Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] [det] [noun] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment . |
| 2 | Conservatism in Britain has been multifaceted but that tradition has been dominant . |
| 3 | The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development . |
| 4 | It has been said that few revolutions have been so complete in the British countryside as the start and end of the railway age . |
| 5 | Restrictions on parent/child contact have been imposed and these decisions have been backed by the threat of court proceedings . |
| 6 | By the mid-1670s Peyton had become the leader of a republican group , ‘ Peyton 's Gang ’ , and it has been argued that this group had a hand in the murder of the JP Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey [ q.v. ] in 1678 , which provoked widespread belief in the bogus ‘ Popish Plot ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're coping because this appeal has helped us immensely , it 's given us something to aim for . |
| 8 | On the first point about the making of local plans , we 're hearing that this policy has the great support , in fact was requested by all the districts in the county . |
| 9 | The court has been told that that order has not been formally served upon the mother , but there is no question but that she knows of its existence and its terms . |
| 10 | He had left suddenly while Rachel had been on leave and on her return she 'd been told that another officer had been appointed but she 'd had no time to find out anything about him . |
| 11 | On the subject of the Pierre Matisse purchase he noted that less than half the collection had been sold but that Sotheby 's had recouped both the cost and associated taxes already . |
| 12 | It has been shown that such listings have a substantial effect on the way in which previous research is used . |
| 13 | Conservative Coun Peter Jones said the Dryden affair could have been avoided if both sides had known where they stood from the outset . |
| 14 | In the result I have not been persuaded that any doubt has been cast upon principles which are soundly directed as being both desirable and reasonable and which furthermore have for long been firmly established by authority . |
| 15 | It simply has n't been demonstrated that any cognizance has been made of R P G two , therefore that these concerns still remain on the table . |
| 16 | It has already been noted that most models have a view of politicians as people who follow overly narrow self-interested behaviour to the detriment of interests of the electorate and presumably their own long-run reputations . |
| 17 | So far £114,957 has been raised but another £200,000 has to be found this year to keep the appeal on target . |
| 18 | So far £114,957 has been raised but another £200,000 has to be found this year to keep the appeal on target . |
| 19 | So far around £115,000 has been raised but another £200,000 has to be found this year to keep the appeal on target . |
| 20 | Under an indemnity , a person is liable on a pound for pound basis for any loss , whether or not the purchase price would actually have been reduced if that liability had been discovered prior to contract . |
| 21 | In differentiating various kinds of policies , and in interpreting their implications for ministerial power , it must be recognized that some policies have implications for more than one department . |
| 22 | And the matter certainly can not be resolved until much work has been done , especially on individual firms and industries . |
| 23 | ‘ People in the diocese will be devastated that these allegations have been made . |
| 24 | At the same time , it should not be forgotten that some writers had been advocating the use of multiple methods for years : |
| 25 | It can scarcely be claimed that these questions have yet been answered in such a manner as to transform Marx 's very general model into a systematic and well-supported theory of historical development . |
| 26 | The dead man and his colleagues would not be named until all families had been told , she added . |
| 27 | New schools and colleges had to be built and more teachers had to be trained and employed . |
| 28 | Each of the lower feeders had their own cropping techniques , and a general assumption can be made that such techniques had themselves a co-evolutionary impact on plants . |
| 29 | Refunds will NOT be made where such charges have been levied by non-bank bureaux de change . |
| 30 | It will be seen that this technique has the effect of interchanging the rankings of the best and worst cases in Table 4.4 , emphasizing the importance of sticking to one method of analysis . |