Example sentences of "[conj] have been [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have some that he did not use last year , or he may have become interested in a topic in the syllabus that has been given a new twist by some research ( perhaps his own ) . |
| 2 | I think Klute is a superb film and I think he ( his father ) set an acting style in that film that has been mimicked a great deal since . |
| 3 | Sometimes the same bank that has been making the public loan to the government also stores the overseas private deposits from private nationals . |
| 4 | Mark states that the next morning Jesus and his disciples walked passed the fig tree that had been cursed the previous day . |
| 5 | The representatives of nations and organizations that had been preserving a cautious neutrality now swelled the flock , gabbling about friendly relations and mutual benefit . |
| 6 | The telephone was then borrowed to order those samples that had been requested the previous night . |
| 7 | The next day the Iranian military unit that had been guarding the American embassy was ordered to return to its barracks . |
| 8 | On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village , on the south face of Kala Agar ridge , that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater , and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road , when , approaching a pile of rocks , I suddenly felt there was danger ahead . |
| 9 | There had been only one obvious course of action — and that had been to raise the necessary sums by selling the family estate . |
| 10 | Table 6.2 shows the number of addresses that have been allocated the stated number of records per address ( up to seven ) , and the percentage of the total number of records in the file that was successfully allocated by each of the six algorithms used by Kaimann . |
| 11 | He 's right , he has the body of a whippet topped by the face of a bulldog that 's been given a severe kicking . |
| 12 | The boy I know has been brought up to want for nothing , and has been raised a staunch Catholic . |
| 13 | It has lofty and spacious reception rooms and a ballroom and has been declared a national monument . |
| 14 | Although relatively creaky as an operating system , the DOS installed base is vast — maybe over 100 million — and has been given a new lease of life by the runaway success of Windows . |
| 15 | The South as an image lives on , and has been given a new elixir with the appointment of Julius Nyerere as the head of the South Commission . |
| 16 | The £750 Heineken Puppy Trophy winner has an average sectional time of 5.26 and usually flies out of the boxes and has been given an ideal trap six draw . |
| 17 | ‘ She paid her own ticket from Australia for the interview , and has been running a much-respected heavy metal magazine there , ’ said Dave . |
| 18 | Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest . |
| 19 | Mrs Fellows , admitted for an operation on her varicose veins , is adequately hydrated and has been following the dietary advice she was given in the Outpatient Clinic and has managed to lose some weight . |
| 20 | He had been to Martin Finkelstein 's bar mitzvah and had been given a small white hat , which was still on his mantelpiece at home . |
| 21 | Clayton had visited Australia in 1988 and had been given a firm job offer by the Sydney Morning Herald . |
| 22 | Yes , Jack had certainly cracked in the pro-am , and had been given a sharp reprimand by the tournament director , Oliver Moreton , no doubt much to the latter 's enjoyment . |
| 23 | He was four years older than I was , and had been given the silver-spoon education that the son of a wealthy Edinburgh family was entitled to expect , I suppose . ’ |
| 24 | He had been married to my mother for fifteen years and had been called a bad husband , whereas she had been what is known as a good wife . |
| 25 | He had given up writing poetry and had been living the duplicitous life of a critic deciphering his own works , but when he fell in love with Howard 's wife Elizabeth his former self was reawakened and he ceased to believe in his own existence . |
| 26 | Admiral Mountbatten and Professor Zuckerman had visited the United States in the autumn of 1959 and had been shown the massive underground silos of the Titan intercontinental ballistic missiles , and had concluded , quite rightly , that Britain had neither the resources nor the need to enter the land-based ICBM league . |
| 27 | There was scarcely a divinity student in Cambridge , says a contemporary , who ‘ made not himself a disciple of Mr Andrewes by resorting to his lectures and transcribing his notes , and ever since they have in many hundreds of copies passed from hand to hand and have been esteemed a very library to young divines ’ . |