Example sentences of "have [adv] be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have since been offered a write-up in one of the car hi-fi magazines about the work on my car and others we have worked on . |
| 2 | They have all been voted the most boring people in America , according to a poll in Mademoiselle magazine . |
| 3 | The fact that one in five of the complaints were held to be breaches of the code shows that the tobacco companies have perhaps been treating the committee and the issue in a cavalier way . |
| 4 | ‘ But , ’ she had said suddenly , ‘ I have only been ordering a dozen geranium plants . ’ |
| 5 | Now what I would like Mr Alistaire and the rest of the Scottish M P's is to bring up in parliament a Scotland will have to be revalued every five years as done in the past where England have only been revalued every seventeen years , which I think is most unfair . |
| 6 | A family who 've been on a council waiting list for four years have finally been offered a house which has been wrecked by vandals . |
| 7 | ‘ You have already been given a full briefing on the facts , ’ said the President . |
| 8 | But if he accepts integrity and knows that some victims of emotional injury have already been given a right to compensation , he will have a reason for deciding in favour of Mrs. McLoughlin nevertheless . |
| 9 | In the midst of the proceedings , when they have already been given the Ten Commandments and much besides , and Moses is on the summit of Sinai receiving more torah to relay to them , they rebel . |
| 10 | We have already been using a few special words , and as we shall be using several more , let's define the meaning of some words and phrases connected with pruning . |
| 11 | But I mean , my dad always invites his staff to have a drink at the end of the evening and I mean , most of them have already been bought a drink during the course of the evening , anyway , so they 're entitled to it . |
| 12 | ‘ This year we have already been told the reason we have had three surges higher than anticipated was because of the bath-tub effect from closing the Thames barrier , ’ she said . |
| 13 | If you have already been offered a job and have agreed on a job description with your future service manager , then you may like to analyse it in the same way . |
| 14 | Where the Cleveland guidelines have not been followed the courts have refused to rely on statements made by children during the course of interviews ( Re E ( a Minor ) ( Child Abuse : Evidence ) [ 1990 ] 1 FLR 420 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Miss Kenton , I have not been using a dust-pan . ’ |
| 16 | In 1912 Eleanor Barton , a spokeswoman for the WCG ( albeit herself middle class ) , voiced the opinion that ‘ women suffer a great deal through their husbands ’ sensuality , and that is more evident amongst working people than other classes , simply because the conditions of life lend themselves to that sort of thing , and they have not been taught the proper uses of their bodies ' . |
| 17 | A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining . |
| 18 | ‘ We are walking out because we feel we have not been given a hearing , ’ Inkatha negotiator Joe Matthews said as he left the talks . |
| 19 | The Greater Peterborough TEC says : ’ Within the Youth Training programme we have about 150 young people actively seeking a place for training who at the moment have not been given an offer the fundamental problem is that the unit cost on which the funds are allocated being for this programme are too low we would hope that more money will be available to meet the guarantee because again , it is not a genuine guarantee , it is a demand-led guarantee and if we are funded on the basis of historical take-up this is bound to change when the economic climate changes , as has been experienced recently . |
| 20 | The majority of these children have not been given the tools to function as black people . |
| 21 | It is difficult to question the Minister when we have not been given the figures . |
| 22 | Over the past 20 years , there has been a growth in the number of these schools , because many parents have felt that governments have not been providing the quality of education once found in grammar schools , and are willing to forgo expensive holidays and luxuries , in order to provide the education they want for their children . |
| 23 | Even when they have not been beating a religious drum , Western historians have been censured for their myopia in treating modern science as if it were an exclusively Western phenomenon . |
| 24 | The problem is compounded by the fact that we have not been told the prices realised by the sale of the NBC 's subsidiary companies . |
| 25 | The British people have not been told the truth about that . |
| 26 | Readers who have not been following the series are advised to read Part 6 ( April , 1992 ) issue ) . |
| 27 | Those who have not been following the series are advised to read Part 1 ( November , 1991 issue ) since this gives certain background information about the National Curriculum and about this month 's topic which is information-transmission systems . |
| 28 | ‘ I am sad we have not been afforded the same welcome given to the Beirut hostages , ’ he told a deeply moved audience at the AGM last month . |
| 29 | Have just been reading the book of Joel . |
| 30 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |