Example sentences of "have [adv] be [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Twenty-five years of exploitation have since been repaid by thirty years of largesse , but with dismal result : a situation which Professor Marshall Goldman of Harvard has likened to trying to cure a half-starved baby by overfeeding in old age .
2 Club sailors in the one-design classes have long been proving to one another just who 's best .
3 These types of record have all been used at one time or another by the authors .
4 A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change .
5 The defences at Alcester have only been found at one point on the north-west side by the river , and are of two periods with a wall supported by timber piles , close enough to the river bank as not to need a ditch system at this point .
6 Third , there are epistemological and ideological problems associated with the bringing together of issues which have hitherto been studied in one or other of the natural or social sciences .
7 After April they intend to use the standard discharge procedures that have already been piloted with one general practice , as mentioned above .
8 The MacBride Principles have already been adopted by 24 states .
9 Hosepipe or sprinkler bans have already been imposed by four water companies in the Thames area : Three Valleys , Essex , Sutton and East Surrey .
10 Charcoal and bone remains have already been dated at 20 500 years old and further remains found beneath these are now being analysed .
11 Staff in the travel business have already been cut by 15 per cent .
12 As between two registrable charges which have not been registered within 21 days , the first to register will obtain priority and a charge is not void against a person taking an interest in property which is made expressly subject to the charge .
13 If enquiries in such cases have not been completed within 3 months ( for registered and insured letters ) or 6 months ( for ordinary letters ) then we will normally settle the claim ourselves .
14 This simple audit , which took less than nine hours , has led us , as a first step , to chase up all notes that have not been received within 12 weeks .
15 If goods have not been delivered within 30 days following expiry of an agreed time limit or if there is not an agreed time limit within 60 says from the time the carrier took over the goods , this shall be taken as evidence of the loss of the goods .
16 WORKERS at Monktonhall Colliery , who have not been paid for seven weeks , are to receive financial assistance from Lothian Regional Council to fund an independent study into the pit 's viability .
17 Finally , anonymised records have not been produced before 1991 in Great Britain .
18 Political parties have technically been banned since 1957 , but the Moslem Brotherhood ( which commands a bloc of 22 in the House of Representatives ) , has charitable status and is therefore exempt from the ban .
19 Ours is a much older organisation , but we have always been handicapped in two essential points , namely , ( 1 ) the goodwill and help of people of influence , and ( 2 ) want of funds .
20 More modest , but important , increases in the productivity of another root crop , cassava , have also been achieved by thousands of small farmers in western Nigeria .
21 The team have also been called for 11 holding penalties in the last two games .
22 Tenders have also been called for 7,500 hp Co-Co two-voltage Railfreight locomotives capable of operating on both sides of the Channel , and BREL ( 1988 ) Ltd has already submitted initial designs .
23 Aerodynamics have also been improved by 10 per cent , although the overall Cd is still an unimpressive 0.35 .
24 ‘ The fact that we have now been blessed with two little ones must not blind us to our obligations , nor cause us to lower our standards . ’
25 These schemes , which originally ran for one year , have now been extended to two years .
26 That 's enough for the I R A to have made him a target , five employees of the firm have now been killed since nineteen eighty five .
27 Production facilities have now been concentrated in six well-invested factories .
28 In geomorphology assessments of human impact have really been focused upon four themes if one includes consideration of hydrology and hydrogeomorphology at the same time .
29 Barbara Allsopp and her husband Alan have n't been seen for three days .
30 Most of his staff are currently on strike because they have n't been paid for two months , so Soliz is going personally to open the new group and give the first lesson .
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