Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main considerations in deciding whether to release such a prisoner are whether he or she has been detained long enough to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence for the offence and whether the potential risk to the public is judged to be acceptable . |
| 2 | I think it clear , and indeed the Home Office Circular of 1930 explicitly states ( page 4 ) , that it is in order to secure this aim , and in recognition of the fact that a person in custody is in a specially vulnerable position , and hence particularly at a disadvantage in responding to questions in a balanced and measured way , that it has been thought safer both to prohibit questioning after a certain point , and to exclude from evidence answers given to such questioning . |
| 3 | CINEMA outside Hollywood used to come in national waves , but no longer : China has been silenced for a while , and the work emerging out of Africa has been distributed too sporadically to seem like a movement . |
| 4 | It has been used twice before to kill , and each time a single shot was fired . |
| 5 | Having the crust to attempt a poem in 100 or 120 cantos long after all mankind has been commanded never again to attempt a poem of any length , I have to stagger as I can . |
| 6 | Any present-day fan will be familiar with the Botham story , for it has been told too often to need repeating . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , Hong Kong 's flora and fauna are basically that of neighbouring China , though some islands must have been separated long enough to produce their own endemic species . |
| 8 | The reality of life at passenger-level , mentioned only indirectly , could have been examined more thoroughly to determine the efficiency of British Rail 's service delivery , surely the basis for its existence . |
| 9 | So the stick may have been used both audibly to establish speed , and visibly during the course of a piece . |
| 10 | The term " Chetniks " could only have been used very loosely to apply to them all , although in Macmillan 's diary entry on his visit to Klagenfurt he refers to the use of the word " Chetniks " to describe " guerilla forces raised by the Germans from Slovenes and … |
| 11 | However , even with their aid it is thought by some to be unlikely that the outer Moon could have been melted quickly enough to yield those highland rock samples that have given radiometric ages of about 4300 Ma and older . |
| 12 | How times changed — now someone would express their concern ove whether the thing had been cooked long enough to annihilate any salmonella ! |
| 13 | While fitting the rear offside wheel back on to Miss Clinton 's car , Jenny 's daddy had been called away suddenly to see to a tractor that had broken down on Farmer Pullen 's farm . |
| 14 | Before the land bridge to North America emerged above the waters once again they had been isolated long enough to evolve as New World monkeys whose modern descendants walk on all fours and many of whom have prehensile tails . |
| 15 | Without exception , their hair had been cropped short enough to reveal the scars underneath . |
| 16 | Would he reappear perhaps like Edwin Drood himself might have done if Mr Dickens had been spared long enough to conclude it ? |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been told once more to mind my own business . |
| 18 | These are useful if they have been constructed flexibly enough to allow for complex unusual facilities to be used if required , and thus do not negate their advantage by imposing restrictions on the designers and programmers , Structure should be built in from the beginning . |
| 19 | When the four remaining parts of the lower dome have been built high enough to form a complete circle within the walls of the square , this circle provides the basis for supporting the actual dome . |
| 20 | Bomb-grade plutonium and uranium have been kept securely enough to persuade most potential proliferators that , if they want a bomb , they will have to make their own nuclear material , not just steal or buy it . |
| 21 | Surely , Desmond Bonney argued , if the parish boundaries had been defined after the construction of the earthwork , they would have used it as the ‘ natural ’ boundary — much like motorways and railways have been used more recently to define new local authority boundaries . |
| 22 | Statements by officials , including some made by ministers in Parliament , have been used too often to mislead in connection with Ulster affairs . |
| 23 | The nuts and bolts of the deal have been put together cleverly to comply with the 1982 Cable Act and with the specific terms of the 1984 consent decree from Judge Harold Greene that set up the Baby Bells . |
| 24 | Er I would , I would echo that , that we feel that they money has been paid in for work or services done by the employer and by the er fund members themselves have contributed and I do n't think it belongs to either of those parties in any more , it 's held by the trustees to pay pensions , if for nothing it 's been put there just to pay pensions , it 's not a piggy bank for er for companies to draw out with the with their tame er trustees allowing it , it it 's money the trustees hold in in trust and I believe that 's the law at the moment and er I I think we would like to see that confirmed in any new law . |