Example sentences of "[vb -s] have [be] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | But this follows a year of debate about strategy during which some senior ICI board members appeared unhappy about the way Sir Denys has been running the firm . |
2 | Mr McNeill said he has had been reading the Belfast Telegraph for years and enjoys doing the crossword first , perusing the television viewing and then gets around to reading the news . |
3 | It does sound to me was there has to have been given a reason as to why the claim was rejected . |
4 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
5 | The sword appears to have been to defend the Holy Church , the sceptre to signify royal power and the rod to symbolize virtue and equity . |
6 | The top chasers have a habit of being able to give weight and a beating to their more humble rivals and although Barnbrook Again appears to have been given a stiff task in conceding 8lb to Rusch de Farges , his two runs already this season should give him the advantage . |
7 | He shaped well when fourth behind Tipping Tim at Cheltenham and appears to have been given an ideal build-up . |
8 | At the same time he was busy courting his supporters amongst the Country Tories by playing on the theme of the " Church in Danger " , and his strategy appears to have been to unite the various dissident Tories behind him in order to oust Oxford from power , and then try to ensure that Tory political dominance was so unchallengeable that when George I became King he would be forced to work with them . |
9 | Also in the last months before the war Lloyd George appears to have been contemplating a more direct assault upon the Poor Law which had been almost unchanged by the Reports of the Royal Commission in February 1909 . |
10 | Mr Kinnock appears to have been preparing the ground for a possible arrangement with the Liberal Democrats by stressing his party 's commitment to proportional representation in a Scottish assembly , and to involve other parties in a review of alternative voting systems for the House of Commons . |
11 | The result is in line with Roberts , and is consistent with the decision if not the reasoning in Spratt , where the court seems to have been discussing the nature of recklessness , not whether there had to be mens rea as to the occasioning of actual bodily harm . |
12 | The overall intention of the Minoan priestesses seems to have been to house the whole pantheon in the Labyrinth , luring deities from their various shrines and sanctuaries in outlying areas . |
13 | The idea of palaeokarst landforms seems to have been attracting the attention of European geomorphologists in recent years and possible examples of various ages have been described from different places , e.g. Belgium and Poland ( Sparks , |
14 | Rule 3(7) is re-enacted in the Supreme Court Act 1981 s. 31(3) , and the main effect of the rule seems to have been to equip the court with a flexible and unpredictable tool for controlling access to judicial review . |
15 | Here guests were greeted by the Chairman of the British Branch of the organisation Mr Tim Hart and Mrs Hart ; they are the proprietors of the superb Hambleton Hall on Rutland Water ; Mr and Mrs Martin Skan , owners of the Chewton Glen Hotel , in Hampshire ; and a director and the general manager of Claridge 's Mr Ronald Jones , who was delighted that Claridge 's had been elected a new member with the top award of a purple shield , denoting the splendour of a palace , with exceptional service . |
16 | Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic … |