are so complex that no matter how well-informed the decision-maker , it is not possible confidently to predict all the likely consequences or knock-on effects of any particular decision . |