Example sentences of "[verb] have [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of relatives a person may be expected to have is of importance to all students of kinship and the family in the past and in the present , and especially to those concerned with kinship support of the elderly . |
| 2 | They were successfully raised and after being carefully examined and analysed with carbon dating techniques , they appear to have been under construction around 1500 BC — that was at the same time as Stonehenge was built . |
| 3 | His financial interests appear to have been in land and minerals . |
| 4 | Though committed to increasing the number of bishops in England since the council of Hertford in 672 ( HE IV , 5 ) , he did not attempt ( so far as is known ) to partition Wilfrid 's vast diocese of York until Ecgfrith quarrelled with Wilfrid and expelled him in 678 and even then king and archbishop appear to have been in agreement about the subdivision ( HE IV , 12 : V , 19 , 24 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) . |
| 5 | On Nov. 24 the Indian government accepted the appointment of Chakra Bastola as Nepali ambassador to India after the Bihar state government dropped charges against him for receipt of Rs3,000,000 claimed to have been on board a Royal Nepal Airlines flight which was hijacked to Forbesganj in June 1971 . |
| 6 | Government attempts to restrict the sale of gin in 1736 are usually considered to have been behind disturbances in that year , but these also involved the resentment of building workers and weavers at being displaced from employment by the cheaper Irish . |
| 7 | The pair were reported to have been at odds for some time with one major area of disagreement believed to concern a £2.2m Venables attempt to land England defender Des Walker from Sampdoria . |
| 8 | Ekoku was reported to have been at Carrow Road last night for talks over a possible £700,000 transfer before the transfer deadline this afternoon . |
| 9 | A person who has the right to immediate possession of the land and enters in exercise of that right , is then deemed to have been in possession ever since the accrual of the right of entry . |
| 10 | Advertising manager Peter Matthews confirmed the review , which he says has been under way for some time . |
| 11 | Some complete buildings are advertised in the financial press although for most investors who can not afford to purchase an entire building the way to participate has been through enterprise zone property unit trusts . |
| 12 | If I 'd been in Bill 's position I , or if we 'd had been in Bill 's position , we 'd have done the same as well . |
| 13 | With fewer of those serving having been to Sunday school and with the small number of hymns learnt at school , the repertoire is very limited . |
| 14 | This is most common in America , and all the examples I have seen have been in books printed there . |
| 15 | ‘ Titron does n't appear to have been in port for over two years . |
| 16 | By virtue of this , there does not appear to have been in Ireland any large-scale persecution of heretics . |
| 17 | This however would appear to have been in combat with Bf110s , rather than Bf109s . |
| 18 | The said Steve , the Mountie went on , seemed to have been in bed asleep at the time of his murder , and the Ontario police were wanting to interview Angelica Standish as a suspect . |
| 19 | Some form of " co-habitation " with the FIS was said to have been under consideration — possibly with the FIS as a coalition partner in a government in which key ministries would remain in FLN hands , with Chadli serving out his term as President ( due to end in December 1993 ) . |
| 20 | At the Smolyan mines , 67 men were said to have been on hunger strike below ground since Aug. 13 [ see p. 39014 for labour unrest ] . |
| 21 | At the same time as the area covered by the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher has been enlarged , the usefulness of the rule has been reduced by the unwillingness of the courts to apply it in circumstances where the defendant could not be said to have been at fault . |
| 22 | These were all advantages accruing to the defendants which can fairly be said to have been in consideration of their undertaking to pay the additional £10,300 . |
| 23 | Gunpowder is said to have been in use in certain Continental mines early in the 17th Century . |
| 24 | The heads interviewed had been in post from four terms to nearly 20 years . |
| 25 | Dublin could n't miss , but United had been off target in their opening four matches . |
| 26 | most of the things that I 've done have been on Atlantic salmon and you put in Atlantic salmon and you get seven thousand eight hundred |
| 27 | This is a matter of personal conscience and what every member in the council chamber today must be aware of , is that there is a vociferous and committed group of people we know that because we 've all had a great deal of communication from them and interestingly enough I have and most of the communication I 've had has been in favour so victory , people who write must be extremely perceptive in , with er marketing the that 's not the point , we all know that there is a committed and vociferous group of people whose consciences do not lead them to the same conclusions as Mr 's conscience and the issue really is , do we in a liberal and democratic society have the right to impose our consciences on those of other people who live in the community and quite clearly and quite determinedly take a different view . |
| 28 | ‘ The biggest gang we 've got has been at war with its rival for eleven years , ’ Hart explained . |
| 29 | With its trial balloon grounded again , the next attempt to patch it up came from Vincent Cannistraro , who claimed to have been in charge of the CIA 's contribution to the Flight 103 investigation until his retirement in September 1990 . |
| 30 | The court rejected the " uncommercial " suggestion that the reference , to achieve those results , would have had to have been to arbitration , and held that it was irrelevant whether the architect issued his certificate mistakenly , because both parties had taken the risk he might do that . |