Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Glass Pig has only been open a couple of weeks , but it 's already busy and helping to break down barriers . |
| 2 | Euro Disney , whose Euro Disneyland near Paris has now been open a year , said it lost FFr1.1 billion ( $100m ) in the six months to end-March , and now needs more money to restructure FFr21 billion of debt . |
| 3 | The swings had gone and the pier had been demolished ; a few years ago the Council had given permission for a café-and-restaurant to be built , but the place had only been open a month when it caught fire and was burned out ; the Fire Brigade could n't get to it , the promenade being too narrow for their vehicles . |
| 4 | Its Nine Elms terminal had only been open a week when in 1838 the London and South-Western announced the running of eight special trains on Derby Day to Kingston , the nearest station to Epsom . |
| 5 | Sometimes , for example , a factor which is identified as the causal antecedent of an effect may be so interlinked with numerous other conditions that , while it is true that if that factor had not been present the effect would not have existed either , it is hardly illuminating . |
| 6 | He was n't being fair and he had n't been fair a year ago . |
| 7 | She 's not been asleep a minute all night ! |
| 8 | Seve 's always been convinced the Americans have got it in for him , anyway , but he 's said that about the French , the Italians , the Japanese . |