Example sentences of "have been [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should 've been first thing in morning if that would happen . |
| 2 | In 1911 he wrote : ‘ In the past man has been first , in the future the system must be first . ’ |
| 3 | Spink , who has been first choice since regaining the No 1 spot from Les Sealey in March , said : ‘ There was a time when my future seemed in jeopardy but things have turned my way again . ’ |
| 4 | All are back with Parramatta and their father Les has been first grade manager . |
| 5 | By the time you realize your accountant has been second rate , your career may be over . |
| 6 | I must mention one member — Angela ( nee Feetenby ) — for her help to me has been second to none — not only do I congratulate her for that but on your behalf I want to wish her every happiness in her new life — she was married last July to Harry Bell . |
| 7 | ‘ Until now , information about his death has been second or third hand . |
| 8 | It was the best time of his life , and everything since has been second best . |
| 9 | THINKING , talking and working along European lines has been second nature to Mike Ward for many years now . |
| 10 | ‘ I think the best I 've qualified has been 12th and I have never finished a race , so I am due something . |
| 11 | His placing so far has been third , fourth and eighth , a remarkable feat when competing against the best that Scotland can produce . |
| 12 | ‘ She 's been lying there in a state of collapse , and not a soul has been next or nigh her ! ’ |
| 13 | I explained how I 'd attempted to fire at the Corporal as Kaptan lay on the ground and how the gun had malfunctioned ; it would be more accurate to say I 'd been first to aim but the Corporal had got his shots off first . |
| 14 | He tried to remember where he 'd been last . |
| 15 | God knows where she 'd been last night . ’ |
| 16 | She fully expected him to ignore her sarcastic question , or , in his delightfully blunt fashion , tell her he was out for a walk , not an idle chinwag , when , to cause her to falter in her stride , ‘ How about — where you 'd been last Thursday while I waited outside your flat for you to come home ? ’ |
| 17 | Although the original bond rules state that transfers ‘ must have been first approved by the Club Committee ’ this appears never to have happened , although at some stage the rule was amended to apply only to ‘ non-member ’ transferees . |
| 18 | What might have been first visualised as a basic low cost word processor might have transformed into a full blown all bells and whistles application that has spreadsheets and databases built in , yet , if you 're still using the first release , you could be losing out . |
| 19 | It was necessary to show that at least some of them might have been first acquired through the will , in order to satisfy a desire , or to relieve a disagreeable sensation . |
| 20 | ‘ Vitor came third and would have been first if his car had n't hit fuel problems on the final lap , ’ Simon continued , his mind fixed on the race . |
| 21 | The standard security measure would have been second nature to me , on leaving any planet , if I had n't been burdened with so may excitements and anxieties . |
| 22 | Two or three out of every ten who came to live in south London were north Londoners who had merely crossed the river , but of course they themselves may have been second generation immigrants to the capital . |
| 23 | ‘ I would have expected more ; Particularly on the shift , which would have been next to the wound . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It must have been last night ! ’ |
| 25 | But it seems to be a lot less than it might have been last year , I mean I , do we know how many that 's , we 're talking about ? |
| 26 | and if Leicester had beaten I forgot who it was , whoever they drew against , they would have been third . |
| 27 | They spent two years organising the site , getting volunteers from not only Britain , but abroad as well , and making sure that while the battle may have been seventeenth century , twentieth century comforts were still close at hand . |
| 28 | Not only did the occupiers introduce gin to the island , which remains one of the locals ' most popular drinks , but in 1813 cricket was recorded as having been first played in Menorca by the surgeon of HMS Scipo — a match which received the patronage of Admiral Lord St Vincent , the Commander in Chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet . |
| 29 | The AEC Treaty was signed on June 3 ( the concept of an economic community having been first formulated in the 1968 Declaration of Algiers ) . |
| 30 | Pugo became Interior Minister on Dec. 2 , 1990 [ see p. 37902 ] , having been first secretary of Latvia 's CP and chairman of the CPSU control commission since 1988 . |