Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That unhinging extended back at least as far as the Japanese attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 , a crisis which allowed Franklin Roosevelt finally to break free from the congressional restraints on executive action that had been operative in the inter war period . |
| 2 | We shall continue to put pressure on local authorities with stock that has been empty for more than a year . |
| 3 | 8. ‘ … are the only organizations that have been able to do what they do at all , even though it might seem that what they do is not that difficult or mysterious a thing ’ . |
| 4 | But it is clear that if , as we have said , death from suicide is relatively common in Britain and most funeral services take place within the Christian context , then it would seem that the church needs to look at this whole subject again with a great deal more openness than has been possible up to now . |
| 5 | But my experience is also , if we 'd bought the books that had been printed neighbours in the first place , no one would have noticed the difference . |
| 6 | He built his shed which , made as it was of old floorboards from a couple of hovels that had been empty for years , resembled a shack . |
| 7 | We move on next day over hard packed snow that has been wind-blown into flutes and columns . |
| 8 | But there was humour in her tone , and a sparkle in her lovely eyes , and the mouth that had been unhappy for so long now curved in a smile . |
| 9 | What enraged the liberals was that this involved placing political appointees at much lower levels of the hierarchies than had been usual , to increase the positive responsiveness of the bureaucracy to his policies . |
| 10 | For Said , the problem amounts simply to historicism and , the universalising and self-validating that has been endemic to it' : |
| 11 | It quite frequently happens that a horse that has been used to drinking out of a dam or stream , will always refuse water from a trough or bucket , irrespective of how thirsty it may be . |
| 12 | It was less crowded at the rear of the room and he thought of pausing there , where he could watch la Principessa and still draw a breath of air that was not perfumed half to death , but then he patted the slender cigar in the breast pocket of the dinner-jacket that had been hand-tailored to fit his sinew-hardened body and decided that only a whiff of tobacco would fully cleanse his nostrils of the mix of scents that hung in the over-heated room . |
| 13 | The trend towards equality of attainment is especially marked in schools that have been comprehensive for a long time . |
| 14 | He spelt out a clear conception of force as the cause of acceleration rather than motion , a conception that had been present in a somewhat confused way in the writings of Galileo and Kepler . |
| 15 | The IRA claimed the man , although a Catholic , was a ‘ hit man and intelligence officer ’ for the extreme Protestant Ulster Freedom Fighters and had been involved in a number of gun attacks on nationalists and republicans . |
| 16 | This first example illustrates an impulsive overdose taken by a woman who had experienced a recent loss and had been unable to discuss her problems with her family . |
| 17 | Only to find , first , that genuinely ill as he was , he had missed the local paper saying the psychopath had been caught , and that the compulsive liar Brenda had been telling everyone he was her lover , a rumour that had got back to his wife whose mac he had by mistake worn during the murder and had been unable to destroy . |
| 18 | But Ian Shiels , who works in the warehouse and has been responsible for football activity in the past , is aware of this and is hoping for better things to come . |
| 19 | Many have seen this apparition , some claim to have hit her with their cars and to have been astounded to discover no evidence of a body on further investigation . |
| 20 | This is a very lethal condition and has been responsible for a great many accidents and much loss of life . |
| 21 | Short 's preparation has been under way for six months and has been intensive . |
| 22 | I am still under the influence of Milton 's potent spell cast in the first two books and have been unable to find a successful remedy in the following books to bring . |
| 23 | So much so that she was not left alone with him , but that afternoon the mother had had to go shopping and the child had returned from a swimming session in the baths and had been alone with the man . |
| 24 | Erm and he 's saying that you know to start with basically education has always been the preserve of the landlords , er the peasants have n't had anything to do with education , have always been poor illiterate peasants erm and now he 's saying that because the landlords have been overthrown erm suddenly peasants er have , you know , are forming erm schools and have been able to be taught various things . |
| 25 | English Nature has been opposed to peat extraction but has been powerless to prevent it . |
| 26 | Britain is due to have four submarines armed with the new Tridents but has been worried that recent votes in the Senate to cut funding for production of the missile could delay delivery of the weapons , scheduled to start next year , to the Royal Navy . |
| 27 | The issue resurfaced almost immediately , however , in the form of a sexually explicit interview published by the Star ( a supermarket tabloid which had originally published the Nichols allegations ) , with a state employee , Gennifer Flowers , one of the woman named by Nichols as having been involved with Clinton . |
| 28 | When I was approached over Westland , it was by some of the banks and institutions that had been involved in the John Brown affair . |
| 29 | In 1963 , Butler and Stokes began a series of surveys which set a new pattern , and a new standard , for the study of voting behaviour in Britain : their sample was large , nation-wide , and was interviewed several times between 1963 and 1970 ; and the authors were concerned to apply a rigour that had been absent from most of the earlier single constituency studies of electoral choice . |
| 30 | His social and economic situation continues to be regulated by the kind of disciplines that have been familiar to successive generations of workers on the land — ; poverty , the lack of alternative employment opportunities , the intense localism , the dependency for jobs and housing on local farmers . |