Example sentences of "have be [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But fears grew that Iraq has been breaking United Nations trade embargoes . |
| 2 | But she has been given special dispensation to play in two events in her home state before that birthday . |
| 3 | The UK car component industry has been undergoing severe contraction owing to the rationalisation strategies of UK assemblers and the increasing tendency for foreign-owned assemblers to supply the market through imports . |
| 4 | Whereas conceptual criteria relate to how the abstraction has been formulated empirical criteria relate to how the abstraction is actualized in data . |
| 5 | Napier University has been providing full-time undergraduate teaching in publishing since 1968 . |
| 6 | George Tooker has been portraying brooding figures caught in foreboding psychological situations for many years . |
| 7 | The point to note here is that it is the lower-wage countries for which this is the case and the crucial impact of the TNCs has been to create intense pressure to keep down labour costs in order to attract foreign investment . |
| 8 | The Prime Minister has been meeting Conservative backbenchers to try to persuade them not to vote against the Government on Wednesday 's Commons debate on the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 9 | OLD BRUSSELS : Chez Jean has been serving steaming pots brimming with mussels and other Brussels specialties since 1931 . |
| 10 | She has been granted legal aid to pursue an action in the Court of Session against Lothian Regional Council . |
| 11 | The maintenance staff has been working 18-hour shifts to bring the hospital into full operation . |
| 12 | The primary aim of the project has been to utilise micro data sets in the rigorous empirical decisions in the presence of credit market imperfections . |
| 13 | The team has been scrutinising new data collected during April , and last week they found one proton-antiproton collision recorded in their apparatus which bears the hallmarks of a Z o . |
| 14 | A BANGOR school has been forging electronic mail links with Japan . |
| 15 | The policy adopted by successive governments has been to encourage general practitioners to practise in under-doctored areas through a series of positive and negative measures . |
| 16 | He has been offered alternative deals to cover both options . |
| 17 | The Pearl has been making strenuous efforts to change its business direction , but the Australians clearly see the possibilities offered by the British group 's large distribution network to market its own products . |
| 18 | With the possibility of privatisation looming , the BTG has been making strenuous efforts to become an international organisation . |
| 19 | One element of Germany 's new policy has been winning Polish agreement to take back expelled asylum-seekers ; a quarter of Germany 's influx arrives via Poland . |
| 20 | One of the aims of Britain 's health and social services for the past 40 years has been to help old people to live in their own homes . |
| 21 | But first this lunchtime , an Ayrshire widow , who 's suing Imperial Tobacco after her husband contracted terminal lung cancer , has been refused legal aid to fund her historic damages action . |
| 22 | Although intended to further curtail local government expenditure — by requiring authorities to meet any unforeseen expenditure from existing budgets — the effect may well have been to persuade local authorities to set high initial rates ( to provide adequate balances to meet unexpected contingencies or loss of income ) . |
| 23 | What a delight it must have been to watch express trains thundering up the bank at Arkwright bridge . |
| 24 | He would have been hearing Tubular Bells had the ball not struck glancingly . |
| 25 | Without it , your employer risks making decisions on the basis of inadequate information and you risk losing your job without having been given sufficient opportunity to convince management that you still have something to contribute . |
| 26 | The aid agency Care , the main distribution agency for all UN relief operations in the north , was reported on Nov. 18 to have been granted official permission to distribute food in southern and central parts of the country . |
| 27 | It was reported on Dec. 18 that the former president of the Senate , Alberto Borea Odria , who had been involved in the abortive coup of Nov. 13 [ see p. 39187 ] , had been granted safe conduct to travel to Costa Rica , where he had been offered diplomatic asylum . |
| 28 | This was in response to reports that Collor 's main political advisers had been using federal funds to solicit the votes of the 168 deputies needed to fend off the impeachment initiative . |
| 29 | Throughout the decade , Grierson had been sponsoring young filmmakers to go out and record the lives of ordinary working people . |
| 30 | had been given ample opportunity to respond constructively but had palpably failed to do so . |