Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present , the reins of central control in management development have been slackened , and Health Authorities locally have been freer to decide for themselves . |
| 2 | The various highways and public transport requirements can be covered by negative conditions i.e. no houses should be occupied until the specified roadworks etc. have been completed to the satisfaction of the Director of Highways . |
| 3 | The schools meanwhile have been critical of the hardware on offer . |
| 4 | Specifically , the SE found that although Barlow Clowes claimed to deal only in government stock , ‘ evidence of their dealing in equities also had been found . ’ |
| 5 | It , too , sounded good but eighteen months later had been applied to only four favoured countries — Mexico , Venezuela , Costa Rica and the Philippines . |
| 6 | ‘ We have used our experience and our ability to sharpen up our image and our content and for six months now have been using full colour every week . ’ |
| 7 | The Marquis may have had a diggicult year but the last few months though have been more difficult for Becky Blandford . |
| 8 | But for too long the cry of librarians disposing of books willy-nilly has been : ‘ You worry too much . |
| 9 | Mrs Robinson , who a few months before had been the mother of a happy and united family , found herself alone in the world ; an inscrutable fate had robbed her of the children who might have consoled her widowhood . |
| 10 | The first pilots to send Luftwaffe bombers spiralling down to crash into the sea were boys , auxiliary pilots who until a few months before had been flying antiquated Gloster Gladiators . |
| 11 | The post of chief operating officer that the Foundation created a few months ago has been abolished . |
| 12 | The office of chief operating officer that OSF created a few months ago has been abolished . |
| 13 | She spoke in a curiously musical , richly accented way with a certain pattern that could only be described as antique — as though the speech mannerisms of the local dales folk of two centuries ago had been preserved within Hannah . |
| 14 | Although we have been playing teams which have been going through crap periods , I think this has worked against us as all the opposition players and fans etc have been desperate for some sort of result . |
| 15 | The books here have been collected entirely at random , as has been explained , but it is interesting to see that the arrival of the new media is reflected in some of them quite significantly . |
| 16 | erm In that sense , whereas of course in the case of primary schools there 've been fewer resources but of course far fewer students . |
| 17 | Traditionally in our secondary schools there has been an overemphasis on content . |
| 18 | In pursuance of these demands there has been a lot of collective action . |
| 19 | Over the last twelve months there have been 51 cases of dysentery in Oxfordshire . |
| 20 | But this increased local differentiation cuts across party lines , and especially within the Conservative and Labour parties there has been an increasing ideological polarization , which , though denied expression in the tightly controlled atmosphere of Westminster , often surfaces at the local level . |
| 21 | ‘ And I , ’ said Auguste eagerly , ‘ heard of a man who was poisoned because the coffee he drank was strained through a linen cloth which months earlier had been soaked in atropine solution , and mistakenly used again . |
| 22 | Pava Barisic , head of the local Red Cross , said the army had cancelled the convoys to Belgrade and the Croatian port of Split even although the departure of about 6,300 refugees already had been approved . |
| 23 | The descriptions above have been based on estimating and planning the use of time on the project . |
| 24 | The descriptions above have been based on estimating and planning the use of time on the project . |
| 25 | Since the agreement to let the original refugees out had been on a once-only basis , it was not clear what was going to happen to yesterday 's 1,000-plus new arrivals in Prague . |
| 26 | A major reason for surrogacy arrangements in Western countries today has been to allow men in heterosexual couples to continue their ’ bloodline ’ when their partners , the women , have fertility problems . |
| 27 | I have the feeling , too , that the great object of the recording engineers here has been to present the full sound-range from the faintest pianissimo to the most thunderous triple- forte , and to ensure also that we hear as it were the furthest tip of the singers ' sibilants and the deepest reverberation of the bass drum . |
| 28 | The transistors here have been replaced with BC108 types . |
| 29 | The poverty of the peasants and the village communes meant that in 1792 , when the situation was transformed by the irruption of the armies of revolutionary France , less than half the redemptions of feudal rights envisaged two decades earlier had been completed . |
| 30 | Conditions for the tens of thousands of refugees there have been described in harrowing terms by UN officials who have visited the town . |