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

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1 Tutorial Classes continued to be seen as the most important element in the WEA 's programme and there had been some increase in their provision in recent years .
2 I think there are various strategies that you can adopt with children , I think the first and most obvious is work through the educational system , through schools and there 's been many excellent school 's programmes developed !
3 Children who are disabled cause an extra financial burden to their parents and there have been some moves to acknowledge this .
4 Mr Barber said : ‘ In the East Anglian Customs and Excise region there have been no arrests in relation to these imports but there have been some seizures of alcohol at boot sales in Norfolk and Suffolk . ’
5 It is a controversial establishment because it is entirely staffed by NSA personnel and there has been much local discussion as to whether the station operates in the interests of Australia or only America .
6 Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively .
7 they 've had they 've been out two days on bikes , borrowed John 's children 's bikes and bikes and they 've been all round
8 … the Act has facilitated progress and there has been some encouragement of home teaching programmes through educational support grants .
9 He was the product of an actual family experience ; his father had fought for the South in the Civil War and there had been some decline from gentility , but he was as much a product of family myth .
10 The guide was written by Des Hannigan and there has been some friction between the two in recent years , caused to some extent by Rowland and Mark Edwards ' new-routing techniques .
11 Generally , however , discipline has not been a problem between them in recent years and there have been some pulsating contests .
12 There are a variety of sources ranging from the Urban programme of the Department of the Environment to charities but there has been much uncertainty about funding , the Legal Aid Annual Reports regularly referring to the financial problems of particular centres .
13 There was an emphasis on the generation of female employment as well as on the general need for diversification but there had been little development by the outbreak of war .
14 In the UK , different local authorities have developed a range of renewal policies but there has been little attempt to evaluate their effect in the wider urban context .
15 The spot was clearly a favourite one with the crew and there had been several men dozing there when Owen and Mahmoud had appeared .
16 Both had been having affairs and there had been several brief separations .
17 ‘ Some players were just not doing their stuff at Bradford and there has been some strong talking this week . ’
18 Captain Pugwash is probably his best-known character but there have been many others : Harris Tweed , Lettice Leefe , Mary , Mungo and Midge , Sir Prancelot , and Cardinal Grotti in the Catholic Herald .
19 Not until the anonymous informant had rung again on 4 August and there had been more calls to Lawrence , and they had finally made contact with John Lewis , did the Panel begin to find out what had really happened .
20 ‘ If you mean drugs , then no , Adam , you 're way off line and you have been all the time — as you 'd realise for yourself if you 'd just open your eyes and see the truth instead of what you want to see . ’
21 As examples of the achievements of these minds , I think of the Gandavyuha and the Sufis ' planes of reality but there have been many others whose level of vision is as extensive though in no sense more penetrating or more brilliant .
22 So did the England B team here last year and there have been some rakings on this tour .
23 ‘ We have been waiting for grants but there has been some debate about whether croquet is a sport because of the pace it 's played at . ’
24 Cyclists and horse riders are keen to progress with the scheme but there has been some opposition from one particular village .
25 In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term .
26 Ironically , it was a track which Lauda had always opposed on safety grounds and there had been much discussion about the Ring 's lack of safeguards and medical access ( the track is so long , – kilometres , that marshals and safety equipment were not only widely scattered but often whole stretches of the track , such as that where Niki 's car went off , could not be seen from any marshal 's post ) .
27 It is a long tradition within the firm to produce handmade farewell cards and there have been some beauties — apt and humorous — which have left the donors proud of their efforts and the recipients amused and flattered .
28 The Gnomes had gone to considerable trouble ; Culdub and Bith had sat up long hours and consulted books and chronicles and there had been much burning of late candles and worried scurryings to and fro between the Gnomes ' houses in the little mountain village .
29 It was a full week before they reappeared in The Bar ; we had n't seen them for six nights and there had been much discussion .
30 Whichever way , she probably had n't given it much thought at the time and it had been some time later when her mother had told her that he had left the country and gone abroad to work .
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