Example sentences of "have be [verb] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from re-investing in his own business Riddle has been buying industrial shares while the market is depressed , presumably on the assumption that there are better times ahead . |
| 2 | He is a former partner of Gaffer Hexam 's , but Hexam repudiates him when he finds that Riderhood has been robbing live bodies as well as dead ones . |
| 3 | Traditionally the practice has been to abandon old pits when it became uneconomic to go deeper , but to return to them when the price for clay improved or when a technical innovation made extraction cheaper . |
| 4 | For a decade now the developed world has been celebrating African music while altogether denying its otherness . |
| 5 | ‘ I must have been feeling manic depressive when I had this done . |
| 6 | The tin-mining towns of Camborne and Redruth on the north coast of Cornwall had been facing major redundancies since the 1985 plunge in tin prices . |
| 7 | A statement by the Nigerian presidency on May 17 said that Siyad Barre had been given temporary asylum since no other African state had offered to accept him . |
| 8 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 9 | We 've been doing French art as well , so anyway it 's an afternoon out that 's what I |
| 10 | This has meant that dead animals are left by the roadside for the council to collect , and the local slaughterhouses have been receiving sick animals as some farmers try to use it as a replacement for the knacker 's yard . |
| 11 | The eight residents have been given alternative accommodation until the building is made safe . |
| 12 | The activities of building societies and banks have been given prime consideration when assessing the appropriate definition of money and the problem of implementation of monetary control ( Bank of England , Dec. 1984 ) . |
| 13 | They have been called magic bullets because of their use in the treatment of cancer . |
| 14 | Leaders of the Muslim ‘ parliament ’ disclosed the plans exclusively to The People after it was learned that unscrupulous British dealers have been selling ordinary meat as Halal |
| 15 | NINETY Albanian children have been refused British visas because they do not hold full passports . |
| 16 | We have been making great progress as people sometimes prefer to talk to civilians . ’ |
| 17 | Outside , the Chelsea Pensioner pub would have have been doing good business if it had any drinks to sell , but it was purely decorative ; part of garden by Hereford Wyevale Garden Centre called the outer sanctum which won a silver-gilt medal . |