Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] have be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The news that Hanson may be preparing to bid for ICI has been met by a united front on the ICI board . |
| 2 | The World Wide Fund for Nature-Malaysia has been accused of undermining anti-logging campaigns by claiming that , in Peninsular Malaysia at least , " forest policies are among the best in the world " and " as close to sustainable as any major producing country " . |
| 3 | Perhaps even some of his own words about Ceauşescu had been translated into the languages spoken in Romania for the edification of Ceauşescu 's subjects . |
| 4 | Despite the referendum result , opponents of the change argued that the vote was only an opinion poll and had no legal force ; the original decision to name the city after Lenin having been taken by the USSR Supreme Soviet , they claimed , it could only be rescinded by its modern equivalent — the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 5 | By 1341 the Forest of Dean had been diminished by a quarter , and the warden 's farm was reduced from £160 to £120 . |
| 6 | By June 1318 the forest of Selwood in Wiltshire had been so much reduced in size that the warden 's farm of £10 a year could no longer be paid , and the Forest of Dean had been reduced by a quarter before the end of the reign . |
| 7 | Since 1982 , the burden of CGT has been eased by the welcome introduction of index-linking . |
| 8 | Hypogammaglobulinemia and depressed IgG to surface antigens of Giardia have been suggested as factors contributing to chronic infection . |
| 9 | Others still detained at the end of March had been held for almost 10 years . |
| 10 | The teacher was furious that the photograph taken in her new school on the outskirts of Middlesbrough had been used for political purposes . |
| 11 | PLANS for a superstore on the outskirts of Middlesbrough have been opposed by Cleveland planning councillors . |
| 12 | A SUPERSTORE development on the outskirts of Middlesbrough has been opposed by Cleveland planning officials . |
| 13 | A PLAN to build executive-style houses in an upmarket suburb of Middlesbrough has been refused for the second time . |
| 14 | A SICILIAN accused of forming a Mafia cell in the Alpine city of Grenoble has been expelled to Italy . |
| 15 | The genuineness of the Ring of Minos has been questioned by Nilsson , but now that it is lost , allegedly buried somewhere in the garden of Nicolaos Pollakis , the priest of Fortetsa , who for a time shortly after its discovery was its owner , the question will probably never be resolved ( Warren 1982 ) . |
| 16 | Plessey and the biggest bit of Ferranti have been swallowed by GEC ; Racal appears to be retreating from the market ; Thorn EMI last year put its defence business up for sale . |
| 17 | The pace of Taylor has been complemented by the kicking form of captain Nick Edmonds , who has contributed 342 points so far . |
| 18 | The aerial ‘ Battle of Britain' having been won by RAF Fighter Command in August-September 1940 , the German Luftwaffe switched its attention to the bombing of London and industrial towns . |
| 19 | On May 31 the EPLF vice-chairman Tamirat Laynie told relief officials at a meeting in Addis Ababa that priority would be given to relief operations : the port of Assab had been reopened by agreement with the EPLF and all relief agencies should within a week submit details of their future projects , he said . |
| 20 | In Honduras , for example , nine leaders of the indigenous organisation Federation of Xicaques Tribes of Yoro have been killed in the past four years . |
| 21 | By this stage , Field Marshal Lord Alexander of Tunis had been dragooned by Churchill to become Minister of Defence and , in effect , ‘ overlord ’ of the Admiralty , War Office and Air Ministry . |
| 22 | Apparently , a day or so before my arrival , the children of Navan had been entertained at the centre by a man dressed-up as Mickey Mouse . |
| 23 | The crystal structure of CypA has been solved as a complex with a peptidyl-prolyl isomerase ( PPIase ) -substrate analogue tetrapeptide and in an uncomplexed form . |
| 24 | A separate section describing some of the famous warriors of Ulthuan has been included at the end of the army list . |
| 25 | And Michael Caine , Imran Khan , Omar Sharif and the president of Pakistan have been spotted at its tables . |
| 26 | Off-road routes for mountain bikes on the Isle of Weight have been outlined in a new series of guides , Byways and Bridleways by Mountain Bike . |
| 27 | Bishop Lyfing of Crediton is said by Florence of Worcester to have been accused of being associated with Earl Godwin in the murder of the ætheling Alfred in 1036 , and one of his accusers was Archbishop Ælfric of York , who had designs on the bishopric of Worcester , given to Lyfing by Harold Harefoot as a reward for his support . |
| 28 | Although the Bank of Scotland has been established by no less a Protestant champion than William of Orange , this nervousness led George I , or rather his advisers , to doubt that bank 's allegiance . |
| 29 | But the narrow out-crops on either side of Scotland have been honoured by comparatively few publications , though their story is much more exciting . |
| 30 | This caused considerable apprehension , for the Queen of England had been excommunicated by the Holy Father only three years before , and her privateers were taking revenge on her behalf by acts of piracy against the friends of Rome . |