Example sentences of "[conj] have [be] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Company Securities ( Insider Dealing Act 1985 ) provides that a person ( ‘ the buyer ’ ) who knowingly obtains information , directly or indirectly , from an individual ( ‘ the insider ’ ) who is or has been during the preceding six months ‘ knowingly connected ’ with the company commits a criminal offence if the buyer deals on a recognised Stock Exchange in securities of that company when the buyer : — |
| 2 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |
| 3 | We learned that there were still , or had been in the late 1950s , a fair number of working schooners in Nova Scotia . |
| 4 | This is a parish in the counties of Argyll , Inverness-shire , Ross and Cromarty , Sutherland , Caithness and the northern islands where there was in 1886 , or had been in the previous 80 years , holdings of arable land with rights of common pasture . |
| 5 | It is only the most recent work that has been of an acceptable standard in this respect , and the finding may be summarised as showing a modest correlation between the level of lead in the blood and hyperactivity in children , and between high blood levels and low intelligence , with the latter conclusion more firmly established . |
| 6 | Simply expressed , the accountability , or responsibility , of single-party government to the people a responsibility that has been of the very essence of our system of parliamentary democracy-would be rendered less likely with proportional representation . |
| 7 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 8 | She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom . |
| 9 | After a while she sat up and slowly began to undress to her camisole and her waist petticoat ; then , turning up the gas that had been on a low jet , she went across the room to the wash-hand stand and poured water from the jug into the basin . |
| 10 | The dunes that had been on the left were replaced by a sandstone ridge and the sand on that side of the road was now black . |
| 11 | One crucial element in this was the resumption of centre stage by a type of music that had been in the dominant culture throughout Punk rock — black disco music . |
| 12 | It had been the Jews , together with Prussian militarism , that had been behind the Russian Revolution . |
| 13 | For it was the procedures and practices that have been at the very core of racing tradition for generations that were on trial here , and there was little realistic chance that they should have been found wanting . |
| 14 | I 'm not one to do double somersaults — I 'm not that acrobatic — but he 's one of the best in the country and has been for a long time . |
| 15 | Do n't because there is at present , and has been for a good many years past , almost nowhere to publish the stories you may write . |
| 16 | Stolen Glances features pictures by ten lesbian photographers and has been at the council-funded Arts Centre for two weeks . |
| 17 | Methodism has made a very rapid progress , and has been of no trifling service in diverting the attention of these sons of darkness from their present condition to the glories of the life to come . |
| 18 | Gavin is also 1990 Junior British Champion in the under 45 kilo category , and has been in the top three of every competition he has ever entered . |
| 19 | All golf and gin and bridge and cars and the right accent and the right money and having been to the right school and hating the arts ( the theatre being a pantomime at Christmas and ‘ Hay Fever ’ by the Town Rep Picasso and Bartók dirty words unless you wanted to get a laugh ) . |
| 20 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 21 | Every night was a milestone , and had been for the past fifteen years . |
| 22 | Septimus , who was a philosopher by nature and had been in a French prison before , made the most of his breakfast in a way peculiarly his own . |
| 23 | A son whose father had Parkinson 's disease and had been in an old people 's home commented : |
| 24 | Spectators are there in thousands and have been since the previous day , before the roads were closed for the Tour 's progress . |
| 25 | Her students , she says , are well prepared for Europe , and have been for a long time . |
| 26 | The S A S have operated in Northern Ireland and have been for a long time . |
| 27 | ‘ Considerable amounts are being spent on replacing them with better services , and have been for the past few years . |
| 28 | We think this exercise is very important and have been among a small handful of organisations in Wales who have been consulted so far . |
| 29 | This victory is a fillip for Mrs Bandaranaike , who became the world 's first woman prime minister in 1960 , but has been in the political wilderness in recent years . |