Example sentences of "have be [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The difference between the groups shown in Fig. 5.8 has been called a differential outcomes effect because the superior performance of the correlated group depends on the fact that the outcome of a correct response is reliably different for the two trial types ( tone trials and clicker trials ) .
2 The club 's former accountant Vince Farrar has been given a six months suspended sentence .
3 Nuclear power has been given an encouraging thumbs up in a recent Daily Telegraph survey which looked into what kind of country the British public wanted their children to inherit .
4 It is possible that this funding may cease after 1997 , but as Manchester Computing Centre has been designated a national datasets centre , the expertise to support the data should remain there .
5 A 230 ton barge has been encountering a few problems on its journey up the River Wye .
6 ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself .
7 The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown .
8 There is a dining room ( with a beautiful Italian monks ' table dating from the early 18th century which interestingly has been lowered a few inches — the monks ate standing up ) , three bedrooms individually decorated , a comfortable study-cum-television room with a log-burning stove — and for bookworms , over 3,000 books .
9 I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear .
10 Peter Cook has been awarded a thousand pounds by the Prince 's Youth Business Trust to set up his own juggling company .
11 However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct .
12 Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there .
13 A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty .
14 She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin .
15 It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs .
16 The grandparent could have been living a few houses away .
17 It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp .
18 It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so .
19 On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun :
20 I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea .
21 Over ninety states have accepted the obligation not to acquire nuclear arms under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty ; although this treaty has not prevented the detonation of a nuclear device by India and the covert acquisition of nuclear capacity also by Israel and South Africa , the total list of nuclear powers is relatively small , and perhaps less than may have been predicted a few years ago .
22 At first the glare from Lucifer — extending beyond Moloch 's ice-locked horizon , and reflecting from Belial high above — turned the depths of space into a flat black backdrop that could just as well have been suspended a few feet in front of her eyes .
23 Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed .
24 The hay had been cut a few days before and dried in the sun and Frederick made light work of heaving it up to Albert on the cart .
25 Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength .
26 But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic .
27 ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football .
28 The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag .
29 ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’
30 Her loose silk smock had been raised , while the elastic waistband of her matching trousers had been lowered a few inches so that her pale abdomen , not yet beginning to swell with the new life inside her , was ready to be smeared lightly with the gel that would facilitate the task of finding the tiny heartbeat .
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