Example sentences of "have [prep] a [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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1 | This stance was not new but has for a while been taken by Nationalism Today . |
2 | Each spurt in investment has for a time been halfway successful in boosting harvests and production , but policy to date has failed to grasp the nettles of productivity , variety , distribution and responsible land use . |
3 | Because the countryside involves working the land , and that land has in a sense been here forever , there appears to be something eternal about rural life , its rhythms and patterns , that city life can never reproduce . |
4 | Their society has in a word been bowdlerised . |
5 | In some companies this role has to a degree been formalised through the creation of audit committees made up of non-executives , their function being to review the effectiveness of the company 's auditing procedures and to liaise with the auditors . |
6 | In recent years the model 's exclusive focus on shareholder interests has to a degree been modified . |
7 | Secondly , I know that this committee has over a time been concerned about the resource needs |
8 | Christopher and I then returned to the fringes of power , having for a time been drawn perilously close to the centre . ’ |
9 | The criteria most commonly used to establish how many people we should have in a sample are such characteristics as age , gender , marital status and socio-economic status , although various other criteria may be used as appropriate . |
10 | The maximum number of children you can have in a class is twenty |
11 | ‘ The worst situation you can have on a motorway is vehicles standing still as others approach the scene of a crash . ’ |
12 | While moral suasion had been favoured in the War ( in preference to rationing ) as a means of restricting domestic demand , and had for a time been partially successful , as peace returned it lost much of its impact . |
13 | To Miss D'Arcy he was Colonel Hope ; to Mary he had for a moment been Augustus ; to his new self , John alone ; with Joanna he had no name and experienced the inscrutable animal comfort of brief blank joy . |
14 | He could neither move nor think , as if all power had at a stroke been cut off from both body and brain . |
15 | If the high expectations I have of a partner are based on past experience rather than romantic ideology , so are the expectations I have of myself . |