Example sentences of "have [art] [adj] [noun] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In no case has the legal principle been sacrificed to a thoughtful new policy on criminal justice . |
| 2 | Never has the Norman hole been so necessarily , or slowly , bored as on that evening when the trou Normand of Calvados between courses did its work . |
| 3 | Has the Russian spring been done to death in literature ? |
| 4 | What has the overall result been ? |
| 5 | Has the young lady been up before ? ’ |
| 6 | Why then has the atomistic image been so powerful ? |
| 7 | Why has the United Nations been so slow to act effectively to stop the Serb-led aggression reminiscent of the worst of communist thuggery ? |
| 8 | However , its contents have not yet been revealed in any detail , neither has the valuable Abridgement been considered . |
| 9 | Did you break in here , too , or has the back door been unlocked the whole time ? ’ |
| 10 | It will be the ninth occasion that Twickenham has represented the last hurdle in Scotland 's attempt to capture the Triple Crown and only once — Wilson Shaw 's match in 1938 — has the elusive prize been garnered . |
| 11 | If there is no split , why has the White Paper been delayed ? |
| 12 | Why , then , has the basic plan been preserved when habits and ways of life have altered ? |
| 13 | ‘ Since when has the Miletti family been run as a cooperative ? ’ |
| 14 | " What makes the history of England so eminently valuable , " wrote T. H. Buckle , " is that nowhere else has the national progress been so little interfered with , either for good or evil . " |
| 15 | ‘ Since when has a metaphorical gym-slip been a deterrent when a beautiful adolescent sets her sights on a young and virile man ? ’ |
| 16 | But seldom has a military miscalculation been so gross and retribution so immediate . |
| 17 | Has a proper analysis been made of its implications for the fishing industry in the Irish sea ? |
| 18 | However in only one case has a functional element been defined to a very small region . |
| 19 | Their approach was in great contrast to what might have been the position had the official Opposition been in government . |
| 20 | No sooner had the late ploughing been completed than he began accepting contracts for harrowing . |
| 21 | The target was ambitious , but by no means impossible had the fund-raising campaign been properly organized . |
| 22 | Nor , as Philip Swallow had predicted , had the general public been greatly inconvenienced . |
| 23 | Had the young people been law-breakers of the son which writer and reader would seldom encounter socially , no such justification would have been necessary . |
| 24 | It is worth noting that current UK totals of public expenditure would have been still higher had the pre-1977 definition been retained . |
| 25 | In fact , had the recognised procedure been followed , there might have been some slight additional delay . |
| 26 | The contrast between this inactivity and the action which would have been taken had the injured individual been a young child , was a stark one . |
| 27 | His name was on the list of H. H. Asquith ( later first Earl of Oxford and Asquith ) , had the prime minister been forced to create new Liberal peers in 1911 . |
| 28 | Indeed , had the populist programme been realized , the effect would not have been direct transition to socialism at all , but the more rapid development of capitalism . |
| 29 | How had the new figure been calculated ? |
| 30 | What had the good physician been doing at the Tower ? |