Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixty-two years later Charles Black , Adam 's grandson and current chairman , has been sent the same manuscript ( which incidentally has survived a direct hit by a flying bomb in the Second World War ) by a descendant of the colonel who has taken up the search for a publisher . |
| 2 | The good news is that Emma has been given the all clear and regular check up appointments at St.Bart 's and Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford will make sure she gets the right care from the experts . |
| 3 | GRAEME HICK has been given the all clear for Thursday 's second Test against Australia at Lord 's despite cracking a toe . |
| 4 | GRAEME HICK has been given the all clear for Thursday 's second Test against Australia at Lord 's despite cracking a toe . |
| 5 | McDermott has been given the all clear after missing last week 's game at Portsmouth because of an eye injury and Childs out for a month faces a late check on an injured groin . |
| 6 | The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown . |
| 7 | There is a dining room ( with a beautiful Italian monks ' table dating from the early 18th century which interestingly has been lowered a few inches — the monks ate standing up ) , three bedrooms individually decorated , a comfortable study-cum-television room with a log-burning stove — and for bookworms , over 3,000 books . |
| 8 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 9 | Exiled Nigerian poet Olu Oguibe has been awarded the All Africa Okigbo Prize for Literature for his collection A Gathering Fear ( Kraft Books ) . |
| 10 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 11 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 12 | I , I would like to think they 'd been supported the same as the boxing club , but after all the boxing club is for youths , and I think they 've got to look after the youths erm , try and find something for them to do , as much as erm , community |
| 13 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
| 14 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 15 | It would almost certainly have been given the same support by the full House had it not been attached to a Bill to reform obscenity law , with which it had no clear or logical connection . |
| 16 | Over ninety states have accepted the obligation not to acquire nuclear arms under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty ; although this treaty has not prevented the detonation of a nuclear device by India and the covert acquisition of nuclear capacity also by Israel and South Africa , the total list of nuclear powers is relatively small , and perhaps less than may have been predicted a few years ago . |
| 17 | At first the glare from Lucifer — extending beyond Moloch 's ice-locked horizon , and reflecting from Belial high above — turned the depths of space into a flat black backdrop that could just as well have been suspended a few feet in front of her eyes . |
| 18 | The last time he had prayed he appeared to have been granted a few more minutes before termination . |
| 19 | A decade or so previously , Nizan had been taught the same bitter lesson . |
| 20 | The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm . |
| 21 | The hay had been cut a few days before and dried in the sun and Frederick made light work of heaving it up to Albert on the cart . |
| 22 | When , each morning of that first anxious week , Colonel de Barescut attended the sickbed at Souilly to report on the events of the previous night , he had been asked the same question : ‘ What 's new on the Left Bank ? ’ |
| 23 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 24 | London had been given no such attention , but The London Society since 1912 had been undertaking work which was brought together in essays edited by Sir Aston Webb ( 1921 ) . |
| 25 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 26 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 27 | When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn . |
| 28 | The tin bath was half-filled with hot water into which had been poured the same perfumed green oil that Smallfry always added to her bath . |
| 29 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
| 30 | A similar scenario had been enacted a little more than 100 years previously at St Paul 's Cathedral , London , concerning the corpse of John Colet , Dean of St Paul 's , who died in 1519 . |