Example sentences of "have be [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is capitalist , and everybody will , would 've been given their own land . |
| 2 | I do n't know why , but David has been to see it several times he thought it was really good . |
| 3 | Another new boy , Nick Raynsford , has been given his own single room — an extremely prized possession , even among long-serving MPs — on the shadow cabinet corridor . |
| 4 | ( GUIL meanwhile has been resuming his own theme — looking out over the audience ) Free to move , speak , extemporise , and yet . |
| 5 | ‘ In most cases , their only crime has been to defend their own territories and natural resources , ’ said Genaro Bautista . |
| 6 | Despite the problems mentioned above , credit should be given to BRAC for realising its errors and ( hopefully ) rectifying them : BRAC has been monitoring its own programme from the start , and this shows a healthy degree of self-evaluation . |
| 7 | PARLIAMENT has been reminding me this past week of some scenes from the musical Paint Your Wagon . |
| 8 | Check out day centres in your area : Canterbury 's Prince of Wales Youth Trust Day Centre has been organising its own Open Christmas scheme for the last two years . |
| 9 | Yet we have already found in Chapter 2 that the UK has , relatively speaking , been suffering from declining international competitiveness as a place in which goods are actually made , though it has been holding its own in providing financial services on a world scale , and is prosperous enough , for example , to have a demand for hypermarkets on the international model . |
| 10 | Amperif , a long-time player in the Unisys Corp storage subsystems business — it has not always enjoyed an easy relationship with Unisys — has been developing its own disk array product under the code-name Viking . |
| 11 | And while it is BPX-GOM 's first third-party agreement to remotely operate and produce from a subsea gas well , the Offshore Division has been operating its own satellite gas well , High Island A-587 , since 1991 . |
| 12 | ‘ Woolacombe has been expecting him this age , and not a word from the man to anyone ! ’ |
| 13 | As a visual aid to quick and easy identification , each section in the prospectus has been assigned its own colour code . |
| 14 | Shortly after the abolition of the CPRS , Professor George Jones noted : ‘ While she has been strengthening her own personal staff resources , she has weakened those at the disposal of her Cabinet colleagues for the performances of their collective deliberations by abolishing the CPRS . |
| 15 | However , it would seem that Greg Martin , your mother 's companion when the yacht was lost , has been fooling us these past twenty years . |
| 16 | In the mean time Dr Santiago Sequeira , the hospital 's director , has been fighting his own revolution , battling against incredible odds to humanize the physical environment of the hospital and improve the general quality of patient care . |
| 17 | SCO , whose revenues are thought to be double USL 's and whose board reportedly wants to cash out , makes no secret of the fact that it has been contemplating its own initial public offering ( IPO ) for some time . |
| 18 | It is one of the reasons he has been delaying us these three days , I think , ’ Guillamon put in . |
| 19 | ‘ And that 's why that damned woman has been giving me such strange knowing looks ! |
| 20 | And says if he 'd been given his own psychiatric nurse … he would never have jumped off the train . |
| 21 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |
| 22 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 23 | They 'd been planning their own form of ’ entertainment ’ using dangerous weapons like these . |
| 24 | He 'd been doing it all evening . |
| 25 | You 'd think she 'd been doing it all her life . |
| 26 | What had gone awry , that he should have been led to this pass , and even now he felt himself following , perforce , the twists of his fortune , headlong as a fall , when he should have been steering his own course and bearing them strongly with him ? |
| 27 | She could n't have been asleep when I lifted the ledger from her lap and scanned its pages : she must have been watching me all the time . |
| 28 | And yet , they say , Earth 's temperature has remained stable , implying that life has been regulating the composition of gases , and the biota must have been controlling its own environment . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , he could have been defending his own , ’ Theodora said . |
| 30 | A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac . |