Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] have [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the relevant occupier or occupiers have been identified the next stage is to ascertain the status of the plaintiff . |
| 2 | No chimpanzee or dolphin has been taught the language of a dog or a human , other than those communications which relate to the basic mental features already common to their minds — territory , comfort , hunger , thirst , sex and so on . |
| 3 | The combination of prophetic denunciation and broad generalization did not appeal to his contemporaries ; as one of his colleagues in the Chandos Group ( where Eliot had been discussing the matters contained in his book ) wrote later , " It is understandable that The Idea of a Christian Society should make little appeal to the large majority of the intelligentsia . |
| 4 | Now that Higginbotham has been given the brush off , may I venture to approach you ? |
| 5 | I read a short news item in which it was announced that Justine had been hanged the previous Saturday , the 24th , after several postponements of the event . |
| 6 | Mr Hirst added that Hilton had been discussing the possibility of moving into India and had already evaluated properties in Delhi and Bombay with the aim of a management contract with a small amount of equity . |
| 7 | It is in these past two weeks that Faldo has been putting the last pieces into place . |
| 8 | It is no secret that Damascus has been using the PKK as a bargaining chip to press Turkey into complying with its demands for more water from the Euphrates , on which it heavily depends . |
| 9 | Consultants told the paper that IBM has been dissecting the two most recent pre-release versions of NT at its Toronto labs to assess the time and money that would be required to do the implementation , and reckon a product could arrive at the turn of the year . |
| 10 | Consultants told the paper that IBM has been dissecting the two most recent pre-release versions of NT at its Toronto labs to assess the time and money that would be required to do the implementation , and reckon a product could arrive at the turn of the year . |
| 11 | Louise Taylor , the girl in the picture that Duncan had been shown the night before , was now dressed in an ill-fitting cheap Russian dress . |
| 12 | He needed to think , because although he was sure that Andrus had been speaking the truth , and that he had not deliberately incited Zoser to kill , he still felt puzzled . |
| 13 | When I did get to the bike I saw it was virtually in pieces and realised that Darren had been attempting the job himself . |
| 14 | At the beginning of August Eurotunnel also announced that Racal had been awarded the contract to supply voice and data communications within the Tunnel in the face of fierce competition from Alcatel , Siemens and other major European Companies . |
| 15 | However , the Court of Apothecaries took the view that Miller had been paying the increased rent for some years and declined to sanction the proposed allowance . |
| 16 | SCIENTISTS are still battling to discover the reasons for cot deaths and although numbers have been halved the message today is that it is not a simple problem with a single answer . |
| 17 | Top and Elton John lookalike pulls the crowds on the Omnibus stand ; centre Polygon 's editorial director Marion Sinclair left and publicist Kathryn Maclean were delighted to hear that Polygon had been named the 1993 Sunday Times Small Publisher of the Year . |
| 18 | The good news is that Emma has been given the all clear and regular check up appointments at St.Bart 's and Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford will make sure she gets the right care from the experts . |
| 19 | So cold was the Cold War that America had been boycotting the import even of Soviet crab meat , let alone a live and wily Soviet leader . |
| 20 | Still , in the next few days as the news began to filter in from Niki 's hospital that Niki had been given the last rites , that he had inhaled burning fuel and damaged his lungs , that his face had been appallingly burned , the facts did begin to sink in . |
| 21 | If Patrick had been expecting the small man to head up Grafton Street , then he was disappointed ; the guide continued on past the bottom of the crowded street , passing Yeates & Son , the opticians with the giant spectacle frame hanging outside the shop , heading into Nassau Street and then he turned right into Dawson Street . |
| 22 | For instance , Parvin and Sabina had been given the task of measuring each other with bricks . |
| 23 | Places like Welwyn Garden City and Crawley have been experiencing the relentless movement of these original cohorts of migrants up the ‘ age pyramid ’ . |
| 24 | If minutes have been circulated the Chairman will say : " May I sign the minutes of the last meeting as a true record ? " |
| 25 | The fact that revocation thereby deprived the owner of potential development value did not in itself warrant compensation , since if permission had been given the development value would be transferred to the state through the development charge . ) |
| 26 | Christiani Neilsen and O'Rourke has been given the £60 million contract to build the line 's biggest station at Canary Wharf , creating another 2,000 jobs . |
| 27 | And frogmen have been dragging the River Severn near Hardwicke looking for clues . |
| 28 | Coltart and Everett have been learning the hard way that it hardly matters if you can sometimes drive the ball 50 yards father than anyone else if the statistics show that some of your opponents single-putt an average of 24 greens per tournament . |
| 29 | Writers , poets and bards had been telling the stories for centuries but it was not until the Victorians that a visual interpretation was recorded and that was essentially romantic and ill-informed . |
| 30 | Dominic and Lee had been playing the fool as only young men can . |