Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd dived , you see , but eventually they had to surface — the air must 've been getting bad — and up they came , drew nearly alongside a German destroyer the pack had left behind when they called off the hunt , waiting there , just in case Taureg surfaced . |
| 2 | Congratulations goes to Paddy Summers of the Sixmilewater league who has been elected assistant team manager to Russell Morrow , Ballymena . |
| 3 | On no account should he be allowed simply to get in his car and drive around before he has been pronounced competent to drive , and has organized his driving licence and insurance accordingly , if for no other reason than that his insurance would be invalid if he did have an accident . |
| 4 | Morocco 's fledging Green Party has been declared illegal , ostensibly because it has not been officially authorized . |
| 5 | The piglet they bred at school has been declared supreme champion at one of the country 's top farming shows . |
| 6 | Moreover , experience demonstrates that once over 50 per cent acceptances have been received and the offer has been declared unconditional as to acceptances , the minority ( particularly institutional shareholders ) often sell . |
| 7 | But the vote has been declared invalid because fewer than half the parents took part in the ballot . |
| 8 | THE Queen 's cousin — art-dealer John Bowes-Lyon — has been declared bankrupt in London 's High Court , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 9 | In addition to the disqualifications that apply to voting , a person may not be a candidate if he or she has been declared bankrupt within the previous five years , has incurred or authorised unlawful expenditure by a local authority above £2,000 , or is a paid employee of the local authority in question or the holder of a politically restricted post in another local authority ( see pages 88 — 9 ) . |
| 10 | A BUSINESSMAN who defied Sunday trading laws ten years ago , and gathered over £4,000 in fines and legal fees in the process , has been declared bankrupt . |
| 11 | DSC Communications Corp , Dallas has seen off a shareholder suit brought against the company and some of its officers in 1991 over the problems some of the Baby Bells had with the software for the MegaHub Signal Transfer Point : the suit has been dismissed without prejudice and the motion to certify class action status for it has been declared moot . |
| 12 | DEVELOPMENT continues apace in Syria as the Wadi Aabeid field — in which LASMO has an interest — has been declared commercial . |
| 13 | Princess Coronation Class 46229 ‘ Duchess of Hamilton ’ which was originally hoped to be steamed between Carlisle and Perth later this year , has been withdrawn due to restrictions being imposed on the locomotive by ScotRail engineers . |
| 14 | In The Art Newspaper No. 16 March 1992 p. 6 we published the fears of some art historians that this exhibition might have been infiltrated by fakes ; in the event these fears have proved to be groundless and the show has been enjoying great success . |
| 15 | It has been enjoying spectacular growth for its sales of the super absorbent polymers which make nappies that much more comfortable . |
| 16 | Unknown or overlooked by most museum professionals , a series of major international art exhibitions has been enjoying unusual success in the Tennessee capital . |
| 17 | 7.7.9.2 to pay to the Landlord on demand with Interest the amount of such insurance money so irrecoverable in which event the provisions of clauses 7.5 and 7.6 shall apply ] It is not unreasonable for a lease to contain a provision that the tenant will pay for the reinstatement of premises where insurance has been vitiated subject to a limitation being placed on the persons who can trigger this provision and possibly subject to the tenant being allowed to receive the payable insurance money as the reinstatement progresses . |
| 18 | They suspect that she may really be able to hear — but has been struck dumb by some sort of shock . |
| 19 | They suspect that she may really be able to hear — but has been struck dumb by some sort of shock . |
| 20 | BABY kidnapper Caren McSweeney is so stunned by what she did that she has been struck dumb . |
| 21 | It is this basic human right that has been denied deaf persons and their families for hundreds of years . |
| 22 | The wife of one says her husband has been denied proper access to lawyers and medical care . |
| 23 | One of the biggest problems facing task forces has been collecting accurate data . |
| 24 | Wrexham Maelor council has been collecting historical and architectural items of interest for a decade . |
| 25 | With the launch of Pocket UK , Peter Bowron has been appointed European territory manager in the export sales department , looking after Scandinavia and southern Europe , including Israel ; Angie Tainsh has been promoted to export marketing manager and will continue to represent the lists in France , Switzerland and Belgium ; and Michael Geoghegan has been retained as a freelance covering Germany for S&S and Austria for S&S and Pocket . |
| 26 | Michael Bird ( 47 ) FCA , has been appointed financial controller of Wimpey Property Holdings . |
| 27 | Andrew Chater ( 32 ) MICA ( Aust ) has been appointed financial controller of Wimpey Minerals International . |
| 28 | Joe Koizumi has been appointed Japanese concierge at the Gloucester Hotel , Kensington , London . |
| 29 | Tandem Computers Inc veteran Steven Wierenga has been appointed vice president of engineering of Auspex Systems Inc . |
| 30 | Peter Taylor , 37 , has been appointed divisional manager of business development at Newcastle-based IMASS , the integrated information technology services company . |