Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [pron] have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's an ambulance there , looks like there 's been a crash , a bad one as well |
| 2 | Sellafield said : ‘ We do n't know if there has been a spillage . ’ |
| 3 | Women who I had attacked for bringing up boy children wanted to know if it had been an immaculate conception or simply parthenogenesis , and what was I going to do with it if it were a boy ? |
| 4 | We do not know which , if any , funds are affected and we do not know whether there has been an over valuation or an under valuation . ’ |
| 5 | How do you know whether anything has been a success , or whether you 're doing anything right , unless you ask , and we expect this rationale to follow through into our community investment programme . |
| 6 | Er in the context of bulk transfers would you like to comment on the Good Committees conclusions on the bulk transfers of members between schemes and how they operate , and do you think that er there is widespread abuse or do you think er on balance your experience has been that where bulk transfers have taken place , they have taken place responsibly , but I would in that context ask you to comment whether there has been an unreasonable time delay where you have experienced bank bulk transfers between the transfer actually taking place in terms of employees being transferred from an undertaking to another undertaking and the actual transfer of their pension funds . |
| 7 | It seemed to adapt itself to her and , in any case , she would not have noticed if it had been a giraffe . |
| 8 | I think perhaps in the Habitat-Mothercare-BHS merger things have taken rather longer to settle down than they might have done if it had been a take-over . |
| 9 | He did not reiterate Mr Major 's claim that Nissan came to the region because of his party 's policies , but preferred to point out it would not have done if there had been a Labour Government in situ . |
| 10 | The parents face a nightmare week-long wait before blood tests show if there has been a hospital blunder . |
| 11 | He tried to remember if there had been a particular shop nearby but he failed . |
| 12 | I tried to remember if there had been a dog with him , but it was difficult to concentrate . |
| 13 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 14 | You can measure them later to see if there has been a change . |
| 15 | They are invesitigating the two transactions in question , to see if there has been a breach of trust . |
| 16 | Gloucester City Council says that it usually responds straight away to requests to repair smoke alarms in it 's properties , but an investigation has now been launched to see if there 's been a break down in communications . |
| 17 | I mean if it had been an electrician 's job and |
| 18 | The question was whether an employee who was going to suffer from a disability , and was then guilty of misconduct , would have been dismissed if he had been a man . |
| 19 | This point helps to explain why there do not appear to have been many actual dismissals for pilferage ( we assume that we would have been told if there had been an abnormally high incidence of these ) , but we would still have expected there to be some if pilferage has been common , particularly since store security is not under Fred 's control . |
| 20 | How can the Minister assess how much money will be needed when there has been a shortfall , as there was last year ? |
| 21 | This has occurred when there has been a decline in antral tumours . |
| 22 | A transformation has taken place in the productivity of British shipbuilding because of privatisation , because there was no bottomless pit to which shipyards could turn , and because of the sheer reality that none of those yards would exist unless there had been a quantum change in working practices . |
| 23 | If the discretion can be exercised where there has been a fraudulent misrepresentation , as in the present case , it must be exercisable also where a merely innocent misrepresentation has been made . |
| 24 | An initial child protection conference should not be called until there has been a s47 investigation into any incident or allegation of abuse which gives rise to concern . |
| 25 | It is impossible to reconcile the decision in Lawrence ( that the question of consent is irrelevant in considering whether there has been an appropriation ) with the views expressed in Morris , which latter views in my judgment were incorrect . |
| 26 | Ian was the best at making himself understood as he had been a Latin scholar . |
| 27 | Jaruzelski , who had five years of his term still to run , stated in a letter read to parliament on July 28 that he would make his intentions known once there had been a debate on the timing of presidential and parliamentary elections . |
| 28 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 29 | When the tunnel was ‘ discovered ’ by the Russians in 1956 an inquiry was held within MI6 and also the Gehlen organisation to determine if there had been a leak to warn the Russians . |
| 30 | ‘ Ah-ha , ’ he started confidently , ‘ that would only happen if it had been a defenestration . |