Example sentences of "of [noun] have be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not aware of the point that the hon. Gentleman raises but , as he knows , a tremendous amount of support has been made available through the Home Office and other sources to assist members of the ethnic minorities in this country . |
| 2 | The office of President had been left vacant since Ayliffe 's retirement . |
| 3 | Rev Daniel Ntoni-Nzinga of Angola has been appointed International Coordinator of the Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa . |
| 4 | The slabs of rock have been worn smooth like well-used soap . |
| 5 | ‘ The persistent concern to increase councillor calibre through reorganization ’ , he says , ‘ makes it equally clear that the essential object of reorganization has been to make local government more functional for dominant interests , by restructuring it so as to facilitate their direct control of its expenditure and interventions ’ ( 1979 , p. 245 ) . |
| 6 | By far the most important problem that has been selected as providing the push into the invention of crime has been thwarted conventional ambitions — Merton 's ( 1938 ) ‘ anomie ’ theory and the ‘ delinquent subculture ’ theories of Cohen ( 1955 ) and Cloward and Ohlin ( 1960 ) being the most influential examples . |
| 7 | Trial reintroductions of dormice have been made possible by the imaginative captive-breeding programmes of Dot Heaton at Windsor Safari Park . |
| 8 | They say gangs of youngsters have been targeting elderly people in the town centre and stealing purses from them . |
| 9 | ‘ A piece of wood had been driven clean through the heart , apparently after death . ’ |
| 10 | Orkney 's Marine Pollution Officer , Captain Bob Sclater aid that the Department of Transport had been kept abreast of developments . |
| 11 | The Royal Mail , which for a number of years has been transporting first-class mail overnight by air , totally reorganised its operation at the end of September . |
| 12 | Now that the threat of interdict had been made public Henry began to negotiate more seriously . |
| 13 | Government concerns that the 1988 Licensing Act would encourage greater consumption of alcohol have been proved unfounded . |
| 14 | Hundreds of people have been found near to starvation at the Serb-run Omarska detention camp in Bosnia at the centre of allegations of executions and other atrocities . |
| 15 | THOUSANDS of people have been offered free passage out of war-torn Sarajevo . |
| 16 | In addition since that time a host of legislation has been passed separate from the companies acts which provides rights for each of the parties involved . |
| 17 | In the US , farmers work the soil so hard that around five billion tonnes are blown or washed away annually and an area twice the size of California has been rendered unproductive . |
| 18 | The tin-mining towns of Camborne and Redruth on the north coast of Cornwall had been facing major redundancies since the 1985 plunge in tin prices . |
| 19 | We discovered later that a crowd of drop-outs had been living rough on the Towers , using local fishing boats to ferry them to and fro . |
| 20 | The Court ruled on April 24 that the government was entitled to dismiss up to 600,000 former East German civil servants who at the time of unification had been given temporary contracts rather than being made redundant . |
| 21 | For the first time in this country , for many pupils , the assessment of oracy has been made compulsory : by GCSE . |
| 22 | The department of health has been recommending early penicillin treatment in meningitis cases since nineteen eighty eight , but there 's never been any evidence that it works , until now . |
| 23 | However , it is encouraging that the University 's Guild of Graduates has been giving serious consideration to the future development of higher education in the Principality , including advanced further education . |
| 24 | In example 1 above , the t of steep has been left uncrossed , making the word look like sleep instead , and in example 2 the word dog looks like clog . |
| 25 | Traditionally these two stereotypes of womanhood had been kept separate . |
| 26 | This mode of explanation has been called methodological individualism , for it seeks to disaggregate all larger institutional and historical entities into the practices and relations of the individuals or groups who compose or inhabit them . |
| 27 | The imagination of Presley has been rendered uncomfortable by the presence of the serial killer known as Pitchfork Disney . |
| 28 | This type of evaluation has been called illuminative evaluation by Parlett and Hamilton , and responsive evaluation by Stake . |
| 29 | Various panels of brickwork have been left exposed rather than plastered over , and the original heavy timber floor beams generally continue to project down below ceilings . |
| 30 | In the meantime more than a thousand miles of rivers had been made navigable , but these made no noticeable change in the landscape . |