Example sentences of "[conj] have [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are usually quite a mixed group , some of whom have had bad experiences at school or have been long term truants . |
| 2 | Since the Williams Report , the only books which have been prosecuted have either glorified illegal activities , such as the taking of dangerous drugs , or have been hard-core pornography lacking any literary pretension or sociological interest . |
| 3 | Vadinamia has its own ultra-tight security that has been frustrating spies for a long time . |
| 4 | A COLLECTION of unusual antiques that has been 30 years in the making will go under the hammer this weekend . |
| 5 | As a result of the ‘ literate mentality ’ that these institutions helped to form in England , and to which Lyons and fellow academics now subscribe , later historians , looking back to records of eleventh century England , tended to discard medallions , seals and other material objects that had been major criteria of validation in the oral culture of that period . |
| 6 | Have n't talked since that marvellous Bassanio you did at the Vic ’ — that had been fifteen years before — ‘ lovely performance . ’ |
| 7 | For example , the addition of magnesium fertilizers in Norway and Germany 's Black Forest has resulted in recovery in young spruce trees that had been suffering chlorosis ( Printz , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | Silence fell as Creggan and the other eagles that had been listening thought about what Minch had told them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All that had been two months ago . |
| 11 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 12 | The high-ups at Drury Lane are anxious to send whole companies — actresses as well as actors — in plays that have been popular London successes . ’ |
| 13 | I think if anything can stop some of the things happening to youngsters that have been this year then it is a good thing . |
| 14 | It may be able to detect the entire NCSA virus library , but it 's still oblivious to some viruses that have been common knowledge for many months . |
| 15 | If it feels like cotton , wears like polyester and holds color like cotton , it must be — Tencel , the new Courtaulds fibre that 's been 10 years and $200 million in the making … |
| 16 | joined the Group with the acquisition of of Trowbridge in May 1978 and has been regional buyer for the north west region since March 1985 . |
| 17 | Curt Fredrikson founded the Swedish Debt Surveillance operation , and has been Managing Director of the Swedish wing of Justitia since 1985 . |
| 18 | As the right hon. Gentleman was Chancellor before it started and has been Prime Minister throughout its course , is it not clear that he is not only the Prime Minister of recession , but the prime cause of recession ? |
| 19 | As a director of public health , and having been chief officer to a health authority for some 17 years and having experienced more reorganisations than I care to remember , I can see the career turbulence that the current reforms are producing for some senior doctors in public health medicine . |
| 20 | He had led the party since 1984 , succeeding Dom Mintoff [ see p. 33794 ] , and had been Prime Minister from then until the party 's defeat in 1987 . |
| 21 | Allegations had been first made against Papandreou and three other politicians in connection with their dealings with the bank in late 1988 [ see p. 36562 ] and had been one factor in the electoral victory of the New Democracy party in April 1990 . |
| 22 | Beattie was a senior foreman and had been twenty years with his company . |
| 23 | Nowhere do you mention the several hundred thousand Arabs ( Muslims , Christians ) who carry Israeli passports and have been second-class citizens for the past 45 years . |
| 24 | Captain Sturt was the great explorer who had discovered the Murray River , and have been some years in New South Wales before coming to Adelaide , where he was Colonial Secretary . |
| 25 | In a similar way , as we shall find later , although the widowed and still married give similar pictures of the practical division of roles in their married lives , the widowed tend to interpret these apparently similar marriages differently , remembering themselves as having been closer couples than do those who are still married . |
| 26 | This is another welcome return as having been available running under SuperCalc 5 there has been a period in which this was no longer available . |
| 27 | The leading judgment , expressing the majority view , was given by Lamont J. The maxim , which I have already quoted , led to the conclusion that as the child en ventre sa mère was born alive it was to be treated as having being alive while en ventre sa mère and so could claim damages for an injury at that time . |
| 28 | There were no questions or interjections from the floor of the Chamber , as is customary in the British House of Commons , and as had been common debating practice during the Second Republic . |