Example sentences of "of [noun prp] have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1341 the Forest of Dean had been diminished by a quarter , and the warden 's farm was reduced from £160 to £120 . |
| 2 | By June 1318 the forest of Selwood in Wiltshire had been so much reduced in size that the warden 's farm of £10 a year could no longer be paid , and the Forest of Dean had been reduced by a quarter before the end of the reign . |
| 3 | Plans for an incinerator for BSE-infected cattle in the Forest of Dean have been approved , despite strong local opposition . |
| 4 | Since 1982 , the burden of CGT has been eased by the welcome introduction of index-linking . |
| 5 | The former chairman of ICI has been offering advice to everyone from fruit sellers to factory owners . |
| 6 | Hypogammaglobulinemia and depressed IgG to surface antigens of Giardia have been suggested as factors contributing to chronic infection . |
| 7 | Six of his retainers were put to death at York on the day of his own execution , together with another eleven rebels , including Roger Clifford and John Mowbray , whose claim to the lordship of Gower had been set aside by the king in 1319 . |
| 8 | Once the acute episode of RSI has been identified and treated , the next essential step is to prevent a recurrence . |
| 9 | Others still detained at the end of March had been held for almost 10 years . |
| 10 | The teacher was furious that the photograph taken in her new school on the outskirts of Middlesbrough had been used for political purposes . |
| 11 | PLANS for a superstore on the outskirts of Middlesbrough have been opposed by Cleveland planning councillors . |
| 12 | A SUPERSTORE development on the outskirts of Middlesbrough has been opposed by Cleveland planning officials . |
| 13 | A PLAN to build executive-style houses in an upmarket suburb of Middlesbrough has been refused for the second time . |
| 14 | A SICILIAN accused of forming a Mafia cell in the Alpine city of Grenoble has been expelled to Italy . |
| 15 | The genuineness of the Ring of Minos has been questioned by Nilsson , but now that it is lost , allegedly buried somewhere in the garden of Nicolaos Pollakis , the priest of Fortetsa , who for a time shortly after its discovery was its owner , the question will probably never be resolved ( Warren 1982 ) . |
| 16 | Plessey and the biggest bit of Ferranti have been swallowed by GEC ; Racal appears to be retreating from the market ; Thorn EMI last year put its defence business up for sale . |
| 17 | JSL of Hereford has been making pistols since 1975 , mostly for export . |
| 18 | Within a few years four species of Plasmodium had been recognized , responsible for clinically distinct variants of malaria . |
| 19 | The pace of Taylor has been complemented by the kicking form of captain Nick Edmonds , who has contributed 342 points so far . |
| 20 | The University of Stirling has been validated to run SCOTVEC modules as is currently offering modules in Italian and Spanish through its Continuing Education Department . |
| 21 | The foresters gave evidence that two townsmen of Colchester had been seen hunting in the forest , but had evaded attachment . |
| 22 | Most of the beeches that had been a feature of Woodbrook had been felled . |
| 23 | Andrew Simmons of ITN has been travelling with the convoy , and has sent us this special report . |
| 24 | The aerial ‘ Battle of Britain' having been won by RAF Fighter Command in August-September 1940 , the German Luftwaffe switched its attention to the bombing of London and industrial towns . |
| 25 | Saying that Germany as a whole has not yet bottomed out of recession and that recovery could come in 1994 at the earliest , the management board chairman of IBM Deutschland GmbH said that the government 's solidarity pact to help recovery in the depressed east of Germany had been over-valued — ‘ The pact received praise I do n't think it deserved ’ Hans-Olaf Henkel said . |
| 26 | On May 31 the EPLF vice-chairman Tamirat Laynie told relief officials at a meeting in Addis Ababa that priority would be given to relief operations : the port of Assab had been reopened by agreement with the EPLF and all relief agencies should within a week submit details of their future projects , he said . |
| 27 | In Honduras , for example , nine leaders of the indigenous organisation Federation of Xicaques Tribes of Yoro have been killed in the past four years . |
| 28 | One side of Beryl 's been left as it was to show the difference between before and after . |
| 29 | By this stage , Field Marshal Lord Alexander of Tunis had been dragooned by Churchill to become Minister of Defence and , in effect , ‘ overlord ’ of the Admiralty , War Office and Air Ministry . |
| 30 | I can certainly agree with my hon. Friend — that incident was most regrettable , particularly in light of the fact that the human rights record of Indonesia had been improving in recent years . |