Example sentences of "[det] [noun] have be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | blah , blah , blah , recommended that interview have been in both directions despite in this difficult across , and I could n't say when you could do that at midday , but the implication is you have to do it when you |
| 2 | The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself . |
| 3 | The midwife said to me , ‘ This child has been on this earth before ’ and I thought that was rather an odd thing to say , but the midwife seemed quite adamant . |
| 4 | This issue has been of particular importance within central government in recent years as the traditional task of the civil service — that of offering objective , impartial advice — has come under scrutiny . |
| 5 | As well as this , the trend over the past few years has been towards greater accountability from business in the form of information about matters other than profit and loss . |
| 6 | However , India produces some very good quality rugs , particularly in Kashmir , and the trend over the last few years has been towards finer and finer items . |
| 7 | Now if you cast your mind back to when we started the er discussion I did say I would talk about refer erm recommendations to you if you felt that this meeting had been of some benefit to yourself |
| 8 | Right in the course of our er er com our meetings Danny erm I will be asking you to recommend me to people but if , but only if you feel that this meeting has been of some benefit to you . |
| 9 | ‘ This knowledge has been of great use . |
| 10 | This assumption has been behind much of the conservative reaction to the ‘ Gorbachev phenomenon ’ . |
| 11 | This motion has been before this congress before and I am still pleased to be here to second this motion . |
| 12 | A few of the teenage mothers in this book had been in such a home . |
| 13 | Most of this book has been about mainstream mental health care of adult people . |
| 14 | That came as no surprise to us , as we know how good the business climate in this country has been in recent years with the success of deregulation and low taxation and the attractiveness of Britain as a home of inward investment . |
| 15 | Such reactions have been at best unhelpful and at worst extremely damaging . |
| 16 | Quite a number of experiments leading to such identification have been with small aspect ratio Bénard convection ( Sections 22.1 , 22.4 ) [ 87 , 181 , 246 ] ; small in this context means not much greater than unity . |
| 17 | Such legislation has been through detailed preparation including the publication of draft clauses . |
| 18 | Experience gained in the course of employment as Librarian , British Geological Survey ( BGS ) , Edinburgh , suggests that such theses have been of great practical benefit to the geological community . |
| 19 | ‘ I am thinking that maybe these gentlemen have been to one English Wine Shop , ’ said Dr Haidar , speaking in that slightly sanctimonious tone that Muslims sometimes adopt when discussing alcohol . |
| 20 | The exercise of these duties has been at all times , and remains , subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 21 | Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later . |
| 22 | BY THE sound of ‘ Tantrum ’ and ‘ Intact ’ , these people have been through some murderous , futile relationships . |
| 23 | Almost all of these men had been in psychiatric hospitals at some time in their lives , especially the younger ones . |
| 24 | The rarity of such positive conceptions of homosexuality within , or in relation to , otherness , is the more significant given that homosexuals have been among those who have literally ( rather than metaphorically or theoretically ) embraced the cultural and racial difference of the ‘ other ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ First time that thing 's been of some use ! ’ |
| 26 | His own pleasure had been of shorter duration for he was very well aware that he ought somehow to have protected this trusting girl from himself . |
| 27 | In contrast , the drop in the United Kingdom over the same period has been from 4.4 to 3.1 per 100,000 of the population — a reduction of 32 per cent . |
| 28 | Talabani , in Ankara on Oct. 26-28 for talks with Demirel and with European and United States representatives protested that both operations had been against civilian areas . |
| 29 | ‘ Most approaches have been from smaller chemical plants . |
| 30 | Both horses have been in bad health recently , so the organisers made the course as easy as possible . |