Example sentences of "have [pron] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Has someone been talking to you ? |
| 2 | The analytic versus holistic dichotomy as it applies to laterality research has been more often invoked to explain results in a post hoc fashion than it has itself been subjected to experimental scrutiny . |
| 3 | Has it been shown to any dentists ? " |
| 4 | ‘ How long has he been talking to you like that ? ’ |
| 5 | For them , the person of good character has what is said to be the imagination to live tranquilly , or literally ‘ the wizardry to live tranquilly ’ ( mariya adiunaku ) . |
| 6 | The peripheral control processor ( PCP ) of the CDC 6600 computer ( see 6.5 ) has what is referred to as a " replace add " instruction , where the result of adding the contents of the accumulator and a store location replaces both the accumulator and the store location . |
| 7 | Weighing just 7g it has what is claimed to be a new yoke-less magnetic system with a special allow core for the coil assembly ; this is claimed to eliminate irregularities in the flux . |
| 8 | In this context , as elsewhere in this book , by ‘ desire ’ to do or have something is meant to ‘ want ’ to do or have something , which in its turn means to seek the satisfaction of responding to an urge . |
| 9 | I do n't have what is referred to as an outgoing personality . |
| 10 | Had I been allowed to puddle around on my own , people today might curl their lips at Faldo 's approach . |
| 11 | ‘ I tell thee I ai n't got a bleedin' farthing and even if I had I 'm expected to be working . |
| 12 | The birthday party was of a kind which Cecilia would have wondered at , had she been invited to it , for although a few of Bienvida 's classmates were present in its early stages , by seven it had become a celebration for the grown-ups . |
| 13 | ‘ Leithia Everett here , ’ Leith announced formally , and without pausing to let the secretary get a word in , had she been going to , ‘ Would you give Mr Massingham my apologies , please ? |
| 14 | Had she been married to the Prince ? |
| 15 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , come up to The Towers for the afternoon ( who had she been talking to ? ) . |
| 16 | ‘ What 've you been doing to yourself , Maggie Byrne ? |
| 17 | What 've you been doing to yourself ? |
| 18 | What 've you been doing to yourself ? |
| 19 | What 've you been doing to this poor soul ? |
| 20 | What 've you been doing to your gran ? |
| 21 | What 've they been doing to you ? |
| 22 | Why , Mr M wanted to know , had he been sent to Sanday at all ? |
| 23 | ‘ I like the quiet of Beckenham , where no one bothers your balls , ’ said Dad , thinking that that was the end of the matter , as it would have been had he been talking to Mum . |
| 24 | So whom had he been talking to ? |
| 25 | Never before had he been subjected to such a plethora of opinions — often form people with whom he had no real relationship , many of whom , bore him and his family substantial grudges . |
| 26 | It was less than an hour from dusk , and we would have camped there had it been left to me . |
| 27 | Ecstasy in downtown Johannesburg at the very moment crowds outside the supreme court heard that Yanoush Valus and Clive Derby-Lewis , two men driven by cold political fanaticism to assassinate Chris Harney , had themselves been sentenced to death . |
| 28 | In Syria , which then included present-day Lebanon , the people were tribes without a country , in many cases the inheritors of great religious schisms , often dissidents who had themselves been drawn to the mountains of Lebanon by the physical protection which the terrain afforded them . |
| 29 | It is an important implication of this that they are never a matter of how the things which have them are related to other things . |
| 30 | The shortage of Pentiums is so bad that those that have them are said to be ‘ tea-bagging ’ them — moving their precious chips from system to system to prove to customers that their box works , then quickly back into the safe . |