Example sentences of "[pron] has [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everyone has been having a bad recession , and not everyone believes they must prune radically their investment and marketing budget . |
| 2 | ‘ Someone has been playing a stupid game with me . |
| 3 | Xhosa-speakers generally support the African National Congress , which has been waging a small-scale war with followers of the Zulu-orientated Inkatha Freedom Party for the past week in Johannesburg 's townships . |
| 4 | Employment relations as a fundamental relation of organizations upon which has been constructed a whole discourse of the determinism of size as a contingency variable increasingly gave way to more complex and fragmentary relational forms , such as subcontracting and networking . |
| 5 | According to Computerworld , Softlab recently offered $350m for the company — which has been experiencing a rough time of late , reporting mid-term losses of $3.5m back in January . |
| 6 | A brass band from Point of Ayr Colliery , which has been given a temporary reprieve from closure after being included in a 90-day pit review , headed the rally . |
| 7 | In making his diplomatic push , Mr Bush agreed to continue US support for Unita , which has been receiving a covert aid programme of between $40-$50m ( £25-£30m ) a year . |
| 8 | Or put another way , the economic growth objectives are planned so as to be practicable without recourse to that part of oil and gas production which has been designated a foreign currency earner . |
| 9 | The comparatively recent date at which water flowed in these wadis is attested by the presence in some of the oases of fish from tropical Africa , while Pleistocene beds in the Atlas have a fauna which has been called a Zambezi fauna . |
| 10 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
| 11 | b ) any Question necessary to bring to a decision a Question so proposed ( including , in the case of a new Clause or new Schedule which has been read a second time , the Question that the Clause or Schedule be added to the Bill ) ; |
| 12 | American Airlines , based in Fort Worth , Texas , is presently losing about $81 million a month on the Stansted link , which has been running a daily Boeing 767 service to Chicago since June . |
| 13 | The crown consists of two circlet crowns welded together and into which has been set a cloth-covered headpiece . |
| 14 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 15 | Harden 's type-series ( 1956b , pp. 139–43 ) divided the total assemblage into a number of distinct categories , beakers with stems or claws , bell , bag or cone-shaped , with the related horns , pouch bottles , squat jars , bottles , palm cups and bowls , to which has been added a bucket-shaped vessel from the cemetery of Westgarth Gardens , Bury St Edmunds ( Suffolk ) ; slight variations have been made to the original typology ( Harden 1978 , pp. 2–6 ) . |
| 16 | This does not normally involve dismantling the disk drive , you just insert in the drive a special disk to which has been added a small amount of a cleaning fluid . |
| 17 | Section 10 establishes the Register of Land Charges consisting of five classes to which has been added a sixth , Class F. They are described below and apart from the bankruptcy entries , relate to unregistered land . |
| 18 | News that the French insurance giant , U A P , has been suspended until Monday , pending an announcement , lifted the U K insurance sector , which has been anticipating a European bid approach for one of its companies . |
| 19 | Throughout this chapter the emphasis has been directed towards the determinants and consequences of bargaining structure since this is a concept which has been accorded a considerable role in explaining a number of important collective bargaining phenomena both within and between national industrial relations systems . |
| 20 | Toni , who has been called a dark Debbie Harry , was recently voted the best female artist and object of desire in the music press . |
| 21 | Another point : the intruder who has been denied a quick escape route is unlikely to remain in the house for very long ( it 's one of the first things he sizes up after breaking in ) . |
| 22 | Fletcher , who has been given a five-year contract , captained England in seven of his 59 Tests , in which he scored 3272 runs ( 39,90 ) , with seven centuries . |
| 23 | In Now Voyager he played the family man caught up in a shipboard romance with a repressed spinster , Bette Davis , who has been prescribed a transatlantic cruise by her psychiatrist . |
| 24 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |
| 25 | By contrast , a person who has been handed a single leaflet in the street is clearly outside the ambit of the section . |
| 26 | She has been taking a small holiday . |
| 27 | It 's been five years since Zoë Fairbairns last published a novel , during that time she has been writing a huge and compelling family saga , Daddy 's Girls . |
| 28 | It gives her a role as a pseudo-ambassador to the region and she has been granted a special travel visa allowing access to the area without the normal restrictions on foreigners . |
| 29 | She is the Santa Maria del Sud and had recently been brought down under tow from the Argentine naval base near Buenos Aires where she has been undergoing a complete refit . |
| 30 | She has been waiting a long time for your kiss . ’ |