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

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1 For the sake of the argument we must assume that the space covered by the arch is proportional to the benefits , so that there has been some purpose in making the arch as broad as possible .
2 Perhaps if I had been more of an expert the differences would have been more apparent , but experts always tend to obscure the obvious .
3 Oh yes very much so and we 've been these er lots secretaries and presidents and all miners and that they 've been coming up you know and er you had a chat with them and they put us do n't let this happen , do n't let that happen , and make sure that erm you know people do n't suffer and er oh it 's been quite a vast experience for us yeah .
4 Ring Philip and B T , not that there 's been any problems .
5 People are unlikely to pay much more attention to his decisions just because there has been some fiddling with the constitution .
6 I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second .
7 A shiver ran through Theda 's body — the frame that was near a shadow of itself , just as it had been that long-gone day in March .
8 She was nervous before stepping onto the set of Delinquents , just as she had been all those years ago when she did the rehearsals for The Henderson Kids .
9 Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable .
10 The disease progressed rapidly and there 's been little or no remission . ’
11 So we we may have to pursue that further but there has been some progress after all this time and expenditure of money and and time .
12 It was hours now since we had last eaten , hours more since there had been any sleep .
13 Stability tests on pilot batches and on first production batches should be carried out not only in the case of new products but also where there has been any change in the formulation of the product or in the source of the raw materials used or in the equipment used in manufacture or filling or in the method of manufacture or filing .
14 This gives you time to chase it up if there have been any hiccups .
15 As a final note on the range of legal options , it should be pointed out that there have been several suggestions that a new form of incorporation should be introduced to combine some of the features of company and partnership but without the problems associated with limited partnerships .
16 Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night .
17 I wanted to find out if there had been any mistakes , so I asked Ron if he had spotted any .
18 Geneva was the centre of the terrorist trade , it was the one place where Duncan would find out if there had been any international involvement in the kidnap .
19 The gallery is frail now and there has been some reconstruction , which is continuing with the whole of the property .
20 After all , he was a serving liaison officer between the CIA and the White House , even if he had been little more than a sleeper for several years .
21 Even if there had been such an agreement , there was nothing to stop the board getting rid of Mr Venables if it wished , said Mr Heslop .
22 I mean , even if there had been some war I did believe worth fighting , if I 'd been called up or something , I 'm a coward , I 'm just not physically capable .
23 Endemic to that problem , even if there had been some certainty about previous spends , is the unpredictability about future trends : ten unforeseen multi-handicapped users can throw budgets completely out of kilter .
24 Even if there had been another big story , it would have to be very big indeed to be bigger than this one ! ’
25 Even if there has been some limited Government recognition of this fact , changes in the taxation structure have lagged badly behind changes in the market place .
26 And of course it would n't if we 'd been more accurately given the address , but
27 well after he 's been all this while .
28 Even when they had been little more than babies he had started to corrupt them .
29 A considerable number of sites fall into this category , even when there has been some aerial photography and excavation , as for example at Braintree and Horncastle .
30 So the current position is that there 's been substantial progress er in Greater York , and I think its testimony to the willingness of the Greater York authorities to work together there that there 's been such a level of agreement I think probably er never before achieved in the Greater York area as to the direction that Greater York erm er should take .
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