Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have be [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | England manager Graham Taylor was at the game but Spurs striker Teddy Sheringham , who has been touted as a possible candidate for a World Cup place against Poland , did little to enhance his chances . |
| 2 | England manager Graham Taylor was at the game but Spurs striker Teddy Sheringham , who has been touted as a possible candidate for a World Cup place against Poland , did little to enhance his chances . |
| 3 | The monster Calibos , a half-divine man who has been deformed as a punishment by the gods but retains the power of speech and other human characteristics including a curiously ineffectual lust for the pretty Andromeda ( Judy Bowker ) is doubly cast as a Dynarama ( or Dynamation , ie stop-motion ) model and as an actor ( Neil McCarthy ) , a decision not only unprecedented but unwise . |
| 4 | ‘ ( 1 ) Whether or not the Director of the Serious Fraud Office , in employing her powers under section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 in relation to a person under investigation who has been charged with an offence , is obliged by any principle of law , before asking any question or seeking any information in relation to that offence , to inform that person that he is not obliged to answer such questions , or provide such information , and , if so , by what principle of law . |
| 5 | The situation was complicated by Minton 's affection for and affinity with Henrietta who has been compared with a Suffragette in her absolute determination to defeat the pressures of convention . |
| 6 | If a vehicle examiner who has been authorised by a chief constable examines the brakes his evidence will show a more detailed inspection and will probably name the ‘ part ’ concerned . |
| 7 | The novel proposes a man who has been swallowed by a theory of suicide . |
| 8 | It is similarly arguable that it should be up to the defence to provide a proper foundation of evidence for an assertion that a woman who has been robbed by a man nonetheless subsequently consented to sexual intercourse with him . |
| 9 | The words must be uttered by someone with the necessary authority , in a country in which there is a death penalty , to a person who has been convicted of a particular crime ; they must be spoken , not written , at the right time ( at the end of a trial ) and in the right place ( in court ) . |
| 10 | A defendant 's costs order may also be made in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) by a magistrates ' court where an information has been laid before magistrates but not proceeded with ; or where the magistrates ' court inquiring into an indictable offence as examining justices determines not to commit the accused for trial ; ( 2 ) by the Crown Court where the defendant is not tried for an offence for which he or she had been indicted or committed for trial ; or the defendant who has been convicted of an offence before a magistrates ' court appeals against conviction or sentence and , in consequence of that appeal , the conviction is set aside or a less severe punishment is awarded ; ( 3 ) by the Divisional Court where it deals with any criminal appeal ; ( 4 ) by the Court of Appeal where it allows an appeal against conviction or sentence or on such an appeal finds the defendant guilty of a different offence or imposes a different sentence ; ( 5 ) by the House of Lords where it determines a criminal appeal , or application for leave to appeal . |
| 11 | Alternatively , a client who has been treated as an expert investor on the grounds of his experience may claim that , in fact , he was a private investor , that he should have received warnings as to the risks and that , had he received them , he would not have entered into this type of transaction at all . |
| 12 | It is accepted that a list MdB who has been defeated in a constituency may make his services available there , and he is as likely as the constituency 's own MdB to receive requests for assistance . |
| 13 | A newspaper campaign to prevent breeding by some of the substandard individuals with whom society is saddled would be much more to the point than vapid maunderings about the welfare of a child who has been endowed with an almost perfect inheritance , and is being given the best possible care ! ’ |
| 14 | Lucky Ebenezer , 74 , and his 75-year-old wife , who has been fitted with a heart pacemaker , will now be taking life much easier at their home in Aberystwyth , west Wales . |
| 15 | AN EX-SERGEANT who has been confined to a wheelchair for more than a year was exercising in a hospital gym this weekend after a life-saving heart transplant operation . |
| 16 | Who ‘ A ’ is , remains a mystery , but she is a creature of clearly inspirational beauty who has been captured with a fluidity of drawing and subtlety of palette that would be envied by the greatest masters of the French Impressionist School . |
| 17 | But the ever-smiling Adams , who has been dogged by a catalogue of injuries over the past two years , was in no mood to feel sorry for himself at Party Politics ' home-coming , attended by more than 500 people in Upper Lambourn yesterday . |
| 18 | Dion Dublin , who has been linked with a number of top clubs , put Cambridge ahead after 53 minutes with his 17th goal of the season . |
| 19 | The same applies to anyone , tall or short , who has been dieting for a lengthy period already , and generally to those who are only a few pounds overweight . |
| 20 | The story , basically , is about an aged emperor who divides his kingdom equally between his elder , nasty , daughter , Princess Epine , and her young , innocent half-sister , Princess Rose , thus incurring the wrath of Epine and requiring Rose to journey through a twilit world to find , with the help of the court Fool , her Prince who has been transformed into a salamander . |
| 21 | No action was taken but Warrington general manager Ron Close said : ‘ We have looked closely at the video and it looks as if Jones might have deliberately kicked Bob , who has been told by a specialist that he came within an eighth of an inch of losing the eye . |
| 22 | A person who has been admitted as a solicitor and whose name is on the roll shall , if he would not otherwise be taken to be acting as a solicitor , be taken for the purposes of this Act to be so acting [ and therefore being required to hold a practising certificate ] if he is employed in connection with the provision of any legal services ( a ) by any person who is qualified to act as a solicitor ; ( b ) by any partnership at least one member of which is so qualified ; or ( c ) by a body recognised by the Council of the Law Society under section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 ( incorporated practices ) . |
| 23 | It is natural for a person who has been working towards a survey for several months to overlook the fact that the respondent has never heard of this wonderful enquiry and may be utterly baffled by it ; but in this lies a great danger of asking poor questions , insufficiently considered from the respondents ' viewpoint . |
| 24 | Returning to the jungle he finds he has to kill Lowery who has been stung by a Varga . |
| 25 | I 'd love to read something about Beefheart again — for me he is still just about the only person who has been described as a genius in your august organ who might just be one . |
| 26 | A not-so-good euphemism for someone who has tried to do him/herself in by hurling him/herself beneath a moving tube train , or someone who has been jostled from a congested platform on to the track , or some kicky kid indulging in Tube surfing-travelling outside the train and hanging on , and falling off , like John Koporo , age 11 , who in 1987 at Kilburn became the sport 's first victim . |
| 27 | POLICE are concerned about the safety of a 20-year-old woman who has been missing for a week . |
| 28 | HOPES were fading last night for an Anglesey man who has been missing in an Alaskan wilderness for five days . |
| 29 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
| 30 | Later , we read that ‘ nothing … shall prevent a constable delaying taking a person who has been arrested to a police station if the presence of that person elsewhere is necessary in order to carry out such investigations as it is reasonable to carry out immediately ’ . |