Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 2 | Christopher Laing , Immediate Past President of the CIOB , has been elected as Chairman of the National Playing Fields Association [ NPFA ] , the charity of recreational space . |
| 3 | Standish examines the first two difficulties ; the third is not surprising given Neptune 's long orbital period , 165 years ( so that not even one orbit has been completed since it was discovered ) . |
| 4 | Good evening , first tonight demolition work on a Cotswold hotel has been halted after fighting broke out between building workers and demonstrators . |
| 5 | FILMING of a new multi-million pound TV war epic has been halted because the leading man , actor Paul McGann , has been hurt — playing football . |
| 6 | The UK Department of Transport 's plans to build a road through rare water meadows in Herefordshire have been rejected on environmental grounds after a public inquiry — reportedly the first time that a road project has been halted because of environmental concern . |
| 7 | The political task of leading this debate has been fudged because essentially it is so unpopular , but rationing , whether covert or overt , formal or informal , will continue to be a key issue for the future . |
| 8 | Such a relation has been explained as the result of increased androgenicity . |
| 9 | Though the problem of radiation embrittlement has been recognised since the outset of the civil Magnox programme in the early 1960s , the inspectorate called for more evidence of the safety of Magnox plants in 1990 after it found the rate of embrittlement may have been faster than predicted . |
| 10 | Nigeria 's soil erosion problem has been recognised as extremely serious but conservation has only become a national concern during the Third National Plan ( 1975–80 ) . |
| 11 | A special area has been built where 8 counselling services come together under one organisation . |
| 12 | The mayor asks them to tell him what has been written because there are several which he can not read . |
| 13 | There 's , there 's , th the the aim is the same , the aim is not to not to gain weight er and the control has been lost when th when it 's necessary to binge . |
| 14 | Many a temporary gain has been lost because the significance of the development was recognised too late in the day and additional resources could not be made available . |
| 15 | A new culture is also developing in the controlled zones which tries to incorporate traditional campesina culture into the themes of the liberation struggle , popular theatre and music groups reinterpret the theatre-dance , the sones and boleros still found in the rural areas of El Salvador , These date back to the Spanish colonial period but much has been lost because of the impact of commercialized Western culture . |
| 16 | The one Non-Conformist chapel referred to in the article has been saved because it subsequently became a parish church and thus qualified for the fund . |
| 17 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
| 18 | The reward for doing so has been stated as revealing a view of the towers of York Minster , a claim difficult to believe without visual evidence . |
| 19 | At this stage , then , the general position has been stated as to how research workers should approach their task . |
| 20 | One has been bailed whilst tests into the drugs are carried out . |
| 21 | In some cases doctors will not only have to consider the capacity of the patient to refuse treatment , but also whether the refusal has been vitiated because it resulted not from the patient 's will , but from the will of others . |
| 22 | In particular , Almond questions the notion of autonomy as it has been developed since Kant , arguing that this notion is of limited value to women , since ‘ the ‘ masculine ’ goal of moral autonomy has in practice almost always been outside a woman 's grasp' . |
| 23 | Over the last few years the number of public television groups within the PBAA has grown steadily , and extensive technical expertise has been developed as more than twenty test broadcasts across Australia have taken place . |
| 24 | She said Mr Mandela told them that he had written a document setting out his views on negotiations , the prospect of which President de Klerk has been promoting since well before the National Party returned to power in the 6 September elections . |
| 25 | I was delighted with the fact that the southwest of Scotland has been highlighted as I think that it is one of the most underrated parts of Scotland where golf is concerned . |
| 26 | However , his analysis has been criticized as ‘ abominably sexist not to mention atavistic ’ ( Reed , 1988 ) . |
| 27 | The crisis of resources in public education has also brought to a head questions about the relevance of the present curriculum , which has been criticized as too academic and élitist , and the rigidity of the education system generally . |
| 28 | Few would deny that there are elements of truth in this explanation , but it has been criticized as incomplete because of its bias towards élites and its failure to explain why nationalist symbols had such wide appeal . |
| 29 | Hitherto the instrumental approach to law has been criticized as inadequate to provide a coherent explanation for contradictory tendencies in legal developments . |
| 30 | The barrage plan has been criticized as endangering wildlife habitats and leading to a raised water table within the city , which could damage buildings . |