Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Software for Free has been written especially to help you make that decision without having to plough through mountains of Shareware and Public Domain Software first . |
| 2 | The department has been forced recently to increase its prices but will continue to offer its services to the Governing Bodies of Sport at a heavily subsidised rate , well below that of competitive commercial rates . |
| 3 | Indeed , rather than attempting to teach a chimpanzee to communicate like a human , it might have been considered easier to teach it to communicate like a dog . |
| 4 | Thousands of pounds of tax-payers money would n't have been wasted just to have them settle a week before trial . |
| 5 | The pavements had been cobbled here to give it a quaint feel , and coach-loads of tourists were shuffling along with cameras dangling and guides chivvying . |
| 6 | Leicestershire enter the table , and might have qualified last year if an adjustment had been made then to bring their figures into line with practices adopted by all the other counties . |
| 7 | The same bearded man whom we had already met said that it lay next to the mosque , behind some barbed wire which had been put there to protect it . |
| 8 | Barnsley 's John Mayock , who had been fancied possibly to go one better in Toronto than his silver in last year 's European Indoor Championships , ran out of steam as the pace hotted up in the 3,000m final , and could only finish sixth , in 7:54.41 , some four seconds behind Italian winner , Gennaro Di Napoli . |
| 9 | I am sure William no longer thinks you 've been sent here to poison my wine , or whatever dark thoughts he was harbouring . ’ |
| 10 | Stéphane Dumas looks for a soul in things that have been thrown away to continue their life as rubbish . |
| 11 | The only variation is in the project for elderly people , where the questions have been changed slightly to make them , more appropriate to their needs and expectations . |
| 12 | It is very common and all kinds of reasons have been put forward to explain its occurrence — from stress to microbial attack . |
| 13 | Neither does the statement , ‘ All those coloured glass pictures of people which you see in the windows of churches , have been put there to remind us of the good which those people did during their lives . |