Example sentences of "have be [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already , however , a committee of assembly members - among them only one Maronite — has been instructed to draw up a report , once the debates are over , on the changes in the covenant which a majority of parliamentarians will accept . |
| 2 | Although we have a clearer picture than we did of long-term changes in demography and household structure , little has been done to fill out the picture in terms of living experience . |
| 3 | ‘ Like many others , I welcome the concession that has been made to leave out the airline staff and the railway employees and all the others that are left out by the dropping of clause 54(4) . |
| 4 | A request has been made to read out the module to be updated but this has been unsuccessful . |
| 5 | 5 Airborne Brigade has been tasked to carry out the mission , as the Army 's only dedicated force earmarked for operations outside the NATO area . |
| 6 | His death comes amid a widening split in the party between his loyalists and supporters of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif , who leads a coalition government led by the PML and has been trying to take over the party leadership . |
| 7 | The major combatants will be the Council of Europe and the European Economic Community , The EEC 's commissioner for industry , Etienne Davignon , has been trying to sort out the EEC 's scientific programmes . |
| 8 | UK Transport Minister John MacGregor yesterday published a paper proposal to introduce road pricing to ease congestion in London : under his plan , every car would have to be fitted with an electronic identifier , and its movements within the capital would be monitored by 4,000 roadside beacons : drivers would either establish credit with the system operator or be sent a quarterly bill , the Evening Standard reports ; the paper says that MacGregor has been trying to think up a snappy name for the thing , but reckless of the manner in which the Community Charge degenerated into the much-excoriated Poll Tax , he has settled on Congestion Charge . |
| 9 | Swindon Town had a weekend off … but travel to Grimsby tomorrow … amid rumours that Glenn Hoddle has been asked to take over the vacant top job at Bristol City . |
| 10 | It is needed to burn off methane gas , which has been discovered seeping off a disused council tip . |
| 11 | Finally , Mr Murray said that he had received numerous letters about the selection of the typeface ( Courier ) for all our future correspondence and due to the strength of feeling on this and other layout issues it has been decided to set up a Keyboard Operators panel to discuss the way forward . |
| 12 | A farmer has been forced to call off a bizarre attempt to charm his hop crop . |
| 13 | In the UK , and in the USA , the first step has been to try to set up an assessment procedure ( Simpson , 1981 ) ; then to consider how training might best be implemented . |
| 14 | Our policy has been to try to build up a great team and not to weaken our playing strength , and it was for this reason that we accepted the offer made . |
| 15 | If the case has been issued take out a consent order so that interest runs on the costs . |
| 16 | It seems rather strange that the accuracy for navigating/surveying now , by state of the art technology , is of the same order as has been used to set down the Circles of Time several thousand years ago . |
| 17 | The backlight button or manual iris control has been used to open up the lens aperture in order to give the foreground subject the correct exposure . |
| 18 | A new telephone system has been installed to speed up the operations of Middlesbrough Borough and Cleveland County Councils . |
| 19 | Alfio Del Serra has been chosen to carry out the restoration . |
| 20 | Its " root " system has been found to extend down the face of a cliff 12m ( 40ft ) , and breaking the rhizomes stimulates buds on the remainder to sprout and produce more growth and spores . |
| 21 | It is understood that British Petroleum chairman , Sir Peter Walters has been shortlisted to take over the job . |
| 22 | ‘ Because I learned by accident INCUBUS was trying to take over his company — and exactly the same thing had happened with another industrialist I 'd been asked to draw up a profile for . ’ |
| 23 | The Soviet neutralisation plan for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to open up a strategic dialogue on a broad front to enable Soviet diplomats to introduce Western military preponderance in the Gulf region tacitly or explicitly into the negotiation process for the limitation of Soviet military influence in other regions . |
| 24 | To his credit , Lord Whitelaw having been forced to bring in the short sharp shock , dropped it when it was proved not to work . |
| 25 | In the Countess 's childhood , before the Revolution , and before Belgium had been liberated from Austrian rule by the French , women had been taught to glide along a floor , their feet hidden by wide skirts and their slippers barely leaving the polished boards . |
| 26 | Under new powers , also approved on June 26 , the Serbian Assembly had been empowered to take over the affairs of the Kosovo Assembly and of other official bodies , and to suspend troublemakers . |
| 27 | She had been tempted to cut out the photographs and keep them , but she had n't . |
| 28 | And a cinnamon and blue nuthatch had been seen creeping up the trunk of a tree towards its mud-patched nesting hole , giving one lad a splendid chance to try out his new birthday present telescope . |
| 29 | I had been trying to pick up a barman in a pub in Hammersmith . |
| 30 | Collecting up her leaflets , she made her way up to bed , and gave in to the little grin that had been trying to break out a few minutes before . |