Example sentences of "houses have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A comprehensive account of the function and characteristic features of traditional barns follows , because it is apparent from even a brief tour of any rural district that the treatment meted out to many old barns in the course of their conversion into houses has been insensitive , or even atrocious , and even these enormities have occurred despite their owners ' clearly expressed intentions to preserve , rather than erase , the ‘ barn-like ’ qualities of the buildings . |
| 2 | In past decades the roof void in most houses has been just that : a black , dusty hole in which to dump unused goods out of sight . |
| 3 | The result is that the townscape of houses has been spreading further outwards and now , in places , the rurban fringe of one town meets that of another . |
| 4 | Even the possibility of using income generated by the sale of council houses has been sharply restricted . |
| 5 | Response from the beauty houses has been twofold . |
| 6 | A comprehensive energy efficiency labelling scheme for houses has been launched by MVM , a consultancy specialising in property and planning information . |
| 7 | The important work of slum clearance has been virtually at a standstill since 1939 , only individual houses having been demolished , apart from an area in London intended as a showpiece for the Festival of Britain . |
| 8 | The village is a typical ‘ street ’ type of community , with the original single line of houses having been augmented in recent years with additional housing developing along the back lanes , behind the Main Street . |
| 9 | This house and Palazzo Durini ( see page 126 ) are believed to be the first two town houses to have been built in the city after the population had been decimated by plague in 1630 , when , it was thought , as many as 70,000 Milanese died . |
| 10 | Through the centuries about twenty-five houses had been built in Ploughman 's Lane , first of all for the minor gentry , the widows and kinsmen , for instance , of the lord of the manor ; in more recent times , equally large and widely spaced dwellings had been put up for the professional class . |
| 11 | Most of the Kabye living in Lomé had been rounded up for protection by the army , saying their houses had been ransacked by the Ewes . |
| 12 | They enjoyed their city as the eighteenth-century Londoners must have done , before the delightful town houses had been raped and turned into offices . |
| 13 | It was the 1730s before the government stumped up compensation for those whose houses had been damaged or destroyed and among them was one James Sharp , ancestor of Jane , my great-grandmother , whom I still remember being taken to visit as a child . |
| 14 | An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such . |
| 15 | The last monthly housing report to be issued before the abolition of the corporation in November 1968 showed that only four corporation houses had been built . |
| 16 | In 1962 the increase in population had been 1,172 but in the same year only nineteen new houses had been built ; land had to be found for new housing . |
| 17 | By the accidents of distance and dates of birth both the Kiwi Keith and the Mackenzie houses had been spared the effects of war and neither knew the pain of loss or the sadness of wounds in young bodies . |
| 18 | Three whitewashed , two-storey houses had been built beside the church . |
| 19 | As almost 12,000 houses had been started by 1987 , the overall target was raised to 25,000 new dwellings . |
| 20 | The new houses had been left in an untidy state . |
| 21 | All of the houses had been ‘ done up ’ . |
| 22 | They yesterday found out which rating band their houses had been placed in for the new tax , which starts next April . |
| 23 | In addition , two similar houses had been bought by two companies , one of which , Ivyester Ltd , was wholly owned by Mr and Mrs Kempton . |
| 24 | How much intimidation took place after the previous raid is hard to gauge , but in 1955 Charley Head , who had been signals officer with 3 Commando in March 1941 , revisited the islands and learnt that no one was shot after the March raid , although some houses had been burnt down . |
| 25 | An opportunity occurred soon after ; nearby , two houses had been demolished , leaving a heap of assorted wood . |
| 26 | It must have been built to fill a space that was left after the five houses had been completed . |
| 27 | The former police houses had been sold to the public but no one told BT . |
| 28 | On either side of it , where the houses had been bombed , blocks of dull flats had been built during Jarvis 's childhood . |
| 29 | By the end of the century thirty houses had been established on the model of Toynbee Hall , almost half in provincial cities , notably in Liverpool , another centre of desperate poverty . |
| 30 | The composition of both Houses had been defined in broad terms . |