Example sentences of "have [adv] be [adj] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly the real contents of the phial will have to remain a mystery as the Roman Catholic church adamantly refuses to open the phial for scientific investigation , but as the Archbishop performed the rite last year and said ‘ … no chemist has yet been able to reproduce this phenomenon ’ , the Italian chemists were chuckling . |
| 2 | Humanist transgression in the name of authenticity has never been able to comprehend this other kind of transgression , that performed in the name of inversion , perversion , and reinscription . |
| 3 | From the 1650s onwards , judges had ordered convicts to be transported , but they had only been able to do this by passing a death sentence and then getting it commuted . |
| 4 | First , it was particularly interesting to find changes in the IMHV after passive avoidance training because Gabriel Horn had already been able to identify this as a key brain region for imprinting . |
| 5 | But the Americans have only been able to perform this leadership role because other people are paying , without demanding control of the operation . |
| 6 | M67 is in the field with Alpha ( 4.2 ) ; it is said to be visible with the naked eye , but I have never been able to confirm this , though with binoculars it is very easy indeed . |
| 7 | There is said to be a rough period of about 100 days , but I have never been able to confirm this . |
| 8 | It is said — and I have never been able to verify this figure — 70% , and not all were shot down by the fighters , although the majority of aircraft were . |
| 9 | I have never been able to understand this preoccupation with ministerial holidays . |