Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I am taking this line merely because I have been corrupted by a philosophical training and can not come off the fence . |
| 2 | Parents have been warned of a two-month delay for pelican lights at Southmoor , Cumbria . |
| 3 | Hundreds of people campaigning against VAT on dometic fuel have been protesting in a torchlit demonstration in Glasgow 's George Square . |
| 4 | Most historical accounts have been influenced by a long sociological tradition going back to Frederic le Play 's L'Organisation de la famille selon le vrai modèle signalé par l'histoire de toutes les races et de tous les temps ( 1871 ) , which saw a broad change in the family from the extended form in the middle ages to nuclear form in modernity . |
| 5 | Transverse effects have been examined in a few instances . |
| 6 | Since the 1950s the main achievements in Bach research have been based on a new examination of music sources . |
| 7 | All of this makes sense in relation to the historical context of England in particular where , on MacFarlane 's ( 1978 ) evidence , social and economic structures have been based upon a strong sense of individualism , and not upon traditional ties of kinship , for at least 600 years . |
| 8 | To make it easier still , some have been fitted with a Hubmatic system , which raises and lowers the rear of the vehicle . |
| 9 | Typical industries utilizing absorption as a method of odour control are metallurgical industries , plastic/production , waste incineration plants , animal by-product industries , and it is reported that absorption scrubber units have been fitted with a fair degree of success on plant processing meat for pet food manufacture and for the production of animal feedstuffs . |
| 10 | All four Darlington candidates have been invited to a political debate on the Tyne Tees TV 's Point of Order . |
| 11 | They have been arranged in a Western home by the Japanese wife of Balthus , the great French painter . |
| 12 | These points have been recognised in a practical way by the existing UK tax structure , for example the zero rate of VAT on children 's clothing . |
| 13 | I know one or two people had begun to despair of me ever getting better at one point but , basically , I have been blessed with a strong constitution . |
| 14 | Because these are so individually made , they 're rather like instruments which have been devised for a specific individual , and so to criticise them for details of design is hardly fair . |
| 15 | Another problem is the fact that most systems of guide-lines have been devised with a limited range of penalties in mind , usually just imprisonment or probation , and it would obviously be difficult to adapt the principle to cater for the plethora of measures available to English sentencers . |
| 16 | Medics have been cited as a key example of a modern breed of technical expert , instrumental in extending and deepening state intervention into new and familiar areas . |
| 17 | For 3 centuries , the Glosters have been united by a unique bond . |
| 18 | You and your wife have been separated for a continuous two-year period , and you both agree to the divorce . |
| 19 | Barred galaxies have been recognized as a separate class of galaxies since the 1920s , and in 1964 de Vaucouleurs suggested that the Milky Way contains a bar to explain the observed noncircular motions of the atomic gas at the centre . |
| 20 | Plans have been prepared by a local architect for a clubhouse , traditional pavilion and all-weather nets . |
| 21 | The great paintings of Europe since the Renaissance , even the major landscapes , have been conceived within a finite box , They are interiors , constrained by a rigid three dimensional matrix within which movement is permitted . |
| 22 | Venice 's churches , recently threatened with closure ( see The Art Newspaper No. 18 , May 1992 , p.1 ) , have been reprieved by a new scheme approved by the Ministero dei Beni culturali . |
| 23 | And now these fears have been compounded by a sixth profitability study by accountants Spicer & Oppenheim whose gloomy conclusions may well prolong the sector 's agonies further . |
| 24 | The cumulative value of transactions covered by a set of standard terms may be greatly in excess of the value of any individual conveyancing transaction and , although it may be possible to amend the terms for future transactions if problems emerge in use , once the terms have been incorporated into a particular contract , unlike a pleading , there is no chance to amend them for the purposes of that contract . |
| 25 | The pond , sluices and some of the buildings can be seen today , but the majority of the surviving buildings have been incorporated in a private home . |
| 26 | Picture to yourself the furore which they will make in the world when people read on the title-page that they have been composed by a seven-year-old child ; and when the sceptics are challenged to test him , as he already has been , imagine the sensation when he asks someone to write down a minuet or some tune or other and then immediately and without touching the clavier writes in the bass and , if it is wanted , the second violin part … every day God performs fresh miracles through this child . |
| 27 | I am nothing but a stomach of cheap tin , empty but for the clanking of a few tin cans which have been squashed by a gargantuan hand and thrown together . |
| 28 | This is because the intragranular pores have been occluded by a late-stage halite cement ( Fig. 29a ; Clark 1980a ) and , only after washing the core plugs in freshwater , were porosities obtained that were more typical of the platform carbonates . |
| 29 | Over four hundred carpet designs have been illustrated in a new brochure which now forms part of the sales aids used by the Contract Sales Force . |
| 30 | ‘ You see , Doctor Masters , ’ he continued , ‘ we have been placed in a difficult position , but that is no reflection on your qualities as a good doctor . |