Example sentences of "have be [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The race has been taxing young bloods as far back as the 17th Century . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The House will find it difficult to understand why the country needs another nuclear test , especially when the basic technology has been tested countless times before . |
| 4 | I have been asked to reply My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been having important discussions today with President Yeltsin , who is on his first visit abroad as President of an independent Russia . |
| 5 | Politically , however , their main effect during the twentieth century has been to make local government financially dependent upon the centre . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 7 | The effect of the changes in origination costs and consumables account has been to reduce pre-tax profit significantly below levels previously reported , in particular in the years 1989/90 and 1990/91 , when the group accumulated heavy origination costs in developing a video sell-through catalogue and product base . |
| 8 | This has in fact occurred in the advanced capitalist countries , and one main consequence has been to limit industrial conflict primarily to economic issues , as against larger issues of the control of the enterprise , and to bring about a substantial degree of integration of workers into the existing mode of production . |
| 9 | Much of the glen is owned by NTS and there has been increasing adverse publicity recently over a vast upsurge in visitor numbers , the centre 's failure to stop indiscriminate car parking up and down the glen and increased mountain erosion . |
| 10 | ( Even our typewriters are mechanical horrors that should have been declared obsolete decades ago . ) |
| 11 | After the disasters of the past few months , a result which would previously have been called disappointing will now be hailed as a triumph . |
| 12 | A second-century cremation cemetery has been uncovered south of the defended area in Swan Street ; it was claimed to have been receiving additional burials as late as the third and fourth centuries , when it must have lain within the built-up area . |
| 13 | Bozer , hitherto Minister of State ( and effectively deputy Prime Minister ) , had been appointed Foreign Minister only in February 1990 . |
| 14 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |
| 15 | Because Britain had been producing nuclear power longer than most other countries , this was a particularly acute problem . |
| 16 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 17 | Gebrec had been wearing blue slacks yesterday morning . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I had a little snigger ; it had to be fully ten minutes since the last stroke of eleven , and the thunder had been murmuring dark warnings ever since . |
| 20 | Only scavvy and looter gangs roamed the accumulated choking filth of that undercity — where , mostly buried under debris , but sometimes still exposed , antique ports had been welded shut millennia ago . |
| 21 | Mr Kemp said that so far around 90 elderly people had been found new homes most in other council-run establishments . |
| 22 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |
| 23 | Yes sir he told me that er would know because they ha had been together in prison and that he also had information that they had been planning armed robberies together . |
| 24 | Until that time the convention in painting nudes had been to omit pubic hair altogether . |
| 25 | The original purpose of the allies in Japan , following the Japanese surrender in August 1945 , had been to reform Japanese society so as to eliminate the aggressive , militaristic character of Japanese government , which had largely explained the growth of the Japanese empire between 1894 and 1943 . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've been reading strange books again , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 28 | We got specific money , in other words , the government flagged up that in the first year , there were going to be infrastructure costs , and so there was a specific allowance made for that , and we 've been recruiting gradually , not all at once , over a period of time , as the numbers of people coming into the community care system rise , we 've been recruiting new staff there . |
| 29 | I 've been having wonderful luck ever since May 25th . |
| 30 | In an effort to make life more interesting for our younger members of staff and our graduate element , I have been inviting past students back to lecture on any aspect of their current work . |