Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deregulation — cutting red tape , in Mr Major 's preferred phrase — is easier said than done and far from politically sexy : much has been cut already and Brussels weaves new rules by the week . |
| 2 | A search for what was thought to be a body has been called off after police found an aircraft cargo net . |
| 3 | But some pantomime has been called off because Snow White |
| 4 | Alan McLeary 's proposed £400,000 transfer to Wimbledon following a six-match loan period has been called off because Dons manager Joe Kinnear has been told he must sell first . |
| 5 | It has been contended accordingly that managers should be allowed to determine for themselves how thoroughly they need investigate the background to a transaction , since judicial interference in this process is likely to lead only to wasteful investigations and excessive documentation in order to provide a defence if litigation ensues . |
| 6 | It has been argued persuasively that passages from the Bible which had been taken as prohibiting gay sex were either mistranslated or taken out of context ; that , in any case , the Bible could not be read as a set of rules to be unthinkingly obeyed ; that love and justice in sexual relationships mattered more than gender ; and that homophobia itself was sinful . |
| 7 | These advances in molecular genetics mean that by using a combination of haplotype and mutation analysis prenatal diagnosis is now possible in the great majority of couples who already have a child with phenylketonuria , although this has been undertaken infrequently because paediatricians and parents see early treated children as ‘ healthy . ’ |
| 8 | Since the beginning of this year Mr Chatichai Choonhavan 's coalition government has been agonising over whether General Chaovalit Yongchaiyudh will resign as commander-in-chief of Thailand 's armed forces . |
| 9 | It has been pointed out that investors are primarily motivated to invest in a company 's shares on the basis of the company 's likely profitability ; not whether the management engage in insider dealing . |
| 10 | The text does , however , refer to a rescript , and it has been pointed out that oddities in the structure and language may be due to incorporating that . |
| 11 | Recently , however , it has been pointed out that mansi absi were often registered as owing dues , which were always in cash rather than labour services . |
| 12 | It has been pointed out that incense was given to Jesus at his birth , and perfume poured over him to prepare him for his death . |
| 13 | ( It has been pointed out that Governments tend to speak of ‘ subsidising railways ’ and ‘ investing in roads ’ — which shows a clear difference of attitude . ) |
| 14 | What is , I mean what is being discussed it seems to me is , is a , is a dilemma that has been debated ever since people became interested in social change , |
| 15 | An application for a Makro card has been turned down and recommendation received that the one belonging to the Village Association should be used . |
| 16 | An application for a Makro card has been turned down and recommendation received that the one belonging to the Village Association should be used . |
| 17 | The further expansion of that excellent scheme has a great deal to recommend it , but the hon. Gentleman must make representations to Glasgow district council , which has been allocated more than £101 million this year in respect of housing revenue account for capital investment . |
| 18 | Mr Parrott , who has a Gunners tatoo on his right forearm , said : ‘ My Sunday League side has been doing better than Arsenal . |
| 19 | The battle has been going on since Ryan , 15 , died in a road accident . |
| 20 | In Art History the rehabilitation of artists and bodies of work which have been overlooked has been going on since Vasari made such a good job of classifying Florentine art that all other art in Italy and beyond has had to be defined , at least until this century , and at some level even now , in relation to Vasari 's classifications , or at least in relation to the model of stylistic evolution which he outlined . |
| 21 | Mr Smith has been married twice and Andrew is his son by his first marriage . |
| 22 | Mr Smith has been married twice and Andrew is his son by his first marriage . |
| 23 | in the National Health Service clinician budgeting has been introduced so that doctors ' responsibility for clinical practice will be matched by the responsibility for management and financial consequences of their decisions ; |
| 24 | It promises to be the toughest league year yet for rugby union … the first division has been changed so that teams play each other at home and away … which means more games |
| 25 | Governments , however , have on occasions intervened in foreign exchange markets to influence their respective rates of exchange , although a greater variety of currencies has been used now that exchange rates are no longer pegged exclusively to the dollar . |
| 26 | BEN Jones , an elderly lawyer and nutmeg farmer , has been sworn in as Grenada 's prime minister after the death of Herbert Blaize , who had ruled the southern Caribbean spice island since the withdrawal of US invasion troops five years ago . |
| 27 | The area has been sealed off and police marksmen have surrounded a local shop . |
| 28 | EILEEN Roddenberry , the ex-wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry , has been awarded more than $4.5 million in residuals and profits from the highly successful television show and its spin-offs . |
| 29 | This has been configured so that visitors to the Museum can see in the cockpit and operate the flying controls to see for themselves the effects of stick on elevators and rudder . |
| 30 | It has been shown experimentally that binding of lactoferrin by anti-lactoferrin antibodies increases the amount and duration of hydroxyl radical formation by granulocytes . |