Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have [adv] [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry . |
| 2 | Once again if these changes continue to develop in the UK , the classification and definition of what constitutes a rural area will have to be radically altered , although there have already been some changes , as the next section demonstrates . |
| 3 | She chewed the pencil , swallowing splinters ; what could she tell Mrs Rundle , who was now ( if she had ever been much more than ) a stranger , living at a distance , forgetting them , putting them into her past , memories packed with other memories in her bulging handbag ? |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not as if she 's ever been any different , ’ she said . |
| 5 | ‘ There she is ! ’ cried her father , as if there had ever been any doubt about her arrival . |
| 6 | If there had ever been any chance that the Whigs might lose the support of the great mass of the population , the poor , the unpropertied , the emergent working class , that possibility had now gone . |
| 7 | He might add that , if there had ever been any prospect that the class war would provide its movement , that prospect had patently disappeared except , ironically , in those eastern European countries bound to submit to Russian supervision . |
| 8 | The charge was such an obvious frame-up that he had to ask himself if there had ever been any intention to try him on it . |
| 9 | If there had only been some way they could have gone in the doors of University College together and come home on the bus each night , or better still got a flat together , life would have been perfect . |
| 10 | He came , towards the end of the nineties , to believe that there are erm there must be things which are in the strictest possible sense non-mental , and which would be what they were , even if there had never been any minds that were conscious of them . |
| 11 | Her hatred — if it had even been that — had turned out to be as intensely personal as her love and an intrinsic part of it , Maria acknowledged privately . |
| 12 | Because there had never been enough of anything to go around , and never would be . |
| 13 | I have chosen Vaughan because there has already been some analysis of deixis in his poetry — notably by Roger Sell in his article " The unstable discourse of Henry Vaughan " ( 1987 ) . |
| 14 | In his dream he felt relief because she had n't died , because it had all been some other dream , because she was smiling in the sunshine . |
| 15 | The reason I cover my head is difficult to explain , because it 's always been that way . |
| 16 | It is clearly important to establish what the earliest plan of a village was , since there have often been many post-medieval changes . |
| 17 | It is doubtful whether they had ever been such a serious liability to the Yorkist regime . |
| 18 | It is doubtful whether they had ever been such a serious liability to the Yorkist regime . |
| 19 | as though there had never been another world , and when a boy she knew , who lived in Doncaster , asked if he could come over and take her out , she refused him , although she liked him , because she knew that she could not bear to allow herself to emerge . |
| 20 | For a long time after independence , English was the language of the educated élite , just as it had largely been that of the colonial administration . |