Example sentences of "he have [been] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be Lt Col Stewart 's first public appearance since it was announced that he has been awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his courage and leadership during his tour of duty in Bosnia . |
| 2 | It will be Lt Col Stewart 's first public appearance since it was announced that he has been awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his courage and leadership during his tour of duty in Bosnia . |
| 3 | Under the Social Security Act 1971 , a man is liable to maintain his wife and children , including those of whom he has been adjudged the putative father , and a woman is liable to maintain her husband and children . |
| 4 | He had been defeated the first time , but that foray into the arena had taught him a lot . |
| 5 | He had been taught the hard lesson that you eat where there is food , because food is sustenance and without it there is failure and collapse . |
| 6 | But as he grew older , and felt the signs of decay in his mortal body , he rejoiced to think that his inner man was being renewed every day , until he should attain that ‘ being at home with the Lord ’ to which his whole Christian life was directed and of which he had been given the Holy Spirit as a guarantee ( 2 Cor. 4 : 16f , 5:1ff , 5,8 ) . |
| 7 | His education was placed in the hands of a series of military tutors , and before the pathetic little boy was seven he had been appointed the youngest corporal in the Prussian Army and made to congratulate his father on his thirtieth birthday in full uniform . |
| 8 | When , each morning of that first anxious week , Colonel de Barescut attended the sickbed at Souilly to report on the events of the previous night , he had been asked the same question : ‘ What 's new on the Left Bank ? ’ |
| 9 | Like his brothers Richard agreed to accept rather less than he had been offered the previous autumn : half the revenues of Aquitaine , but this time only two residences , and apparently unfortified ones . |
| 10 | This year , he had been offered the same opportunity , but at twice the price . |
| 11 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 12 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 13 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 14 | ‘ He had been shown the yellow card and the referee had had a word with him and although he did n't like being substituted , I did it for his own good . |