Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pron] have be [det] " in BNC.

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1 It should not be forgotten that hazards themselves have geographical distributions yet there has been little effort in the UK to develop public domain databases .
2 Half a universe away there had been another tunic cuff , the gold braid scorched and burned so that its imprint was fused on to the skin of his arm .
3 Miss Evans moved from the sink where she 'd been all this time , standing quite still , and started to clear the plates from the table .
4 In almost all villages however there has been some element of change , and usually there has been a set of related changes in which social polarization is accompanied by segregation and a shift of political power to a new ruling group , dominated by in-migrants .
5 This had the advantage that ‘ lower ’ races could be dismissed as earlier steps in the advance that had survived into the present in parts of the world where there had been less stimulus for mental development .
6 He had been discharged but a year later there had been little change in his weight .
7 As recent as a year ago there had been little confidence about the future for sheep with lambs selling poorly , farmers wondering whether it was worth spending money on good rams or even worth tupping their ewes .
8 Little more than a year earlier there had been that never-to-be-forgotten encounter at the inn .
9 But before doing that er , you may reasonably ask what action we 've taken er , during this year when it 's been such a difficult year .
10 I do not think there has ever been a period in history when there has been such a violent and irreversible change in the political and social order ( unless it be the long-term consequences of the Russian Revolution ) .
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