Example sentences of "have be [verb] [prep] [det] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What has been lost in all this second-guessing is the wanton reckless joy of his finest records . |
| 2 | This has been assisted by some former colonial possessions in Africa maintaining strong economic , financial and trading relationships with France . |
| 3 | One favoured process is known as back-arc spreading and this has been applied to several such basins . |
| 4 | But , thanks to a combination of high interest rates on traditional deposit accounts over much of this period , coupled to a distinct lack of publicity for SAYE , it has been relegated to little more than a footnote in the long list of savings options . |
| 5 | A much fresher horse who has been trained for this all season is Brown Windsor , fourth two years ago . |
| 6 | There comes a time , for people like you and me , when the mind has been stripped of all that is mythic . |
| 7 | That is the board 's view of Government policy — the very same Government policy that the House has been told has been endorsed by all those in the construction industry . |
| 8 | Incredible to think that it has been going on all these years … |
| 9 | There would be revealed the incredible amount of effort which in the name of ‘ god ’ , has been expended on all those evil things that it should be the objective of the kind of religion that the human race hungers for , to banish from the face of the earth . |
| 10 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 11 | Apple Computer Inc has been left with little more than a garbage can in its protracted suit against Microsoft Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co alleging that Windows infringes its copyright in the Macintosh user interface . |
| 12 | The life of a Home Secretary has been depicted by several former holders of the office as being unduly susceptible to interruption by sudden and totally unexpected incidents which require all his attention : |
| 13 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 14 | But of course we were very strongly against it really but er , because th you know we 'd been inundated with all these marvellous ideas of this progress and it 's all for the best and everything , but it does n't seemed to have work does it really ? |
| 15 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 16 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 17 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 18 | I think he must have been putting on all that business with his ankle , just to gain sympathy . ’ |
| 19 | This was because these capitalists lived in part or in whole out of the profits which should have been shared with all those who had helped in the process of production . |
| 20 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 21 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 22 | It is plain that if the judge had been appraised of all these matters now before the court , he would have come to the same conclusion as we have , namely that the necessary intention had not been proved on the part of the appellants . |
| 23 | Her sister did not reply , confused by the question , and the anxiety that had been aroused by those few moments , during which two men had helped old Eleanor Thorne down the front path and into a waiting ambulance . |
| 24 | The tunnel had taken several months to build and some of the accusations which had been made against these same people now looked rather silly . |
| 25 | The Unity Campaign had been identified with both these changes in Party policy , and , moreover , had greatly enlivened the Party 's activity during the year . |
| 26 | They had met just three months ago , yet now it seemed that the whole of her life had been crammed into those few fleeting weeks ; as if her living had had no meaning before they met and her future would have no substance if ever he left her . |
| 27 | It was a perpetual anxiety with me that I should turn up at school wearing a dress that had been sold to that same shop by one of my fellow-pupils . |
| 28 | Richard , of course , had been preparing for some such move . |
| 29 | But the security provisions of this treaty had been translated into little more than cautious Soviet-Iraqi arms deals . |
| 30 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |