Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] have [adv] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's same as , what ow she 's gone into hospital with her , you know , and I 'd actually been that day , you know what I mean , I do n't mind , do n't get me wrong , I 'm not cross , 'cos I do n't mind . |
| 2 | And she had never been that . |
| 3 | He admitted the party and individual MPs received a total of nearly £38,000 , but insisted it was all legal and there had never been any attempt to favour the pachinko industry in parliament . |
| 4 | As a result , overall our sales were down , roughly in line with our competitors in the oil service industry , but there was continuing pressure on margins and profitability and there had obviously been some build-up on the international side in anticipation of higher sales . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've always felt in the past that if anyone had a problem , they could always come to me and talk about it , and there have n't been many problems that we have n't been able to solve that way . ’ |
| 6 | He says if it was Satanic there would be signs of a ritual and there have n't been any . |
| 7 | Only five naked-eye novæ have appeared during the last twenty years , and there have not been many more within binocular range . |
| 8 | There is no doubt tremendous strides have been made in certain sections of the North 's economy but that progress has been partial and there have also been many setbacks . |
| 9 | ‘ And there have never been any pressures . ’ |
| 10 | To be sure , I have had to deal with various phenomena and minister to those who have experienced them , and there have certainly been some chilling moments , but in general a ghost would have to flay me alive with its chains before I raised an eyebrow at the possibility of its presence . |
| 11 | because it 's come out a lot in this discussion that is there 's a big gap between the biological , biological and medical knowledge that 's accrued in the last ten or fifteen years , and the actual social consequences of these developments and there has n't been enough discussion and consideration of what will happen . |
| 12 | Nastily , she said , and he had never been that before . |
| 13 | And it had n't been some unknown island wine with mystical aphrodisiac properties , had it ? |
| 14 | And it had all been such a long time ago ! |
| 15 | and it 's just been another seven years you 've been able to work |
| 16 | ‘ And at times it has almost seemed as if everyone has had something to say about me , and it has often been those people who have never read The Satanic Verses who have had the most to say . |
| 17 | I could see a barge or something out there in the middle of the Thames but I 've never been much good with boats . |
| 18 | But I 've never been this close before … ’ |
| 19 | Not only had I proved myself a liar but I 'd not been much good at school and did n't even get my leaving certificate . |
| 20 | The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night . |
| 21 | The universe had been enclosed with wood , but there had n't been enough to go round , and through the gaps nothingness waited , strips of bottomless black stuck on the rosy sky . |
| 22 | The event turned out in fact as successful as last year 's but there had not been any advantage in the February timing , . |
| 23 | But there had also been this other vision — of the ‘ green wood full of primroses ’ — which he had glimpsed through a hole in the wall , and which promised all the things which Lewis and Greeves had come to label ‘ It ’ or ‘ Joy ’ . |
| 24 | But there had never been any attempt to align other CSE grades to O level grades and it was no part of the assumptions of the dual system that someone who failed O level ( below grade E ) was of ‘ average ’ ability ( CSE grade 4 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Correct ’ treatment of prisoners had always been acknowledged , but there had never been any mention of civilian suits or bottles of whisky . |
| 26 | Carson said that in theory his own place was within the flood basin , but there had never been any trouble as long as he 'd lived there ; places right on the towpath used to get flooded regularly when the tide was high . |
| 27 | ‘ There are still occasional reports of green recycling bags going for disposal with the rest of the office refuse , and we are certainly not catching anywhere near all the potentially recyclable paper that is being thrown out , ’ commented environmental engineer Andrew Ollevant , ‘ but there have n't been any serious hiccups in getting the scheme established . ’ |
| 28 | We 'll take any signals from the UK Government but there have n't been any so far |
| 29 | But there have not been many games with such drama as we saw here today . |
| 30 | I have looked at quite a few , but there have not been any which have struck me as being ‘ the one ’ . |