Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His progress since has been steady , his number of rides has increased . |
| 2 | The results after small bowel grafting alone have been encouraging . |
| 3 | As a result BIS has been able to focus on service provision and customer care and support , and the development of an attractive portfolio of gateways to third party services . |
| 4 | I understand that other roads built up on one side only have been granted 30 mph speed limits . |
| 5 | The horse fair had been abandoned , the stalls cleared and the shops deserted . |
| 6 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 7 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 8 | In a later case in which service had been attempted in Belgium , the Belgian Central Authority certified that service had proved impossible , the defendant not having been found at the address given . |
| 9 | Would the same result not have been obtained without the group ? |
| 10 | Exceptional in its moderacy , the report discounted the fear of imitative crime , arguing that ‘ it certainly has not been proved that the increase in juvenile crime generally has been consequent on the cinema ’ . |
| 11 | JOHN Curant 's visits to the racecourse lately have been as a ladies clothing salesman operating from a mobile stand . |
| 12 | A line containing a stone circle and a pre-Reformation church , for example , has sites separated by perhaps three millennium — so how could the ley ever have been set out deliberately ? |
| 13 | Luke 's an influential and powerful man — the film industry always has been a glamorous lure for young , hopeful girls — and he 's wealthy too . |
| 14 | The old adage garbage in garbage out has been replaced by the new , garbage in pretty picture out , and it is dangerous . |
| 15 | Perhaps the creature coming after Chant now had been responsible . |
| 16 | Regeneration here has been impressive ; indeed , Sir Terence expects to build here again . |
| 17 | The main historical tension here has been between the institution ( typically the university ) and the professional body . |
| 18 | A wine tasting session planned by Stockton Twinning Association today has been cancelled until the autumn due to lack of support . |
| 19 | The appreciation here has been absolutely fantastic . |
| 20 | The result today has been a large increase in the percentage proportion of rent in relation to a declining turnover figure . |
| 21 | The election date announcement on April 12 included confirmation of postponement to an unspecified later date , for security reasons , of polling in Punjab ( where president 's rule was formally extended on March 13 for a further six months — see above for need to pass constitutional amendment allowing this before Parliament was dissolved ) , in Assam , where president 's rule was also extended on March 13 for a further six months from the end of May , and in Jammu and Kashmir , president 's rule there having been extended for six more months from March 3 , as approved by Parliament on Feb. 27 . |
| 22 | Both international links have so far come to nothing — the SFE link having been effectively abandoned for the time being , and the CBoT accord never having been implemented . |
| 23 | of the flocks in Chichester Harbour recently have been adult males . |
| 24 | Those boards which took the establishment of a training programme seriously have been able to contribute constructively to school decision-making . |
| 25 | First , it can be said not merely that C does not sue for breach of contract between A and B , but that his cause of action actually depends upon the contract not having been broken . |
| 26 | As Templeman LJ put it : As between Scherings and [ the expert ] if [ the expert ] had obtained the information from sources other than Scherings , then it would of course not have been confidential in his hands , but , by agreeing to advise Scherings and by accepting information from them to enable him to advise Scherings , [ the expert ] placed himself under a duty , in my judgment not to make use of that information without the consent of Scherings in a manner which Scherings reasonably considered harmful to their cause . |
| 27 | How could his enthusiasm not have been aroused by so inspiring a personality ? |
| 28 | His stage presence lately has been little more than a presence ; he seems happy to stand in the shadows , occupying his usual spot on the drum riser while the spotlight dances on Bez and Bez dances with Rowetta and Rowetta plays with her whip , a caricature bad girl playing with the bad boys . |
| 29 | British consumers will have to find £90m to meet the EC 's directives over the next few years ; might this large amount of money not have been better spent , say , in building hospitals and schools ? |
| 30 | Indeed , once the dollar effectively had been devalued it became more likely that the same might happen again in the near future . |