Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Off the pair of us dashed and so were our hopes as of course nothing had been left uncollected . |
| 2 | Also , the Christ Church Vicarage , Which was situated on the corner of Sutton Lane and Heathfield Gardens , opposite Fromow 's Corner on the south-west Corner of Turnham Green , was demolished , the Vicar moving to a new Vicarage which had been built close by , in Wellesley Road . |
| 3 | Later that month , Dr. Harvey Goldsmith who had been appointed medical officer to the Poor Law Institution in 1900 , resigned . |
| 4 | From there , if and when it became possible , he would be taken to the castle at Soragna where the Principessa Meli Lupi was prepared to take him on in the guise of a gardener — a refugee who had been rendered deaf and dumb in the bombing of Milan . |
| 5 | As a result there has been repeated political intervention in the bargaining strategies of railway management , with the government even orchestrating the negotiations in detail , as Gourvish convincingly documents for BR ( 1986 : chapters 7 , 12 ) . |
| 6 | And in order to accommodate the general rule it has been deemed necessary to deprive certain compound words , like sèche-cheveux , of their plural endings when used in the singular . |
| 7 | I do not pretend that these notions can do more than offer a way of thinking about the quantum world with some hope of doing justice both to the idiosyncrasy of its ways and also to the beautiful structure of the microworld which has been laid bare by the discoveries of elementary particle physics . |
| 8 | In that case , it is usually best to use an algorithm which has been proved admissible . |
| 9 | One example of an hypothesis which has been given serious attention in recent years is the possible link between electromagnetic fields generated by high-voltage power lines or supply cables and ill health . |
| 10 | Lachlan , a bandage round his left thigh which had been axed open to the bone , growled from his stool , but Hector nodded . |
| 11 | But surgeons at Frenchay Hospital , Bristol , were able to graft his corneas on to the eyes of another youngster who had been going blind . |
| 12 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 13 | One moment Angel One had been crouched motionless as a carved statue , the next he seemed to have been transposed several feet nearer in the blink of an eye , like a faulty sequence in some badly cut movie . |
| 14 | The day of the hearing of her second case she had been found dead . |
| 15 | Why should the Tory rebels vote for a wrecking amendment which has been rendered futile ? |
| 16 | On Feb. 9 Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel-Halim Moussa announced that the security services had uncovered a fundamentalist group which had been compiling false reports on the human rights situation in Egypt to tarnish the country 's reputation abroad . |
| 17 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 18 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 19 | At Cambrai in 1076 a Cathar who had been judged heretical but not sentenced was being held in the local jail . |
| 20 | Polisario sources claimed that in a recent internal investigation he had been found guilty of corruption and diversion of funds . |
| 21 | We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House . |
| 22 | On more than one occasion he had had to remove a dead dog from the highway and take it in his barrow to the incinerator , and there were times when he had to take the place of a night watchman who had been taken ill on one of the larger roadworks and stay there until he could be relieved . |
| 23 | ‘ All Friday night they 'd been showing Sheedy free kicks on the box . |
| 24 | Suppose that in my wife 's absence I had been knocked unconscious by a burglar . |
| 25 | ‘ For the purposes of this Article an article or substance is not to be regarded as properly used where it is used without regard to any relevant information or advice relating to its use which has been made available by a person by whom it was designed , manufactured , imported or supplied . ’ |
| 26 | Conversely , a local authority which has been refused financial resources can attempt to reverse this state of affairs by embarrassing the central department . |
| 27 | This was in 1976 , when the Expenditure Committee of the House of Commons was refused access to a programme analysis and review ( PAR ) study on educational planning which had been made available to the organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and referred to at length in one of their publications . |
| 28 | However , Ra squeamishly refused to witness the slaughter , so he flooded the fields where his subjects were with beer which had been dyed red with pomegranate juice to resemble blood . |
| 29 | In Ariel ( 15 ) a miner who has been made redundant heads south to Helsinki and falls in love . |
| 30 | In it , a miner who has been made redundant heads south to Helsinki and falls in love . |