Example sentences of "[noun] have be [verb] [det] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think he has enough talent to have been included many more times . |
| 2 | In recent years dismissals have been justified much more in terms of the need to rationalize the labour force in the face of external economic problems which are compounded by Japan 's ageing population . |
| 3 | Jake had been hurling these same insults at her now for years , and by now she ought to be totally immune to them . |
| 4 | If Barnes is this irreplaceable in the nation 's best club side it again raises the question of what England have been missing all these years . |
| 5 | A WARNING has been given that some council buildings in Clwyd may have to close if maintenance is not carried out . |
| 6 | I asked him whether I was right in supposing that over the years British music had been influenced much more by the Continent than vice-versa . |
| 7 | In actual fact , Fabia had been wondering that selfsame thing herself . |
| 8 | And er the story 's been told many many times that Lloyd George advised them , I 've forgotten the name of the old man , but his wife was buried in the churchyard , and his family wanted to bury him next to her , but they wanted the nonconformist |
| 9 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 10 | I take on the role of the mayor to ask — " What on earth has been causing all this damage ? " |
| 11 | One or two tribes have been given much more time on the radio than others . |