Example sentences of "[conj] he have [been] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also on March 25 parties of the so-called " pro-democracy " alliance ( New Aspirations Party , Palang Dharma , Ekkaparb and the Democrats ) held a joint press conference and called into question the credibility of Narong as Prime Minister , in the light of a recent US State Department allegation that he had been denied a visa in mid-1991 because of his suspected ties with drug trafficking . |
| 2 | Fortunately , I noticed that he had been given a place at a different school from his older brother and that it was actually a matter of filling in the appeal form requesting a place at another school . |
| 3 | His eyes seemed to fasten on her immediately and Maggie had the irritated feeling that he had been given a very uncomplimentary description of her . |
| 4 | French maintained that he thought that the safety catch was on and that he had been struck a blow on the back of the head which had caused him to stagger and pull the trigger . |
| 5 | He had never been stripped of his Bulgarian citizenship , and it was officially reported on June 12 that he had been granted a Bulgarian passport . |
| 6 | In his book Under Fire : An American Story , published on Oct. 22 , North avowed that former President Ronald Reagan not only " knew everything " about the Iran-contra project but also " enthusiastically " backed it , and that he had been made a scapegoat by senior Reagan administration officials seeking to protect the President and themselves . |
| 7 | He blushed guiltily , but the small part of his brain that had been vaguely monitoring the discussion alerted him to the fact that he had been asked a question by the executive producer . |
| 8 | Harris , who last season captained the Raleigh-Banana team which has now been disbanded , announced yesterday that he had been offered a contract by the Spanish Lotus-Festina squad . |
| 9 | Leopold had already written to Padre Martini urging him to send a letter of recommendation to the Elector and , since Munich was on Mozart 's route from Paris to Salzburg , he suggested that his son intimate to the Elector , or to a close associate , that he had been offered a post at Salzburg with a salary of 700 or 800 gulden ( the actual salary was only 450 ) in the hope that a more rewarding appointment might be offered . |
| 10 | The investigation will begin when details are received from Valenciennes over the allegation from defender Jacques Glassmann that he had been offered a bribe from a Marseille official to take it easy . |
| 11 | Junqueira later stated that he had been offered a US$50,000,000 bribe to drop the charges , through a colleague who had been approached by a businessman in the capital , Brasilia , on Nov. 17 . |
| 12 | The current leader of Nihon Kominto , Ryumin Oshima , made a sworn deposition that he had been offered a total of some 5,000 million yen by several senior LDP figures — including 3,000 million on Kanemaru 's behalf — to stop his group 's loud-speaker barracking campaign against Takeshita . |
| 13 | Taylor pointed out one of the things about great players who are given freedom is that they work very hard , and Gascoigne is prepared to do that , even in the knowledge that he has been given a special licence . |
| 14 | A few days ago , some hooligan or other walked into our bedroom , mine and Jane 's — and lifted " Suddenly , as the thought struck him , he jerked back in his chair , as if he had been given a minor electric shock , and stared at Alice , his jaw literally dropping . |
| 15 | When the film used some footage of his wife moving about the cottage , he felt as if he had been given a reprieve . |
| 16 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 17 | That is , if then Q and If Q then R , where these are such conditionals , entail If P then R. It has sometimes been said that certain other " if " statements are not transitive — for example , " If J. Edgar Hoover had been born a Russian , he would have been a Communist " , " If he had been a Communist , he would have been a traitor " , and " If he had been born a Russian , he would have been a traitor " . |
| 18 | A witness can not be asked in examination-in-chief about any previous statement made out of court which is inconsistent with his testimony unless he has been declared a hostile witness by the court . |
| 19 | She feared John might not be at home but he was , and was very excited because he had been promised a job . |
| 20 | One of these was held on Friday , 4th June , 1858 , the day after he had been nominated a member of the Select Committee , when the guests included Scott , Cockerell , Charles Barry , Digby Wyatt and Street . |
| 21 | Education standards had deteriorated to such an extent by 1997 that Billy Johnson could n't work out whether he had been born a day too early or too late to vote , or whether his birth had been induced or retarded . |
| 22 | Sinclair did buy the Observer and the Pall Mall in the end , but not before he had been given a $45,000 guarantee from party funds . |
| 23 | When he 'd been appointed a Minister he 'd handed over his parcel of shares to his wife , Leonora . |
| 24 | Even at the time of his admission and immediately prior to surgery when he has been given a great deal of information , his overriding concern is how he will cope with a stoma and whether he will be able to manage at home . |
| 25 | By supporting their own candidates , they were challenging Baldwin 's authority and leadership even though he had been given a vote of confidence by the Party in 1931 . |