Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was looking at the ground , he seemed to be concentrating ; he might 've been trying to remember something . |
| 2 | who was sitting in the audience who is a nurse and er would 've known and she would 've been trying to get in and say this is not true . |
| 3 | We would 've been revising had we not been here . |
| 4 | I do n't think he could 've been insured do you ? |
| 5 | Dr Rab Telfer has been elected to succeed Mr Richard Lines as chairman of the board of governors at Teesside Polytechnic . |
| 6 | Sue has been elected to represent members in AIB Group , Britain on the Executive Committee . |
| 7 | South Africa has said it expects the UN to reduce its 4,000-strong military presence once the poll is over and a Constituent Assembly has been elected to draft a new constitution . |
| 8 | WALLASEY MP Angela Eagle has been elected to chair the Parliamentary Labour Party 's employment committee , which is influential in formulating Labour policy on the issue . |
| 9 | It has been completed bang on time and within budget thanks to a special task force which was set up to lead the complex engineering job . |
| 10 | Since 1978 an organisation called the Liberal Association for the Movement of People ( LAMP ) has been striving to address these problems . |
| 11 | Originally from California , Toni has been striving to achieve musical recognition for the past ten years , playing in LA bands and doing backing vocals for Berlin . |
| 12 | Decisive victory for either side : that is what Turkish policy , in so far as it has any power , has been striving to prevent . |
| 13 | Schedule 1 of the Control of Substances Hazardous to the Health Regulations 1988 ( COSHH ) has been amended to include new maximum exposure limits for grain dust , respirable crystalline silica , nickel and chromium . |
| 14 | This consists of the Auditing Guideline , Communications between Auditors and Regulators under Sections 109 and 180(1) ( q ) of the Financial Services Act 1986 , which was issued in July 1990 ; and Practice Note 3 , Client Assets — Guidance to Auditors of Investment Businesses , issued in December 1990 and which has been amended to reflect recent changes in the rules relating to client money following the issue of The Financial Services ( Client Money ) Regulations 1991 . |
| 15 | The Financial Services Act has been amended to implement these provisions . |
| 16 | On the other hand , caution should be adopted in the interests of third parties , and there should be a reluctance to assume that the treaty has been amended to alter the objects and purposes of an organisation . |
| 17 | Members of Sinn Fein , including its elected representatives , can not speak on television ; the Official Secrets Act has been amended to prevent leaks , forbidding even a ‘ public interest ’ defence ; the new Broadcasting Act insists on ‘ balance ’ , leaving programmes like Death on the Rock , which questioned the government 's point of view , vulnerable to legal challenge . |
| 18 | The rule has been amended to insert a new paragraph ( 4A ) ( a ) to deal with multi-national partnerships . |
| 19 | Rule 13 of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 has been amended to read as follows : — |
| 20 | Rule 4 of the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 has been amended to read as follows : |
| 21 | Rule 5 of the Solicitors Incorporated Practice Rule 1988 has been amended to read as follows : — |
| 22 | Rule 22 of the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 has been amended to read : — |
| 23 | Paragraph 6 of the Solicitors ' Publicity Code 1990 has been amended to read as follows : |
| 24 | Paragraph 7 of the Solicitors ' Publicity Code 1990 has been amended to read as follows : — |
| 25 | At the left of the dining alcove is a more suitable location — after a door stop has been fitted to stop the door knocking the tank . |
| 26 | Security A burglar alarm system has been fitted to cover entrance to the hall and the caretaker 's room . |
| 27 | Security A burglar alarm system has been fitted to cover entrance to the hall and the caretaker 's room . |
| 28 | Alison Maunsell , ACET 's East Midlands regional co-ordinator based in Northampton , has been invited to join H.I.V. T.E.S.P.I. ( Training , Education , Support & Public Initiative ) , a forum run by the local health authority . |
| 29 | ISRAEL may boycott the next round of Middle East peace talks because a jailed man from the West Bank has been invited to join the Palestinian team . |
| 30 | NCT has been invited to join as an associate member and , our President , is our rep. on this advisory body to the government whose terms of references are ‘ to ensure by all possible means that the informed opinions of women are given their due weight in the deliberations of government . ’ |