Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the kite that Lord Hanson has flown is bobbing around in the political and financial winds . |
| 2 | One of the strengths Scotland has enjoyed is having a group of players who have become stronger than the individuals . |
| 3 | Even the government 's re-entry into the gilts market as public borrowing has risen is seen as a sign of hope . |
| 4 | The Yasa will not be offended against if the ship is steered not by an oar , but by what the Khan has said is called a rudder , being just another kind of oar which is fixed to the stern of the vessel . |
| 5 | Generally the only interference my copy has suffered is having my jokes removed . |
| 6 | Now , what Mr has moved is to defer the matter , and I 'm in mind of to accept that . |
| 7 | And , if you think about it , all that the would-be driver has done is to use his mind and his imagination to visualize all those things which could possibly go wrong and cause him to fail . |
| 8 | I think what radical feminism has done is popularised that and taken it out on the streets and provided a core of anger and rage and has mobilized women . |
| 9 | But if we , what she has done is soured the relationship with us |
| 10 | She points out that what feminist thought has done is to take pornography out of its usual position in the argument between conservatives and liberals over censorship , and to put it into a completely different framework ( p. 137 ) . |
| 11 | What Piaget has done is to remind us that children operate mentally in a way different from adults . |
| 12 | What the defendant has done is to set in motion a chain of events . |
| 13 | What he has done is to supply himself with a ridiculous experience by the telling of which he could entertain several hundred people , without having to undergo the dispiriting strain of suffering it first . |
| 14 | All he has done is to show , in a crude way , that , in order to increase the market value of the firm , one needs to identify opportunities where actual returns exceed those required for the risk involved ! |
| 15 | To brood on the unkempt surface of the earth as Baltz has done is to find that normal ideas of scale are suspended . |
| 16 | What 3i has done is demonstrate that the clearing banks in the UK have collectively over forty years ensured that there is access to long-term development capital for British industry . |
| 17 | The one and only good thing that fluoridation has done is to provide an illustration of the urgent need for legislation to prevent the use of public money , the machinery of government , and the time of public servants for promoting private interests at the public 's expense . |
| 18 | What Vichy has done is to graft hydrophilic collagen into lipidic chains , allowing it to pass into the epidermis to perform vital energising work . |
| 19 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 20 | So I think that what he has done is to try and meet the concerns which your Lordships have have expressed er i in second reading My Lords er I did think if I might say so with the greatest of respect for the Noble Lord , Lord Harris of Greenwich whom I admire en enormously and not for er only for his views which erm depending upon what the views are er that it depends upon my extended admiration |
| 21 | All the guy who 's pushing on has done is got from one holdup to the next holdup quicker than the next feller . |
| 22 | What Jerison has done is to reconstruct the probable EQs of extinct animals that now exist only as fossils . |
| 23 | The Code of Practice which the Secretary of State has approved is intended to give traders practical guidance . |
| 24 | When , when erm Phil has had is training tomorrow , he will become an expert amongst us and will erm put my rather partial knowledge into the into the shade , but basically what I 've got here is a blank form for everybody to fill in — a job description questionnaire — together with job description guide notes , which should go together . |
| 25 | 4 Check that a medical discharge note explaining what operation the patient has had is sent to the General Practitioner . |
| 26 | One tactic she has used is to decide matters outside the formal Cabinet , either in committees or in informal groups . |
| 27 | One solution that government has used is to replace or override them with more compliant organisations such as the urban development corporations referred to above . |
| 28 | If you believe that there is something more after this life and that the spirit of the person who has died is continuing its journey in that place , then , because that is as it should be , there is no point in crying for that spirit . |
| 29 | Initially , an entry in a reading lexicon which matches the sequence of letters that one has detected is located . |
| 30 | An indication of just how diverse the mobile phone market has become is provided by Lorraine Smith , a director of Network Telecom Communications Ltd , who recently sold a phone to a 92-year-old woman . |