Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Approval is given for something that has been done so the management arrow is somewhat behind the broken arrow . |
| 2 | Er this has been altered quite a lot since then , but you can still see the er gate that was er to the yard of the station . |
| 3 | Once the management task has been defined then the type of information required can be identified . |
| 4 | The marsh has been drained so the water forms a lake with small islands for birds and wildlife . |
| 5 | An explicit leaflet and poster for students sloganned ‘ take a course in safe sex ’ has been causing quite a furore . |
| 6 | Our approach to interest rate risk has been to manage actively the balance between floating-rate and fixed-rate debt . |
| 7 | If a terminal node has been reached then a new non-terminal branch is created , labelled with the first unmatched symbol . |
| 8 | If an announcement has been prepared then the response to a leak should be more effective than in the event of having to deal with the situation at short notice . |
| 9 | His chief backer is Roy Hattersley , whom he has been seeing quite a bit lately . |
| 10 | But the net effect has been to leave exactly the same number dependent upon means-tested assistance . |
| 11 | Shimon Samuels , meanwhile , has been lobbying both the German and French governments , questioning their lack of endeavour in hunting down suspects . |
| 12 | My cataract operation has been moved forward a fortnight for the rather odd reason that the hospital is ‘ having to cancel all non-urgent operations in October ’ . |
| 13 | A Liverpool City Council spokesman said : ‘ He has been granted both a disabled facilities grant and mandatory renovation grant . ’ |
| 14 | The effect of Japanese competition in some industries in the past has been to reduce drastically the size of those industries and in some cases ( eg motor cycles ) virtually eliminate the industries altogether . |
| 15 | Rock'n'roll has become so totally predictable and everybody has been doing exactly the same thing now for , like , 25 years . |
| 16 | Lately George has been doing quite a lot of libel , where there is also a jury to persuade and headlines to be had . |
| 17 | As a result , one of the central policy priorities of government has been to strengthen significantly the academic infrastructure so that research and postgraduate training activities are adequate to meet the future needs of industry , especially in what have been termed ‘ exploitable areas of science ’ . |
| 18 | The death grant has been finished quite a long time ago , but there was the death grant erm because I can remember you know this , people telling me about this . |
| 19 | Since about 1988 , Rob Gallagher ( aka Galliano ) has been putting together the cross-cultural , many-sided musical jigsaw that shares his nickname . |
| 20 | So now he is my enemy , I have touched his pride , and he has been waiting only the moment to humiliate me … ’ |
| 21 | She has been offered only the statutory minimum of £4,715 in redundancy pay . |
| 22 | If you think that Toronto vertical market turnkey systems integrator Geac Computer Corp has been making rather a lot of acquisitions of late , well you ai n't seen nothing yet . |
| 23 | The event has been brought forward a year from 1991 and moved also from France to West Germany . |
| 24 | THE tremendous response to news of the video ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ means the release date has been brought forward a week to October 12 . |
| 25 | Already next season 's Ulster Senior Challenge Cup final has been brought forward a week to April 23 in order to accommodate the Lions party who will take in the game as part of their celebrations . |
| 26 | As the April meeting would coincide with election day it has been brought forward a week to April 2 when Richard Wood of Durham Wildlife Trust will be the speaker . |
| 27 | But the forest has been spared perhaps the ultimate in toxic waste . |
| 28 | The man escaped from Coney Hill mental hospital in Gloucester , where he 'd been sent exactly a year ago after being convicted of the assault of a three year old girl in the city . |
| 29 | It was hard to believe that this generously smiling woman was the same predatory creature she 'd been watching just a moment ago — but the image she had seen was seared in her brain , and suddenly she knew there was no way in the world that she could allow this woman to be a mother to Kirsty . |
| 30 | and er they used to come to me and say how much does this man owe now and if he 'd been paying quite a bit next time he came in the shop they was all round him trying to persuade him to buy |