Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The views of the CBI could scarcely be clearer than they have been on the subject of the minimum wage . |
| 5 | Bans had to be introduced to give the fish stocks time to recover , and they are better now in the 1980's than they have been since the mid-1960's . |
| 6 | If these twin policies are to have any effect in reducing geographical inequalities , they need to be pursued more vigorously than they have been in the past . |
| 7 | If you are working fewer than 15 hours a week , you also have very few employment rights , until you have been in the same job for at least 5 years , working at least 8 hours a week . |
| 8 | Whether you do n't know an opera at all or whether it is an old friend , you will still enjoy the show all the more if you have been to the pre-performance talk . |
| 9 | So if you have been in the scheme all your life , you would have a half pension and a lump sum — which is tax free — of 1 ½ times your earnings . |
| 10 | And if they have been on the market the terms have often been unreasonable , with little attempt made to advertise them . |
| 11 | For example , if they have been in the Chaos terrains of locations 60–63 and a Dwarf character fell into the Nurglesque marshes , one puppet will enact this while another ( preferably an Elf Puppet , to antagonize the Dwarf adventurer ) conducts a running commentary : ‘ Oh look , boys and girls , the stunty 's fallen down . |
| 12 | ‘ Unemployment is something that personally concerns me because I have been at the edge of unemployment all my life , ’ added the 42-year-old who speaks highly of the quality of the environment on Teesside , a much richer and more vibrant and pleasant place in which to live than he had imagined . |
| 13 | ( I know , because I have been round the world ! ) |
| 14 | Should this happen , you may be entitled to compensation providing you have been with the firm for more than two years . |
| 15 | I have dealt at some length with the arrangements for mandatory support because they have been in the limelight recently and because they are the direct responsibility of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State . |
| 16 | He will be aware that I have taken a great interest in Sri Lanka since I have been in the House . |
| 17 | Secondly , on the issue of the precedents for making a defendant prove his defence in the way in which the Bill requires , I argue that every year — certainly since I have been in the House — we have created numerous new offences which have defences attached to them , usually for those who can show that they acted reasonably or that they used due diligence to ensure that they avoided committing an offence . |
| 18 | Since I have been in the Chair , the Chief Secretary has been interrupted so often that there has not been much opportunity for him to do that . |
| 19 | Is it any wonder that every one of my hon. Friends is now inundated with more complaints about housing matters than at any time since we have been in the House ? |
| 20 | Of course , after you have been through the modes in one key , remember to transpose this information to all keys , not forgetting to learn the scale harmony ( I mn7 , II m7b5 , III maj7&sharp ; 5 , IV min7 , V Dominant7 , VI maj7 , VII Diminished7 ) . |
| 21 | The fourth stage was planned to take place in late March and will show what our position is after we have been off the air for some time . |
| 22 | When I have been in the Chamber , he has raised the matter regularly with Mr. Speaker . |
| 23 | I think I was then as near to hysteria as I have been in the whole of my life . |
| 24 | when you have been through the list ask the LH to read all the words that you have in the " same " column , one after another , to see if they really are the same . |
| 25 | When we have been on the losing side in county or Test cricket nothing has been said . |
| 26 | We were there , too , as we have been on the first weekend of June in each of the past four years ; the roistering boys whose fever for drink and song has been jaded , ever so slightly , by contemplation of middle age and the fingering of indigestion tablets . |
| 27 | Delegates are still addressed as brother , sister , or comrade , but this year there are electronic signs in the hall giving the speaker 's name — as there have been at the Conservative conference for quite a while . |
| 28 | The implication is that such conflicts as there have been in the past were merely the result of misunderstanding . |
| 29 | Obviously the standards are not satisfactory but they are the same as they have been for the last 30 years and they are of Mr Pritchard 's choosing . |
| 30 | Scoured as they have been by the turbulent and freezing sands that eroded every trace of fittings and furnishings whatsoever , their walls and ceilings do bear signs : remnants of incised and sometimes inlaid strings of rectangular shapes that numerous experts have confidently identified as writing , though no truly plausible translation has ever been constructed . |