Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] have be [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flat was sweltering although curtains had been drawn all day to keep the sun out . |
| 2 | If Lewis had been learning more than he knew before about humility , Williams had been learning more than he knew before about medieval literature . |
| 3 | If engraving has been involved this is normally simple since , unless the book has been heavily cropped , the rectangular plate mark is visible as a slight indentation . |
| 4 | What we 're , in effect what we 're saying is that for a a number of years the Communist Party has provided , has made that moral economy work i in a s and made it work very well because rents have been reduced more than the peasants would expect erm er interest rate is extremely low . |
| 5 | Whilst librarians have been saved some paperwork , statistics of use for individual theses will now be impossible to obtain from BLDSC , and the present type of research methodology will no longer be practicable . |
| 6 | After warning had been given that poll-tax bills will average £400 ( $780 ) in April , Westminster council announced that residents will have to pay only £176 , down £19 on last year . |
| 7 | That hateful inspector had dragged her away , even though Ma had been weeping enough to fill a kettle . |
| 8 | It might be possible for people in such circumstances ( perhaps when redundancies have been notified some weeks in advance ) to be supported and perhaps taught techniques to cope with the anxiety and avoid being overpessimistic or ‘ catastrophising ’ ( see next section ) . |