Example sentences of "have be [art] [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , but if they 'd have , if they 'd have said look , we 're onto erm a job now which would 've been a big job and it looks like it finishing up in Yorkshire , finishing up in Lancashire , be ready if we give a call out .
2 There has been no big inquest and I 'm confident we 'll bounce back .
3 Mortality There has been no operative mortality but two late deaths have occurred ; one patient had a fatal motorcycle accident and a further patient who suffered chronic small bowel obstruction after pouch surgery developed fatal septicaemia after pouch excision seven years after the original operation ( table II ) .
4 She has been a keen walker and rock climber for many years and has climbed in the Alps , Pyrenees and Dolomites .
5 This last year all these outgoings have meant that fundraising has been a real necessity and to try to relieve that pressure , the committee have decided to raise the subs .
6 This may not be obvious if there has been a major problem and a solution has evaded many attempts to reach it .
7 From time to time Earth suffers bombardment from meteors and comets , and meteoritic impact has been a major planet-shaper and climate-modeller .
8 In Central Office , Patrick Gower consoled himself , ‘ It has been a strenuous year but it has been worth it and it has been fun .
9 For North it has been a disappointing season and Saturday 's 57-run defeat summed up their form this year .
10 ‘ It has been a phenomenal response and shows that there are people in need of these jobs . ’
11 Since 1815 Switzerland has been a neutral country and at peace with everyone .
12 Phil Farrand says it is brilliant … it has been a long slog and has meant a lot of hard work
13 I hope the Lord will forgive me but this has been a great experience and you would n't know Mabel , she is brown in the sun here , it is very nice , but I do n't like the dust .
14 The business sponsorship incentive scheme has been a great success and I am giving further encouragement to sponsorship of the arts by increasing its budget by £1 million a year to £4.5 million .
15 With a trading profit for C&P last year of £473 million on sales of £4.2 billion [ 9 per cent up on 1986 ] , there can now be no doubt that the move has been a great success and that the thinking behind it was sound .
16 Although there has been a great song and dance about his supposedly suspect temperament this season , I ca n't fault it .
17 Finally , to the one person who throughout my life has been a great friend and now my husband , .
18 Whenever there has been a whiff of financial scandal in the past , the Opposition , very much to their credit , have raised it and brought it before the public , and there has been a great hue and cry about it .
19 Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively .
20 The loss of striker Andy Saville for the season with a broken arm has been a tremendous blow and manager Alan Murray is making inquiries to replace him .
21 Bradley has been a lifelong Democrat and it shows .
22 Mick , 44 , said : ‘ It has been a desperate battle and now it will get worse .
23 Townsend , who has only just returned to Premiership action for new club Aston Villa , said : ‘ It has been a slight worry but I 'm in no pain and after today 's training I know I 'll definitely play . ’
24 There is not much doubt that in the past direct mail has been a blunt instrument and often still is .
25 ‘ It has been a tough haul but things are starting to pick up .
26 However , this has been a costly process and the fall in house prices since 1989 has made it impossible to earn adequate returns from these investments in the short-term .
27 I 'm happy for them both , Reg has been a lonely man and my mother has also been lonely since dad 's death .
28 Since Watergate , Nixon has been a discredited figure and some of his attempts to bring order to the fragmented system of government stepped beyond the bounds of legality .
29 On each occasion the initial stage has been a dramatic success and the final outcome a categorical failure — responsible in my judgment for the defeat both of Mr Heath 's and Mr Callaghan 's governments .
30 It has been a hard battle and you have borne the brunt of it .
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