Example sentences of "[adv] have be [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Part of my life 's work since has been to research this group of orchids and encourage their cultivation . |
| 2 | If I ran home , I should only have been sent straight back , in even deeper disgrace . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's nothing to do with whether I 'm good , whether I 'm lucky enough to have been given more talent than you , the rest of you … ’ |
| 4 | But by the evening HQ 5 Corps and the Army commander personally had been instructed that force was not to be used . |
| 5 | Single birds are usually seen , but two or three together have been recorded several times , and a party of five flew west off Langney Point on 17 October 1947 , and one of 20 did likewise on 1 September 1964 . |
| 6 | I understand that other roads built up on one side only have been granted 30 mph speed limits . |
| 7 | Hundreds of armed riot police are surrounding the Russian parliament building and pro-Communist rebels inside have been given twenty-four hours to surrender . |
| 8 | Hundreds of armed riot police are surrounding the Russian parliament building and pro-Communist rebels inside have been given twenty-four hours to surrender . |
| 9 | These , referred to in his diary , may just have been to illustrate special copies of other authors ' guide books . |
| 10 | ‘ How many other farmers hereabouts have been given similar awards ? ’ |
| 11 | The basic purpose of obscenity laws is and always has been to reinforce cultural taboos on sexuality and suppress feminism , homosexuality and other forms of sexual dissidence . |
| 12 | The equipment might possibly have been reconstructed pre-Civil War relics . |
| 13 | To Shorehead , Huddersfield , from Margaret Shaw who suffered temporary loss of vision during a migraine attack on a shopping trip : ‘ I could not possibly have been offered greater kindness — which went beyond mere service . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If he was n't a successful boxer , Mo would probably have been doing ten years for something or other now , ’ reckoned Tony Burns , Hope 's former coach from the Repton club . |
| 15 | Kingfisher says that even if there had been no leak , the bid would probably have been launched this week . |
| 16 | What you see now has been rebuilt several times , although the medieval foundations still exist . |
| 17 | Some of the beautifully carved crosses could originally have been re-shaped pagan monuments . |
| 18 | The first pilots to send Luftwaffe bombers spiralling down to crash into the sea were boys , auxiliary pilots who until a few months before had been flying antiquated Gloster Gladiators . |
| 19 | Newcastle though have been flying all season … on top of the table since September they 've lost just one of their last ten league games … some thought they were beginning to slip … five goals against Brentford last weekend proved that Kevin Keegan 's team are still the ones to beat … |
| 20 | gone to their GP 's , and often have been given some sort of medicine for their depression but have n't had the counselling side of things dealt with and they 've just been given re-prescriptions , not necessarily seen every time for a re-prescription . |
| 21 | ‘ We have used our experience and our ability to sharpen up our image and our content and for six months now have been using full colour every week . ’ |
| 22 | The opportunity that they now have is to become independent production companies , an opportunity that they did not have in the last round of licence decisions . |
| 23 | David Wild has been appointed senior manager at National Westminster Bank 's Albert Road branch in Middlesbrough . |
| 24 | Although intended to further curtail local government expenditure — by requiring authorities to meet any unforeseen expenditure from existing budgets — the effect may well have been to persuade local authorities to set high initial rates ( to provide adequate balances to meet unexpected contingencies or loss of income ) . |
| 25 | It now concentrates on reference ports of its 4GL technolgy for the major chip platforms rather than on specific machines , but of late has been winning downsizing contracts on HP , Sequent and Pyramid hardware . |
| 26 | I do not remember there having been given such consideration and discussion to the constitution of any other body with which I have been associated . |
| 27 | As Charles Wolf points out there had been mounting Congressional criticism of the Administration 's alleged neglect of Asia and although the strength of Republican feeling had been resisted in the matter of China it was at the cost of a critical concession in Southeast Asia generally — Vietnam in particular — which accorded , nevertheless , with the sentiments and announced global purposes of US policy : to resist communism , to encourage free peoples throughout the world , and to strengthen democratic nations against aggression . |
| 28 | Nor did the war on land make any progress , while those who earlier had been promised English largesse demanded what was due to them . |
| 29 | Republicans Abroad and Democrats Abroad have been allocated 200 tickets each — preference given to those who make a £25 donation . |
| 30 | After the disasters of the past few months , a result which would previously have been called disappointing will now be hailed as a triumph . |