Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun prp] have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Celtic belt ’ was heavily forested in those days , as was Italy in pre-Roman times , and two large , rococo-ceilinged halls in the Palazzo Grassi have been turned into forests . |
| 2 | On 4 May the news came through that the General Belgrano had been sunk with over 350 Argentine sailors killed . |
| 3 | All the tension Gascoigne had been suffering was suddenly released , and he celebrated by sprinting to the sidelines . |
| 4 | Norsk Data 's board will recommend the solution to shareholders and the Oslo Bourse has been informed — not surprisingly , it is now considering permanently delisting the company 's shares . |
| 5 | The Malesian region saw a rise in navigation and seamanship unrivalled elsewhere until recent times , so that by 1500 BC , or earlier , the south-west Pacific had been reached . |
| 6 | Etna has two summit craters , the Main Crater and the North-East Crater ( both lying along the line of a fissure ) , and the North-East Crater had been showing mild Strombolian activity for many years prior to the 1971 eruption . |
| 7 | That game proved to be the turning point in the club 's fortunes , and although there have been too many false dawns already in a thus far unsuccessful return , maybe last night 's victory is the break Kendall has been waiting for . |
| 8 | Bewilderedly she struggled to remember the words Guy had been muttering , but they had been lost in the half-sleeping state which had dulled her mind , and , later , barely heard over the unfamiliar demands of newly awakened desire . |
| 9 | We wait now hopefully for news that the Nez Perces have been struck hard and fatally . |
| 10 | The £750,000 Payton has been ruled out for two weeks with a torn hamstring sustained in the FA Cup replay defeat by Portsmouth . |
| 11 | In this machine , some of the work Unisys has been carrying out with academic partners such as Caltec , JPL and with French microkernel specialists Chorus Systemes , will come to light for the first time . |
| 12 | A BLUE shark which has spent his summer holidays in the Celtic Sea has been recaptured almost four years later and 3,600 miles away . |
| 13 | Despite continuing reservations concerning " character " issues — throughout the campaign Clinton had been assailed over various aspects of his private life and judgment — there was evidence throughout April that many senior Democrats had accepted the inevitability of his nomination and had begun closing ranks around him in preparation for the campaign against Bush . |
| 14 | G. The tourist industry of the South West has been growing since the railways were built in the last century . |
| 15 | France 's continuing policy of carrying out nuclear tests in the South Pacific has been condemned by the governments of Australia , New Zealand and Papua New Guinea . |
| 16 | By the 1980s the annual flow of water into the Aral Sea had been reduced to " virtually nothing " , according to the report . |
| 17 | The Aral Sea has been shrinking since the 1960s , when water from its tributaries began to be diverted for agricultural irrigation in what were then the Soviet republics of Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . |
| 18 | Three quarters of an inch of small print by waste disposal company Leigh Environments Ltd , lost among the Public Notices in the Manchester Evening News in April 1990 , complying with the legal advertisement of application to the Trafford Park Development Corporation to erect and operate toxic and clinical waste incinerators burning 26,000 tons p.a. in Nash Road at the Barton end of the Park , spurred into action several individuals who were aware of the health and life threatening potentiality of incinerating bitumens , acid tars , industrial cleaning fluids , engineering oils , solvents , agricultural wastes , fungicides , paints and above all polychlorinated biphenyls which are dioxin and furan generating , highly toxic , carcinogenic , teratogenic , difficult to destroy ( shades of Vietnam 's ‘ agent orange ’ and Italy 's Sevaso disaster ) , the incineration of which in ships in the North Sea had been banned by the E.E.C . |
| 19 | New laws to protect the North Sea have been promised . |
| 20 | I was not far from where the boy William had been murdered . |
| 21 | Despite excellent character-witnesses , among them Elizabeth , who delivered an impassioned plea on her maid 's behalf , Justine stood condemned by one piece of circumstantial evidence : a locket containing a picture of her late mistress had been found in her belongings — a locket which the child William had been wearing only the day before the murder . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , the poor actors who are facing long stints on the Costa Eldorado have been told by the BBC that if they want to come home on breaks or holidays , they will have to pay their own fare . |
| 23 | Perhaps Mrs Longhill had already written during the days Ruth had been confined to bed . |
| 24 | What can be done about discrimination against Travellers , given that travelling people in the Glen Road have been denied the fundamental right of official halting sites which should have been provided by Belfast City Council ? |
| 25 | The probe into St Patrick 's juvenile offenders centre on the Glen Road has been launched following a complaint by a former inmate — now living in England — that he was sexually assaulted there ten years ago . |
| 26 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
| 27 | For the moment Dostoevsky has been sidetracked by his immediate anxieties . |
| 28 | She had not been surprised to learn that the accountant Morris had been proved innocent of any crime and had pointed the finger at Spencer Grenfell . |
| 29 | Almost a million dolphins have been killed over the past 20 years , and the populations of dolphins and porpoises in the Black Sea have been decimated . |
| 30 | The Rios RISC has been cleaned up to create the PowerPC , focusing on just what 's important for the desktop market . |