Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [pron] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've read Practical PC from issue 1 , you will know that there have been more graphics standards since 1981 than you can shake a stick at , culminating in today 's VGA standard as the required minimum in a ‘ bog standard ’ machine . |
| 2 | The right hon. Gentleman has done a great deal during his period in the House for disabled people and everyone in the House admires him for what he has done , but he must know that there have been dramatic improvements in recent years in the scope , range and value of benefits and in the number of disabled people who receive them . |
| 3 | Well , now that she was no longer there , he would have to pay attention ; would know that she had been serious . |
| 4 | Does she know that you 've been unfaithful to her once already and are willing to be again — except that this time I 'm not co-operating ? |
| 5 | Anyone who studies academic standards in our schools over the past 20 years must recognise that there have been considerable improvements . |
| 6 | they did not consider that there had been enough preliminary discussion in their school prior to the review . |
| 7 | I did n't even know if they had been responsible but I had nothing more to offer . |
| 8 | A large venture capital organisation , who refused to comment on individual headhunter performance , wrote that on the whole good candidates had been put forward , but that they would not know if there had been any leaks or illegal use of information by search firms . |
| 9 | ‘ Maybe they 'll know if there 's been any traffic over the road . ’ |
| 10 | Lastly , the GCSE requires pupils to wait for the length of a two-year course before they can know whether they have been successful , whereas a record of achievement is only the most recent and perhaps summarizing statement of progress which the pupils themselves have monitored and recorded . |
| 11 | And I do n't know whether anybody 's been successful . |
| 12 | yes , and I , I do n't know whether I 've been that way , I honestly do n't know right then , so you 're all systems go , that 's the main thing |
| 13 | Her work will also explore whether there have been significant differences between the involvement of women in Scottish party politics and that of the United Kingdom as a whole . |
| 14 | Because when you raised the telephone … he showed great irritation and pretended not to hear you , so that it immediately made you think that you 'd been unwise to telephone at all . |
| 15 | Having heard the exchanges earlier today , I do not think that there has been any suppression . |
| 16 | Churchill , as First Lord of the Admiralty , could not explain that he had been conscious of enemy intentions , without giving away the secret that German codes were being broken . |
| 17 | I can not feel that we had been negligent , had we been dealing with another man . |
| 18 | For example , if a school has attempted to improve its image in the neighbourhood it may feel that it has been successful if the number selecting the school for the following academic year increases . |
| 19 | A party seeking to establish a course of dealing must show that there has been regular trading between the parties , and the dealing must have been consistent . |
| 20 | It did not matter whether they had been far-sighted landowners , former artisans or merchants in feudal society ; what is crucial for Marxists is the belief that their ownership of the new and increasingly predominant mode of production led them to have common interests and goals . |
| 21 | Of course I can easily perceive when you have been obliged to form your ideas from stuffed specimens . |
| 22 | We did not claim that there had been any cases of poisoning in Britain , but referred to the numerous American cases ( FDA Drug Bulletin 1977 , vol 7 , p 26 ; New England Journal of Medicine 1979 , vol 300 , p 238 ) . |
| 23 | I have considered the matter and I shall continue to do so , but I do not believe that there has been any dereliction of duty in this important matter . |
| 24 | You will soon see that I have been right all this time . |
| 25 | By the end of the project we could report that there had been some changes and developments in practice . |
| 26 | Robertson J. decided the preliminary issue in favour of the petitioner holding that no binding compromise had been reached ; he did not therefore decide whether there had been any cancellation of compromise . |
| 27 | This does not imply that there has been fierce opposition — indeed , the vote in favour of the merger has been nearly unanimous at each meeting . |
| 28 | Would that apply if they 'd been independent but gone back into it ? |
| 29 | Under rational expectations , movements in aggregate demand can affect real output if those movements are random because , faced with an unexpectedly high price for the good on her island , the typical supplier will at least partly infer that there has been some positive , relative demand shock on her island . |
| 30 | The Court of Appeal held that the evidence did not establish that there had been any direct procurement by the defendants of any wrongful acts by the drivers or loaders or that the latter had committed any wrongful acts ; also that there was no evidence of any actual knowledge by the defendants of any contract between Bowaters and the plaintiffs . |