Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the Conservative government , they dithered and have been overtaken by a recession which reduced their chance of success . |
| 2 | It was not , however , until the Lough Ine investigations ( summarised by Kitching & Ebling , 1967 ) that any serious experimental data were available to suggest an explanation as to the mechanism by which the pattern arose and has been maintained . |
| 3 | It may be argued that they existed but had been forgotten . |
| 4 | While statements such as this invited the charge that factual evidence was becoming confounded with too-hasty interpretation , the basic thesis survived and has been strengthened by other workers not of the psychoanalytic school : notably the ethologists and zoologists , as well as child psychologists ( Lorenz , 1952 ; Harlow , 1961 ; Schaffer and Emerson , 1964 ) . |
| 5 | In our opinion , the quality of service measurements of the first and second class letter service for 1990/1991 have been correctly calculated and presented and have been derived from information obtained in accordance with the stated methodology and sampling programme . |
| 6 | She had called in at the office once since she left and had been greeted with pleasure . |
| 7 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 8 | She was rather young when she married and had been brought up as a lady , so it was another world for her . |
| 9 | But somehow , of all the facts and figures that had and have been adduced to bolster the arguments in favour of the dawning of a new Pacific age , this one seemed the most appropriate . |
| 10 | Before the Brownings left Florence she had enquired of Mr Browning how things stood and had been told very ill , but that this must be kept from his wife until she was in the warm south and better able to stand the inevitable end of it all . |