Example sentences of "[conj] have [be] [prep] the [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 | We learned that there were still , or had been in the late 1950s , a fair number of working schooners in Nova Scotia . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It had been the Jews , together with Prussian militarism , that had been behind the Russian Revolution . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Stolen Glances features pictures by ten lesbian photographers and has been at the council-funded Arts Centre for two weeks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 14 | Every night was a milestone , and had been for the past fifteen years . |
| 15 | Spectators are there in thousands and have been since the previous day , before the roads were closed for the Tour 's progress . |
| 16 | ‘ Considerable amounts are being spent on replacing them with better services , and have been for the past few years . |
| 17 | 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 . |