Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( In the police and civil service an estimated 80 per cent of Albanian employees had been dismissed or had resigned . ) |
| 2 | Many other Jews had been enslaved or had run away . |
| 3 | The various pupils ’ study needs just listed include many skills that most school teachers would expect their pupils to have been taught or to have acquired in the process of their secondary education . |
| 4 | We are still attempting to persuade people that the figures they have been given or have invented are wrong and if we operate on the real figures there is no reason for mass closures of elderly persons homes and we are still attempting to make the refurbishment programme work as best we can to achieve the most we can in the shortest period and for the least money . |
| 5 | … the court … must act on the valuation unless there be proof of some mistake or improper motive … as if the valuer has valued something not included or had valued it on a wholly erroneous basis … from Lord Eldon 's judgment in Emery v Wase ( 1803 ) 8 Ves Jun 506 , where the difference between valuations of £4,000 and £6,000 was said to warrant judicial suspicion that the valuation had not been made with attention to accuracy : but the case was decided on the basis of the court 's duty to protect the property of married women . |
| 6 | start as we should AIM TO visit/contact every customer who has not responded or has responded negatively to ascertain the reasons why and endeavour |
| 7 | The Law Society will have powers to suspend a solicitor convicted of a serious crime from practice before taking disciplinary proceedings , and to intervene in the practices of solicitors who are incapacitated or have abandoned their practices . |
| 8 | However , as it is the only qualification in this area , we have endless problems in discouraging people from attributing to it all sorts of accreditations for which it was not designed and have to point out that it does not qualify people to interpret , give advice or act on behalf of others . |
| 9 | The plane had been expected and had come in unchallenged , and would fly away again in total safety . |
| 10 | The roads were potholed and had received little maintenance since 1944 . |
| 11 | The ambitions of the modernizers , themselves , seem to have been exaggerated and to have encouraged commentators to believe more substantial change was taking place than was actually implemented . |
| 12 | They had been unable to find the target , but had dropped and had become widely scattered . |
| 13 | The long-serving 34-year-old attacked the Dragons boss for his use of tactics when he took charge , was promptly dropped and has refused to play since until he received an apology . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've always bought when other people are squeezed and have got to sell . |
| 15 | He had little idea as to how far they had come and had lost count of how many times they had fallen . |
| 16 | In 186 B.C. there were Galatian mercenaries in Egypt who were able to announce to the world in perfect Greek from the little temple of Horus in Abydos " We of the corps of the Galatians have come and have captured a fox " ( Bitten berger , OGIS 757 ) . |
| 17 | We know also the son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true and we are |
| 18 | People in Schweinfurt itself who had suffered directly from the bombing were said to be completely demoralized and had declared that they would not hold out much longer in ‘ such nerve-racking days ’ . |
| 19 | Her rival never rebuilt and had to give up . ’ |
| 20 | Some had been killed outright by flying shrapnel , others had been badly wounded and had died slowly . |
| 21 | We 're assuming he 's wounded and had to hide nearby . |
| 22 | One tree has been uprooted and has toppled over the Water of Leith . |
| 23 | To encounter a hairy elephant would be alarming ; but the dinosaurs caught and have held the imagination of us all because they seemed dragons . |
| 24 | There is much discussion of creativity in Japan but the practical approach is that of ‘ keihakutansoka ’ , the art of ‘ making things lighter , slimmer , shorter and smaller ’ , leading to creative individuals being constrained and having to work ‘ under the bench ’ to make progress ( Clarke , 1984 ) . |
| 25 | Icelandic cattle today still show some likeness to those of Shetland and have developed under similar environmental conditions ; the main differences are that the Shetlands are horned and now invariably black-and-white pied , whereas the great majority of Icelandics are polled and have retained the older colours . |
| 26 | Consequently , as stories reached the capital of excessive clampdowns and criticisms , the leadership were unnerved and had to halt the campaign before it got out of hand . |
| 27 | Since 1976 the presumption of regular growth has been rudely shattered and has lead to the emergence of new ‘ cutting strategies ’ ( Glennerster , 1980 ) . |
| 28 | You must tell the Department if you become aware that you are suffering from a disease or physical disability not previously disclosed or which has been disclosed but has become more severe . |
| 29 | The Recreation Ground was saturated but having given up hope the hot sun came out , covers were unravelled and a suspiciously soft pitch was revealed . |
| 30 | There is not one of the erroneous and superstitious beliefs of mankind that are supposed to have been superseded but has left vestiges at the present day in the lower strata of civilized peoples or even in the highest strata of cultivated society . |