Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have be [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An old car which had been driven across in front of the shooting targets was ideal , so we attached fifteen kilos of the explosive to it in different places , fixed up the detonators , trailed fuse wire back several yards and clipped on the incendiary devices which would activate the firing process . |
| 2 | After a number of break-ins at a Darlington shop a sharp-eyed witness contacted the police with details of a car which had been spotted nearby . |
| 3 | Visitors were allowed entry only in batches of 200 ; no sketches or notes were permitted on the premises ; future directors were obliged by her will to live in situ , on the fourth floor ( a rule which has been broken only by the present director ) . |
| 4 | These folded patterns are characteristic of flow in all kinds of media — one can see similar folds in glaciers , in some kinds of metamorphic rock which have been heated strongly , and whenever immiscible liquids become intermingled . |
| 5 | The ‘ edges ’ are an almost continuous series of jagged scarps or outcrops where the hard carboniferous sandstone juts out from the softer rock which has been worn away by the elements over millions of years . |
| 6 | This legitimation in turn is related to the principle of détournement , a term which had been coined initially by the Lettrists for their neo-Dadaist practice of cannibalising pre-existent materials ( in the manner of Duchamp 's LHOOQ ) with subversive intent . |
| 7 | The figure which has been put forward by the county of a hundred and twenty two hectares for Selby deals with three elements . |
| 8 | One figure which has been proposed already , however , is a council tax water charge of £70 for properties in the ‘ middle range ’ . |
| 9 | Cotte ( pp. 71 – 2 ) distinguishes two main senses of let , the first of which is described as " the non-intervention of an agent in an action which has been initiated independently of him/her and has been going on already for a certain time " , and can be illustrated by : ( 214 ) He would n't even dance with her at Gavin 's party . |
| 10 | It is an amazing web of delusion which has been woven continuously from Burke in 1775 to , let us say , Fiji in 1987 . |
| 11 | Barlow Clowes investors to receive £150m compensation continued from page one had properly investigated an obscure Jersey partnership which had been licensed then it would have established a link between it and Barlow Clowes . |
| 12 | The National Curriculum Council has jointly produced a poster and publications entitled Secondments Into Industry which have been distributed widely into all staff rooms in the country . |
| 13 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 14 | He felt like a boxer who had been pummelled mercilessly against the ropes , on the verge of defeat , only to see his opponent 's corner throw in the towel . |
| 15 | 10.8 If an employee who has been declared permanently unfit refuses reasonable offers of suitable alternative employment , they will be dismissed on grounds of permanent disablement . |
| 16 | Juron managed to heave the access panel back into position behind him , and what little light there had been diminished even more . |
| 17 | Where there has been new investment it has been financed largely from income generated in Africa and re-invested locally . |
| 18 | The core of the machine will be nCube 's self-contained chip ( equipped with DRAM and 40 communications channels ) , made by Hewlett-Packard Co in Oregon , based on a 3m-transistor processor which has been implemented under 0.6 micron , three-layer metal CMOS technology from VLSI Technology . |
| 19 | Sachs compared subjects ' performance with a variety of target sentence positions varying from 0 syllables delay ( for a sentence which had been heard immediately before the recognition test ) to 160 syllables delay ( for a sentence occurring relatively early in the passage ) . |
| 20 | Among positive rights , we should include the rights : to have all one 's experience and knowledge assessed in the admissions process ; to determine the subjects studied ; to have a legitimate measure of control over the pace and the methods of study ; to be able to follow a particular academic interest , or develop a point of view of one 's own ; to be examined in ways which do justice to the student 's achievements ; and to be credited with those parts of a course which have been passed successfully ( should the student wish or need to move to another institution , or to take a break in the programme of study ) . |
| 21 | The most significant part of Grundrisse for our subject is that part which has been published separately in English under the title Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations together with a very valuable introduction by the historian E. Hobsbawm . |
| 22 | There were two projects on his mind : one was the little prose book which had been " clogging his system " , to employ another of his own phrases , since the mid-Forties , and the other was the new play which had been postponed effectively since 1939 . |
| 23 | It 's simply the reason it was done that way was to reflect a County Council decision which had been taken fairly recent times on the route of an outer as opposed to an inner . |
| 24 | It concluded that Kennedy was shot by Oswald acting alone , a verdict which has been questioned ever since by those believing that he must have been acting as part of a conspiracy . |
| 25 | It is an impressive body of photographic , graphic and specially commissioned work which has been put together by former NME photographer Adrian Boot and editors Neil Storey and Rob Partridge , with encouragement from Island boss Chris Blackwell and the head of Are You Experienced Ltd , Alan Douglas . |
| 26 | Two other dimensions of work which have been found less important in the case of the industrial worker are also looked at in this chapter : working hours and the technical environment . |
| 27 | He swept off his black fur cap and his heavy cloak , revealing the scarlet velvet and golden armour which had been hidden beneath . |
| 28 | Hence the keen interest in this result and the fierceness of the battle which has been fought here over the last few weeks . |
| 29 | It also predicts a stress-superposition law which has been observed experimentally . |
| 30 | Green himself had been turned away from a polling station in the capital , Georgetown , for lack of identity papers ; this prompted his supporters , drawn from slum districts , to go on the rampage , attacking the Commission 's headquarters and that of the PPP and looting and vandalising scores of Indian shops . |