Example sentences of "have be [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 The tort has been extended a good deal since Lumley v. Gye and in its modern form its requirements may be summarised as follows .
32 It has been known for some time that the Inland Revenue has been taking a close interest in the marketing practices of livestock farmers in parts of Wales and the West Country .
33 She has been taking a small holiday .
34 A working group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has been taking a fresh look at the problem , and its report was endorsed by the college this week .
35 Britain 's Vivienne Westwood has been taking the historical fantasy tablets for some time .
36 The aim of the series has been to record the domestic interior through contemporary visual records such as paintings , prints and drawings .
37 Since then Milton Keynes has been called a brilliant success , and a place with no heart or soul .
38 For this reason the theory has been called a subjective theory of atonement because it insists that the cross changes us , not God ; that he is always forgiving .
39 Occasionally however more personal comments creep in such as in his 1814 publication , A Description of Sixty Small Prints where on page 17 he wrote ‘ Skiddaw has been called a generous Lord , and the Fells of Borrowdale frowning and haughty Tyrants .
40 However , there have been rumblings of discontent at what has been called an unwelcome invasion of American popular culture into the heart of France .
41 A clear example of the degree of common ground is what has been called the Golden Rule in the different religions .
42 Overall , these studies mark the emergence of what has been called the Georgian style , which employs bilateral symmetry , the individualization of personal space and property , and the specification of discrete elements reunited in a cohesive unity .
43 Another reason for a rethink is what has been called the European dimension .
44 His invention was one of the main forces that accelerated industrial development into what has been called the Industrial Revolution .
45 The holistic statements in terms of institutional racism ( A ) and white power ( C ) articulate what has been called the dominant ideology thesis in the social sciences .
46 IT HAS been called the victimless crime .
47 Increased differentiation based on this mechanism has been called the acquired distinctiveness of cues .
48 This has been called the grammatical function of intonation .
49 This has been called the accentual function of intonation .
50 The increasing role of the greenhouse effect in this transition has been called the runaway greenhouse effect .
51 They act to reproduce what has been called the mass culture critique ( which may come equally from the political right or left , see Hebdige 1981a ) , in which the objects of mass consumption today are treated as so tainted , superficial and trite that they could not possibly be worth investigating .
52 Several grand viziers entered the Sultan 's service via the devşirme , including Ibrahim , the Greek who served Suleiman the Magnificent from 1523 to 1536 ; the Macedonian Koçu Bey , adviser to Murad IV in the seventeenth century , who has been called the Turkish Montesquieu ; and Mehmed Sokolović ( Sokollu ) , the Bosnian who held the post from 1564 to 1579 , serving Suleiman , Selim II and Murad III .
53 The boy I know has been brought up to want for nothing , and has been raised a staunch Catholic .
54 But most certainly the road to the latter , with its decadence and exploitation , has been made a great deal smoother , shorter and more popular by the compromise and self-interest of the clerics and assorted fellow travellers of the so-called ‘ new morality ’ school .
55 Trade sanctions have been threatened and copyright has been made a high-profile issue in international negotiations .
56 Since this case it has been made a criminal offence not to wear a seat belt in the front seat of a car .
57 The base has been made a free port and special economic zone .
58 ‘ No , the wall has been made a permanent fixture , I 'm afraid . ’
59 Foreman , 43 , has been made the overwhelming favourite to earn his 26th win since he began his unlikely comeback five years ago .
60 Jonathan Phiri has been made the Acting Director of the Africa Literature Centre in Kitwe , Zambia .
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