Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other difficulty I have is with some of these criteria and their use at a strategic level . |
| 2 | and I put them in , and I look in my dictionary , they 're not there of course , cos my dictionary I had is from nineteen forty six |
| 3 | Readers who have been to one of my knit-club talks , will remember the prototype shown there which I referred to as the ‘ Knit-club Jumper ’ , because of the ease of making the basic jumper look different at each club meeting , just by changing the collar ! |
| 4 | It is sad when sisters and brothers who have been on good terms quarrel about who gets what , whether the reasons for wanting a particular item are commercial or sentimental . |
| 5 | And then she 's been average on the last three or four months she 's been on eight stone . |
| 6 | Whereas libertarian historians have devoted relatively little attention to this question , for the traditional liberal and Soviet schools it has been of vital importance . |
| 7 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 8 | Osric , king of Northumbria ( 718–29 ) ( HE V , 23 ) , no details of whose reign are known , could have been a son of Ealhfrith or of Aldfrith , and either way his accession will have represented a restoration of Oswiu 's family to royal power ( even if , in the former case , of a branch which had been in political eclipse for half a century ) , but his successor Ceolwulf ( 729–37 ) was a brother of Coenred ( HE V , 23 ) and Ceolwulf 's successor , Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , son of Eata , son of Leodwald , was Ceolwulf 's first cousin . |
| 9 | We apply such a combination here to an issue which has been of central interest to urban sociology : the state , its concentration of power , and its relation to people 's daily lives . |
| 10 | A renowned ( albeit not a very successful ) crusader who had been on three expeditions , he had met and been entertained by the ablest monarchs in Europe . |
| 11 | And this was the day to do it the Women of the North lunch in Harrogate , like the Woman of the Year in London ‘ only much friendlier and more fun ’ according to a lady who 'd been to both . |
| 12 | Well I said to er one lady who 's been for first time and she thinks it 's marvellous ! |
| 13 | The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that . |
| 14 | On 2 March 1939 Pacelli was elected pope in succession to Pius XI in the shortest conclave there had been since 1623 . |
| 15 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 16 | Since entering the wood they had been in severe anxiety . |
| 17 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 18 | In Northern Ireland Constable Louis Robinson , an off-duty member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary who had been on sick leave for three years , was kidnapped from a minibus at an IRA roadblock near the border at Killeen , South Armagh , on Sept. 15 . |
| 19 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 20 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 21 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 22 | No. 9 has been on the parent line at Brecon operating Santa Specials , but all that has been seen out in Aberystwyth has been the diesel which has been out most weekdays on engineers ' trains . |
| 23 | Yesterday , he produced his second extraordinary escape act in succession by coming from behind to win 10-15 , 9-15 , 15-13 , 15-12 , 15-10 , against an opponent who has been in both of the last two world title-winning teams . |
| 24 | ( Indeed , it is psychologists who have been among those who have queried most sharply even the theoretical feasibility of my third criterion ) . |
| 25 | Over the past three years , raids have been carried out as police target crack dealers who 've been behind many shootings and violent assaults . |
| 26 | In recent years there has been among social scientists an extensive debate about the extent to which the analysis of society and of social institutions can be ‘ value-free ’ . |
| 27 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
| 28 | Er the the room , the smallest room they have is for twenty five to thirty people |
| 29 | Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night . |
| 30 | It was near the end of August , and for the last few days it had been like high summer . |