Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fiona admits she still does not know how to check the performance of the fund and that the only information she has received from the company is the annual report and accounts . |
| 2 | No mention is ever made of any of the basic principles of homoeopathy and the undergraduate who has heard of the subject is likely to qualify with an inbuilt prejudice against it which will be difficult for him or her to overcome later on . |
| 3 | ‘ By this you know the Spirit of God : every spirit that confesses that Jesus has come in the flesh is of God , and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not of God ’ ( 4:2 ) . |
| 4 | The way that the church has grown in the meantime is simply through word of mouth . |
| 5 | The residue of liberty just gets smaller and smaller , until eventually , in some areas , it is extinguished altogether , with freedom becoming no more than the power to do that which an official has decided for the time being not to prohibit . |
| 6 | Regardless of a critical report it had itself commissioned , the World Bank has decided for the time being to continue financing the Sardar Sarovar dam and canal project on the Narmada river in India . |
| 7 | Indeed , some families will want to talk about the present , believing that what has occurred in the past is of little or no consequence . |
| 8 | The Advisory Committee has agreed with the Director 's proposal-either as it stood or subject to specified modifica-tion ; |
| 9 | The massacre has sabotaged for the time being any resumption of negotiations between Mandela and de Klerk . |
| 10 | One factor which has contributed to the role being played by women , is their major contribution to the autonomous social and economic structures developed by Palestinians in defiance of occupation . |
| 11 | One that has emerged from the silence is the Model 735 which , like the other models , is expected to use a 99MHz version of HP 's PA 7100 chip . |
| 12 | It may be that it is those least disposed to commit suicide who join the cult in the first place , but at least the systematic comparison of variables has led to the question being raised . |
| 13 | It has been felt for some time that the procedure and forms relating to the granting of legal aid in criminal causes could be improved , and the introduction of legal aid in the District Courts has led to the position being scrutinised and a new procedure and application form introduced . |
| 14 | In fact , this arrangement has led to the family being called the Tripletail family , where the second parts of the dorsal and anal fin are , respectively , directly above and below the caudle fin . |
| 15 | However , the presence of the oil and microtechnology industries has resulted in the picture being less bleak in Scotland . |
| 16 | yeah I think what , what has happened at the moment is that he would be almost helpless because there are so many things that are wrong with the world that it seems to be because we get so much information as a |
| 17 | He said : ‘ What has happened to the charity is terrible , volunteers were in late each night sorting goods . |
| 18 | Wired purports to be about America not just Belushi , but this is trite stuff about decadence in Tinseltown ; what it has to say about the nation is nugatory , unless you count a depressing scene in which an audience collapses in laughter while the Voice of its Generation ( as Bluto in Animal House ) stuffs a sandwich down his pants . |
| 19 | ‘ Wired purports to be about America not just Belushi , but this is trite stuff about decadence in Tinseltown ; what it has to say about the nation is nugatory . ’ |
| 20 | The boom in buying second homes in Europe has ended for the time being — the buyers wo n't be back until the UK economy recovers |
| 21 | What has changed for the stockman is more often connected with the intensification of livestock production . |
| 22 | But following the changes in Eastern Europe and the virtual ending of the cold war this particular danger has receded for the time being , and as a result a new process of gradual disarmament by the major nuclear powers has begun . |
| 23 | The weeds that we 'd uprooted in the morning were shrivelled and brown ; the earth looked as if nothing had ever lived in it . |
| 24 | I picked another horse , in the race before — I 'd got to the bookie 's at about half-past two , I suppose . |
| 25 | All he 'd got for the mite was a tatty old kite |
| 26 | The reason he 'd gone over the wall was simple . |
| 27 | The vaults were then changed at night or when the bus had finished service and then were counted by a different means , they were counted by machine coin counters and er so , instead of say erm what , sixty or seventy conductors paying in their money , this was all erm on the bus , so there may have been five or six drivers had worked that bus that day and all the takings he 'd taken during the time was all in this night safe in this vault . |
| 28 | But the contact sheet she 'd taken from the office was not in her bag , not in any of the half dozen dead newspapers lying round the floor , not under any of the piles of flung-down clothes , not under the sofa , not in the bin . |
| 29 | Frankly , the interest we 've had to pay on the loan is very high . ’ |
| 30 | Anyone not having dined with the captain is not allowed to shoot in the afternoon . |