Example sentences of "have be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mothers have been warned that alcohol and tobacco — as well as various medicines and other chemicals — can injure a fetus . |
| 2 | Rival warlords Mohamed Farrah Aidid and Ali Mahdi Mohamed have been looting Western emergency aid supplies sent to the area . |
| 3 | The movement into private care has been accentuated by tight control of local authority expenditure at a time when numbers of people have been ‘ deinstitutionalised ’ from psychiatric and psycho-geriatric units , and when people from an ageing population have been seeking residential care for the first time . |
| 4 | Then she would at least have been able to ask if he was anything to do with Massingham Engineering — and thereby have been prepared this morning . |
| 5 | In the main , we have been exploring sensory perception and physical reality . |
| 6 | Restrictions on water use have been imposed this month in areas of the south and east of the country , which is experiencing the worst drought this century . |
| 7 | The six men and six women have been questioned all day by detectives : |
| 8 | Given the horrendous job losses that have been announced this month in the manufacturing sector , are these signs of the success of the Government 's economic policy ? |
| 9 | POSC member companies — the oil industry 's open systems user organisation — and the group 's permanent staff have been evaluating potential SIP components since last December . |
| 10 | Newcastle though have been flying all season … on top of the table since September they 've lost just one of their last ten league games … some thought they were beginning to slip … five goals against Brentford last weekend proved that Kevin Keegan 's team are still the ones to beat … |
| 11 | I don I should also say that following a very recent decision er in our submission that 's probably right , that my Lord as I say , I say to you with no joy , this really is desperate and er one can not have , in our submission , in the minds of the jury by inadmissible evidence , the suggestion that yes we have been harbouring this man two days before . |
| 12 | You will still call that colour ‘ green ’ because you too have been taught that grass is always green . |
| 13 | Some of them have been getting strong criticism lately . |
| 14 | Twenty-one red kite chicks have been raised this year , compared to just 10 last year . |
| 15 | Many of the points which have been raised this evening will be considered in Committee . |
| 16 | The Midlanders have been eating humble pie this season , though they deserve better fare . |
| 17 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 18 | Sainsbury 's have been baking french bread for many years . |
| 19 | I have been sent another example , which is rather more serious . |
| 20 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 21 | Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team … |
| 22 | Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team … |
| 23 | Lam exhibitions have been mounted this month at The Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid ( until 14 December and then travelling to the Fundació Miró in Barcelona , 21 January–28 March , 1993 ) , the Villa Medici in Rome , the home of the French Academy ( until 24 January 1993 and the first show of the artist 's work in Italy ) and in New York . |
| 24 | Could it be that some machines have been neglected all summer ? |
| 25 | Since then those lines have been undergoing separate evolution , giving rise to yet further , more recent branches . |
| 26 | The pages of magazines have been filled this year with the usual crop of controversies . |
| 27 | We have been teaching electronic publishing to undergraduate students for some ten years now , and to computer science undergraduates for six years . |
| 28 | It 's the work of Grenobloise company named Alp'Roc who , until now , have been manufacturing normal climbing wall apparatus . |
| 29 | Brintons have been manufacturing fine quality woven carpet over 200 years / . |
| 30 | The most dramatic thing about the recent dietary fibre research is that it has , to a degree , altered the basis on which experts have been calculating potential weight loss over the past half century or so … the period during which overweight people have been begging diet doctors and dieticians to help them shed that surplus fat . |