Example sentences of "have be lived " in BNC.

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1 For someone whose life has been lived in search of the word , who perceived that ‘ a scar is what happens when the word is made flesh , ’ who owned that his education began on hearing of the Holocaust , it is not a convincing comment .
2 People who are blind can not judge the colour of light , people who are totally deaf can not assess the wonder of a Mendelssohn sonata , and people whose whole experience of life has been lived in the darkness of materialism can not fully appreciate the holiness and perfection of God who dwells in light unapproachable .
3 Deene was acquired by Sir Robert Brudenell in 1514 and has been lived in ever since by his descendants including the 7th Earl of Cardigan who led the Charge of the Light Brigade .
4 If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours .
5 With her first fiction , then , Iris Murdoch joined the ranks of theorists who are part sceptical of theory ; and though her writings never lose the marks of a philosophical training , they suggest a training that has been lived and effectively outlived , a sense of theory turned questioning and whimsical .
6 For twenty years my life has been lived within the Left , and the companionship and creativity of many of the people I have met have changed me .
7 The tower was converted to a house around the turn of the century and has been lived in ever since apart from a couple of years when architects used it as offices .
8 They seemed to have been lived by a different person .
9 It all becomes uncomfortably apparent and that which had been lived and accepted is opened up in a revelatory manner , so that the vice of being caught up within the hegemonies of such a system designed to control a powerless underclass can become overbearing .
10 On a hundred occasions I have idled similarly in a deserted croft in the Highlands of Scotland and wondered about the lives that had been lived in it .
11 Victoria 's whole life had been lived within the aura of the Royal Family , and she reacted by instinct to nurture that relationship .
12 But her deep tanned face had been lived in for a fistful of decades .
13 This house had been lived in by Lord Byron at one time .
14 He could feel a sense of power and satisfaction , as though his whole life had been lived for this .
15 It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week .
16 Her own childhood had been lived on the margins : she had wanted theirs to be calm , to be spared the indignities of fighting unnecessary territorial and social wars .
17 It is fruitful to recognise the responsibility people have for their own lives , and the material circumstances in which those lives have been lived , in considering the resources with which a person enters the last stages of life .
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