Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her daughter , Lucy Packer ( 1970 ) besides mothering three sons has been appointed Head of Personnel at the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 2 | THE first chief executive in the history of the Scottish health service , Don Cruickshank , has been appointed director-general of telecommunications . |
| 3 | Someone who has been training horses for years once told me that the most important thing is to keep your youngster ‘ thinking forwards ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Spencer has been taking money from customers and only entering a part of the amounts in the books . |
| 5 | In one sense this kind of thing has been taking place for centuries . |
| 6 | A QUIET revolt has been taking place in courtrooms across America . |
| 7 | For instance , the chairman of an Italian company that Morton acquired in the 1970s has been given responsibility for adhesives throughout the region . |
| 8 | Hanson has been earning megabucks for decades ; his personal wealth is estimated at around £100m and speculation is rife that before he retires he will go out with a final spectacular takeover . |
| 9 | The Department has been organising seminars for writers , publishers and booksellers for the last fifteen years . |
| 10 | We are returning , by another route , to Minsky 's suggestion that the evolutionary role of consciousness has been to give access to modules or levels , otherwise inaccessible , so as to debug , reprogram or retrain them . |
| 11 | Diverted traffic has been causing chaos on roads . |
| 12 | ‘ Mankind has been seeking proof for centuries . ’ |
| 13 | Backed by the government , the Natural Environment Resources Council ( NERC ) , has been conducting tests into plants , water and sediment from a ship travelling the North Sea . |
| 14 | A man accused of murder has been granted bail by magistrates . |
| 15 | The decision provoked the polytechnics to say they would review the future of national bargaining , a move which has been gaining support among employers since the polytechnics gained their independence earlier this year . |
| 16 | The trend has been to increase differences between institutions rather than to treat them equally . |
| 17 | Simon Sherwood has been breathing fire about Dragons Den for some time now and could not disguise his delight when the Furry Glen gelding burnt off Musthaveaswig by three lengths at Uttoxeter last month . |
| 18 | SEVE BALLESTEROS yesterday extended the hand of sympathy to Scotland 's leading golfer , Colin Montgomerie , who has been fined £1,000 for comments he made about last week 's Moroccan Open . |
| 19 | Chester manager Harry McNally has been fined £150 plus costs by the FA for making ‘ improper comments ’ to a linesman in a match against Darlington . |
| 20 | A has been paid wages of £12,000 and B has been paid £6,000 in wages . |
| 21 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 22 | It was only when I did n't , and we 'd been making love without contraceptives for months and months , that I decided he must have been right . ’ |
| 23 | It 's you know and my pride was getting a little bit dented that I 'd been selling market for years suddenly I was n't doing this . |
| 24 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 25 | He would have been supplying booze to restaurants and nightclubs . |
| 26 | We should have been shown excerpts from Wasps v Leicester and Gloucester v Bath , not to mention Neath v Bath ; though the niggly Harlequins v Wasps match would have put the indulgent enthusiasm even of Starmer-Smith under some strain . |
| 27 | A more radical approach would have been to introduce scales of costs into the High Court . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , they must have been selling flowers for ages , Luke . |
| 29 | Technically , Harvard dealers should not have been selling stock to clients who had not dealt three times with the company , unless they had sent out written information about the stock . |
| 30 | It is enough that there should have been growing pockets of households within the income range £50 to £200 a year , sufficient to have amounted to around 15 per cent of the population in 1750 and 20 to 25 per cent by 1780 . |