Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 2 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 3 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 4 | To forecast where the economy is heading , economists need information on where it is now , and where it has been in the recent past . |
| 5 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 6 | He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment . |
| 7 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 8 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 9 | For some reason she was more stricken by the loss of the letters than she had been by the news of John 's and Angela 's deaths . |
| 10 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 11 | Once you had been through the three years what did you find had developed most for you as an actor ? |
| 12 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 13 | Right and also comments and suggestions although we 've been in the business for a number of years , er comments and suggestions are always er welcomed and and and considered very carefully . |
| 14 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 15 | There is less scorn in the novel than there had been in the article , and a pity that must have come as surprise to readers of his work . |
| 16 | As one settlement worker remarked , while the after-care committees provided ‘ many more opportunities for direct personal service than there had been in the past ’ , the exchange system brought the home visitors and the club managers into the ‘ industrial side ’ and , therefore , united the social and industrial welfare of adolescents . |
| 17 | The economic crisis following the Black Death had undoubtedly given men of enterprise the opportunity to better their condition , and there was probably more mobility of population in the fifteenth century than there had been in the thirteenth . |
| 18 | I mean th th th the clan links in the south were much stronger than they were in the north , and therefore there might be even greater commercial landlord opposition to land reform than there had been in the north . |
| 19 | There was never a more astonishing Revolution accomplished in the internal system of any country than there has been within the compass of a few years in that of England … |
| 20 | Homosexuality between consenting adults aged 21 or over , and abortion during a certain period of pregnancy , are not criminal offences at present , although they have been in the past . |
| 21 | He said the miners were being asked to accept wages that were even lower than they 'd been before the war and that their working conditions were appalling . |
| 22 | The audience were no surer of this than they had been of the song . |
| 23 | But , as Mosley noted with satisfaction , these supporters were no more use to their new leader than they had been to the BUF . |
| 24 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 25 | After a year , the homoeopathically treated group was substantially better than the aspirin group , with two thirds of the patients better than they had been at the start of the trial , while none of the patients on aspirin had improved and most of them had dropped out , either because of unacceptable side-effects , or because the treatment was ineffective . |
| 26 | Thus lone parents were both relatively and absolutely worse off by the end of the 1980s than they had been at the start of the decade ( see also Roll , 1988a , 1988b ) . |
| 27 | ( In fact , the French lines there on February 21st were no better prepared than they had been on the Right Bank , and the rejoinder that if he had not had adequate forces he should not have undertaken the offensive in the first place is almost too obvious ) . |
| 28 | Certainly Churchill and Eden found that their dealings with Eisenhower and Dulles were no easier than they had been with the Democrats : in fact they often thought them worse . |
| 29 | There were clearly changes occurring , and the borderlines between social classes , never very clear at the best of times , were probably less precise than they had been before the First World War — though class barriers were by no means collapsing in the real world of health , education and social opportunity . |
| 30 | Money was now plentiful in her home , thanks to Michael 's employing her brothers in his business , while the majority of the people in Lancaster Road wore still no better off than they had been before the war . |