Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] have [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The combination of prophetic denunciation and broad generalization did not appeal to his contemporaries ; as one of his colleagues in the Chandos Group ( where Eliot had been discussing the matters contained in his book ) wrote later , " It is understandable that The Idea of a Christian Society should make little appeal to the large majority of the intelligentsia . |
| 2 | SCIENTISTS are still battling to discover the reasons for cot deaths and although numbers have been halved the message today is that it is not a simple problem with a single answer . |
| 3 | If Patrick had been expecting the small man to head up Grafton Street , then he was disappointed ; the guide continued on past the bottom of the crowded street , passing Yeates & Son , the opticians with the giant spectacle frame hanging outside the shop , heading into Nassau Street and then he turned right into Dawson Street . |
| 4 | If minutes have been circulated the Chairman will say : " May I sign the minutes of the last meeting as a true record ? " |
| 5 | The fact that revocation thereby deprived the owner of potential development value did not in itself warrant compensation , since if permission had been given the development value would be transferred to the state through the development charge . ) |
| 6 | If albuminuria has been detected the result of a midstream urine culture is also included . |
| 7 | If Cawthorne has been accessing the research material of somebody like PKB — and who knows who else — then he knows in advance , or can at least have a damn good guess , which way the market-makers are going to go . |
| 8 | If colonoscopy had been done the extensive nature of the disease might have been recognised and the patient would have entered the programme . |
| 9 | Because women have been allocated the tasks associated with running a household and rearing children as their particular responsibility , one could argue that they need practical day-to-day support in a way which men do not . |
| 10 | How well it works is anybody 's guess , too , because BT has been showing the trade a non-working prototype , with a hole where the 3″ colour LCD should be . |
| 11 | It was a shame that there was nothing from the boy 's mother , but then it was only Thursday and perhaps since war had been declared the post was being delayed . |
| 12 | While Charles had been summoning the clans to Glenfillan Sir John Cope , 100 miles [ 160 km ] away , as the crow flew , in Edinburgh — though far further even by Wade 's splendid new roads — had been making his counter-preparations . |
| 13 | For while Creggan had been attacking the hooded crow he had been watched and now he in his turn was being stooped upon . |
| 14 | Whilst police have been investigating the savage crime … surgeons have been opearting on the savage injuries . |
| 15 | This may occur at the exposed soil surface as raindrops selectively erode fine clay particles , leaving heavier sand particles : with time this process can affect deeper parts of the soil profile , impairing its water-retaining capacity to such an extent that even after agriculture has been abandoned the forest may be unable to recolonise . |
| 16 | In some cases , such as the BBC 's , though damage has been done the library , surviving still , has critical mass and is usable . |
| 17 | One of those gentry was Viscount Fauconberg , who had married Mary , the third daughter of Oliver Cromwell , in the same year as Cromwell had been offered the crown ( 1657 ) and they occupied Sutton Court , a mansion in the Little Sutton area , south of Turnham Green . |
| 18 | Rehydration with oral rehydration solutions ( ORS ) containing monomeric glucose as substrate has been considered the most important therapeutic breakthrough of this century . |
| 19 | Low cost housing has become less and less available , as councils have been refused the resources to build and of course this savage and unwarranted cuts in the social services . |