Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Ropes has been examining the 80-year-old bridge and in a report to Cleveland County Council says 18 large bolts need to be replaced . |
| 2 | One consequence of the recent shift in patterns of provision introduced to combat falling rolls and to widen educational/vocational opportunities has been to highlight the different sizes found there . |
| 3 | Charlemagne thought that the Byzantine emperors had been denied the Roman empire , which had been conferred on him instead ( 800 ) , because they had shown the pride of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon , not least in allowing images of themselves to be idolatrously venerated . |
| 4 | When all the books had been read the local reader lost interest . |
| 5 | But the scale of the tragedy exposed by Michael Buerk and his BBC camera crew , and the response it provoked in the no-bullshit , energetic , passionately caring rock musician Bob Geldof meant that old-world attitudes towards the plight of helpless peoples have been given the biggest jolt since the anti-slavery campaigns of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | In the past week any number of interested parties have been granted the 30 second television sound bite in order to voice an opinion or two about the way English should be taught in our schools . |
| 7 | LAURENCEKIRK , Turriff and East Wemyss Branches have been voted the best in Scotland — and the best in Britain — by Royal Bank customers . |
| 8 | Supporters have been visiting the new hospice premises at Harewood House where a very successful coffee morning was attended by over 100 people . |
| 9 | A growing queue of upper-crust drinkers have been seeking the heady relief at the ‘ gentlemen 's pharmacy ’ , D R Harris & Co , of St James 's in London — chemist to the Queen Mother . |
| 10 | A woman who has shivered through two winters and still faced large gas bills has been told the wrong meter was being read . |
| 11 | Three navy helicopters had been searching the Manx coastline where the Gloucester had been moored , and where the two radio operators were last seen . |
| 12 | Since about mid-June , the Khmers Rouges had been refusing the chief co-ordinator of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ) , Yasushi Akashi , access to areas they controlled around Pailin , reports said , even though the peace agreement , which they had signed together with the three other factions , gave him authority to travel anywhere . |
| 13 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 14 | To ensure confidentiality of information sources , companies have been given the following tags . |
| 15 | Three years later her efforts have not gone unrewarded : both companies have been awarded the Small Firms Merit Award for Research and Technology ( SMART ) by the Department of Trade and Industry and the charity , Research in Cancer Immunology , has built up a capital base of £35,000 . |
| 16 | If you ask me , some of you odds-and-sods have been playing the old soldier . |
| 17 | * Technical note : like last week to ensure a fair contest , all extracts have been given the same epistolary format that Bragg used in A Time To Dance . |
| 18 | Oliver Sacks is hardly putting himself out on a limb when he affirms that the brain is not like a computer : neuroscientists have been telling the Artificial Intelligence buffs that for years . |
| 19 | As a result , Syrian forces and their allies have been pounding the Christian half of Beirut with artillery for several weeks . |
| 20 | The obvious impact of these principles has been to graft the legal aid scheme onto the existing structure of private practice . |
| 21 | Thai military sources had been predicting the imminent fall of Pailin , saying that the Khmer Rouge were bombarding the town with up to 1,000 shells a day . |
| 22 | The demonstrations came temporarily to an end after a personal appeal by Gorbachev on 26 February , but a report that two Azerbaijanis had been killed the previous week led to an anti-Armenian riot on 28–29 February in the oil town of Sumgait in which 32 people were killed and 197 were injured , including more than 100 police officers . |
| 23 | There were those amongst his small circle of intimates who said it would be his undoing , but they or their predecessors had been prophesying the same for three decades , and Klein had out-prospered every one of them . |
| 24 | Previous topics have been presenting the legal case , environmental health in Europe 1992 . |
| 25 | Nature Conservancy Regional Officers have been studying the red kite 's food requirements for many years . |
| 26 | Some of the agencies have been recommending the complete party and for some people this is ideal , in that they then do not have to worry . |
| 27 | Yet he 's found that several other farmers have been experiencing the fecund year . |
| 28 | A PAINT that fights bugs has been given the green light for use in ‘ sick ’ buildings . |
| 29 | Witnesses have been describing the full horror of the May massacres for several weeks — and are now being taken seriously by the U.S. State Department . |
| 30 | Gloucestershire county councillors had been fearing the worst since February when they approved a budget almost ten million pounds more than the Government target . |