Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But various other bits of machinery which are now lying idle around the quarry probably would 've been better left in Italy or Spain or wherever they were acquired from . |
| 2 | Even so , prisoners do not normally riot unless this sense of injustice has been somehow inflamed beyond its normal simmering state . |
| 3 | Mr James ‘ Jimmy ’ Nail , the thespian of unrestricted growth who gives working people his Spender , has been generously delivering himself of his Weltschmerz . |
| 4 | This has been generously supported by the Department of Health , the Nuffield Foundation , Bearing Trust , Allied Dunbar and will be launching that early next year . |
| 5 | The zippy Toyota MR2 , which has been generously supplied by Northway Toyota of Bootle and Maghull , is a neat machine with a built-in ability to turn heads . |
| 6 | It has been persistently asserted by policy-makers , some administrative law scholars , and those concerned with the administration of tribunals , that the informality of tribunals , their simplicity , and their accessibility , have rendered representation both unnecessary and undesirable . |
| 7 | But in truth their tour , the English section of which ends with the third Test at Wigan today , has been persistently downbeat . |
| 8 | It has been rhetorically espoused by politicians and sceptically analysed by academics . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , strike partner While there has been no doubting the high regard Beardsley is held in around Everton , many had begun to question Mo Johnston , whose future at Goodison had been in doubt after two months in the cold , looks to have earned a temporary reprieve following his equaliser against Liverpool . |
| 10 | There has been no tipping here for many years , and already the bank seems to be slowly settling back into the earth from which it came . |
| 11 | There has been no obtaining by deception . |
| 12 | This has been exactly reversed . ’ |
| 13 | This emphasis has been notably theorized and exemplified in Lukacs ( translated 1971 ) , Goldmann ( translated 1975 ) and in Bloch et al . |
| 14 | But in the later scenes with Carlos , and especially in his great aria after he has been mortally wounded , he recovered his true form . |
| 15 | Lyric poetry has been misleadingly categorized as " subjective " art . |
| 16 | Indeed , it has been lately feared … ’ |
| 17 | Of course , the argument is highly teleological and incapable of scientific proof , but it has been rigorously defended by brilliant minds and can not be lightly dismissed . |
| 18 | It has been slightly crushed . |
| 19 | The law on the control over sexually violent images has been slightly strengthened with the introduction of legislation against the ‘ video nasties ’ and the banning of pornographic images from direct public view , although not preventing their availability . |
| 20 | Only the fabrics store-room has been slightly damaged . ’ |
| 21 | The rule has been slightly relaxed over the last few years , although only in relation to secondary legislation ; it has also been breached from time to time by a number of judges , not least by judicial free spirit , the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning . |
| 22 | ( Note : this has been slightly modified . |
| 23 | This pretty long bob has been slightly curled to add sexy movement and body . |
| 24 | This version has been slightly customized for a British audience . |
| 25 | So including them here on a stock instrument represents something of a treat for the would-be vintage guitar purchaser who has been otherwise stopped in his tracks by the silly money habitually demanded for early '60s Strats . |
| 26 | But while the current downpours brought flood alerts to rivers in Wales and the West Country , over in East Anglia , where the drought has been worst felt , the impact was less spectacular . |
| 27 | Of these , steel making has been worst hit . |
| 28 | There is , however , another element which has been frequently misunderstood , as indicated in the 1969 paper : the continued occupation with a serious lowering of living standards . |
| 29 | In sociological and anthropological literature the phatic use of language has been frequently commented on — particularly the conventional use of language to open talk-exchanges and to close them . |
| 30 | As has been frequently pointed out , it is no use providing excellent beer or food if the pub in question has lost all of its charm and atmosphere ; and surely a multi-roomed pub , with a number of differing environments , is the best way to serve what is after all always a very diverse and unstandardised community . |