Example sentences of "[verb] have [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extent to which such an understanding is justified has been a matter of some debate , not only at the local level , but in terms of national politics , and even politics within the EC . |
| 2 | The only luxuries she has had are a holiday in America , a new car and a few home improvements . |
| 3 | Curtis was staring at the bloodstained shirt , ‘ I suppose it has to have been a firearm , sir ? ’ |
| 4 | What one needs and has to have is a reaction . |
| 5 | This was considered to have been a miracle , and the statue of Our Lady of Monte now stands in the centre of the high altar of the church in Monte . |
| 6 | The exercise was reported to have been a success , with 12,000,000 people registering , and voting for party officials and delegates in more than 5,000 local ward elections took place on May 26 , using an open ballot system . |
| 7 | Subsequently he is reported to have been a pupil of his cousin George Wilfred Anthony , a drawing master in Manchester , later a landscape painter and art critic ( as ‘ Gabriel Tinto ’ ) for the Manchester Guardian . |
| 8 | In other words , X was deemed to have been a buyer ‘ in possession ’ and deemed to have delivered the car to the innocent purchaser . |
| 9 | All we are left with are a few opening chapters ( published as Coots in the North , edited by Hugh Brogan ) , and notes towards an encounter between two sets of pirates , the Death and Glories and the Amazons , which promised to have been a battle royal . |
| 10 | Nearly one in three credit buyers said that the type of credit they used had been a standing arrangement , and so something they used virtually automatically . |
| 11 | Among the issues that we have addressed have been a number of particular concern to small firms . |
| 12 | I hope these problems wo n't discourage your company from continuing to run the service , which I hope has been a success this year . |
| 13 | What she 'd had was a double-booking , effectively , cos she 'd had this dinner which was meant to be in the private dining hall , but the numbers had suddenly shot up , and because they 'd said originally they wanted either the private dining hall or the main dining hall depending on numbers , she should have really booked them both and decided later and told me to like try somewhere else , but she did n't , she told me yeah the dining hall 's free . |
| 14 | In this respect the article would appear to have been a success . |
| 15 | The development would appear to have been a success and for the winter timetable an early morning Aberystwyth to Birmingham train will run daily . |
| 16 | Lack of academic training does not appear to have been a handicap for Roddick . |
| 17 | I am sorry to say this , but there would appear to have been a number of houses in recent times , some of the highest pedigree , which have tended to take a competitive attitude towards each other and have not been above ‘ showing off ’ to guests a butler 's mastery of such trivial accomplishments . |
| 18 | He said there did not appear to have been a break-in . |
| 19 | It seemed to have been a place of school and tennis , of clubs and tennis . |
| 20 | On Radio Warsaw in December 1952 WIN was revealed to have been a puppet of the KGB since it was revived in 1948 . |
| 21 | The environment is said to have been a lagoon , and the ‘ shrimp band ’ is thought to represent an episode of sudden flooding by the sea . |
| 22 | The main London to Exeter ‘ road ’ was said to have been a quarter of a mile wide by the end of the winter where it crossed — or rather plunged through — the sticky morass of the chalk on Salisbury Plain . |
| 23 | Moore is said to have been a pioneer in producing a periodical for seamen , the Mariners ' Journal , which was published briefly between 185I and 1854 , and to have advocated the first system of paid shore based officials to look after the interests of their members while they were at sea . |
| 24 | The great reason for the Church of England 's perishing , if it does , will be seen to have been a lack of such a vision . |
| 25 | The massive trend , from 1965 to 1980 , towards diversification is now largely seen to have been a mistake . |
| 26 | The publicity he 's had has been a lot more extensive over the years erm so I think he 's certainly more of a household name than myself . |
| 27 | How many women can claim to have been a Tiller Girl ? |
| 28 | I should like to have been a parent , a real English Socialist , a stunning diver on the side , and a foppish dresser . |
| 29 | ‘ I would like to have been a cave-woman , to see how we started . |
| 30 | Mr Greene claimed that in Britain campaigns aimed at the population as a whole had been shown to have been a waste of money and there had been a change of policy to target the high-risk groups such as homosexuals and intravenous drug users . |