Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | We move on next day over hard packed snow that has been wind-blown into flutes and columns . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For Said , the problem amounts simply to historicism and , the universalising and self-validating that has been endemic to it' : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This is a very lethal condition and has been responsible for a great many accidents and much loss of life . |
| 14 | English Nature has been opposed to peat extraction but has been powerless to prevent it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In general , the sale was characterised by more trade bidding than has been evident over the past year , while competitive bidding between private collectors was responsible for the morning 's most surprising result : £21,000 ( $31,500 ; est. £6,000–8,000 ) for Joe Tilson 's ‘ Ziggurat 1967 ’ ( lot 79 ) |
| 17 | Elsewhere he referred to it as ‘ developing socialism ’ , differentiating it from the ‘ developed socialism ’ that was supposed to have been constructed in the Brezhnev era and still more so from the utopian vision of a society rapidly advancing towards full communism that had been current in the Khrushchev years . |
| 18 | On that second and final dinner of the conference — most guests were expected to disperse after lunch the following day — the company had lost much of the reserve that had been noticeable throughout the previous days . |
| 19 | The shock caused by Balfour 's going thus did something to steady the party and it certainly produced a real determination to settle the affairs of the party with less friction than had been fashionable of late . |
| 20 | It was woven to represent a field that had been horse-ploughed in the old narrow stetches . |
| 21 | Prescriptives , an American range that has been available here for 10 years , offers a unique collection of very wearable , natural colours . |
| 22 | Despite all of these changes , the leaders of the change effort consciously supported and maintained those values and ways of work that had been productive in the past , such as joint consultation with the unions . |
| 23 | Gen Noriega 's provocations may simply have accelerated a plan that had been ready to be unleashed at any time . |
| 24 | In practice , however , progression has been difficult to achieve , and the rites of passage that have been such a feature of our educational organisation — at 11 plus , at the options stage at 14 , and again at 16 — have compounded the problem . |
| 25 | He enclosed the green that had been open to the villagers for years , and he bought up Hooper 's farm just to tack on his land , this land you 're living on . ’ |
| 26 | Even four successive nights seemed an almost too generous slice of happiness , and on that fourth night , with the waning moonlight glittering on the sea and the crickets noisy in the hayfield on the other side of the wall , she gazed sadly up at him and asked the question that had been uppermost in their minds for some time . |
| 27 | Generally , the products were made of plane/sycamore wood that had been seasoned for about 6 months . |
| 28 | These were committed to a balanced or cross-bench political outlook and have been uneasy with the Prime Minister 's zeal , certainty , and forcefulness . |
| 29 | He has attempted to come off on several occasions and at the time of interview was undergoing methadone withdrawal and has been heroin-free for two months . ‘ |
| 30 | He watched the cashier ring through for a clearance and had been surprised when it was accepted . |