Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 2 | Unlike other UK retailers in the Canadian market — Boots came out last year and Marks & Spencer has been struggling to break even — WH Smith has shown profits growth . |
| 3 | MARKS & Spencer has been criticised by mothers who claim that it is Britain 's least parent-friendly stores group . |
| 4 | History might have been different if Cleopatra 's nose had been longer or Napoleon had been taller . |
| 5 | The European eco-label designed by Newel & Sorrell has been thrown into confusion following the introduction by France and the Netherlands of their own individual labels . |
| 6 | Costain , Tarmac , John Laing and Higgs & Hill have been forced to make huge provisions and cut their dividends . |
| 7 | Where NICs have been paid which , in the light of this latest interpretation of the rules , ought not to have been paid , application may be made by writing to : the Contribution Agency Refunds Group , Department of Social Security , Newcastle upon Tyne , NE98 1XY . |
| 8 | If only Teddy or Richard had been spared from that terrible war , she would n't be cast out like this . |
| 9 | And where Freud has been integrated with , with the social sciences , interestingly enough , what 's been integrated is not the black books so much as Freud 's writings on child development and other issues , apart from those in these books . |
| 10 | Where Deray has been making films for 30 years , Pierre Jolivet 's Force Majeure ( complete with an eccentric appearance by a French-speaking Alan Bates ) represents only his third feature . |
| 11 | They were standing by the desk in the library , where Theda had been going over the household accounts when the lawyer arrived , Hector , his wound still troublesome , laying at her feet . |
| 12 | We were then too high for much detail , but it looked a general melee back where Mala had been . |
| 13 | She asked whether Joseph or Merlyn had been back earlier . |
| 14 | Where Cooper has been taking instruction on board , Waters has been tossing it aside . |
| 15 | ‘ And did you find out where Gwen had been , Arthur ? ’ asked Dalziel softly . |
| 16 | Even where TNCs have been attracted by regional policy to locate new investments of the 1980s in assisted areas , the yield of additional jobs has been meagre . |
| 17 | I think we have to recognize that the effect of these images and the conflicts from which they spring in Brent or Bradford has been to call into question any antiracist or multicultural project in education and indeed the idea of antiracism in general . |
| 18 | But how much work was done , how much , if any , ore was obtained and how long the Quakers or Patrickson had been at work we may never discover . |
| 19 | However , much misunderstanding surrounds the nature of the so-called ‘ one voice ’ campaign which Caterer & Hotelkeeper has been instrumental in promoting . |
| 20 | In religious matters the restoration of monarchy was followed by the decisive establishment of the power of the Church of England , and in constitutional questions Charles showed that he was much more resigned to the need to work with Parliament than either Charles I or Cromwell had been , but in colonial affairs there was no change of direction , though the new government may have been able to follow its policy with more continuity than its predecessor . |
| 21 | Ernst & Young has been the exclusive distributor for KnowledgeWare in Europe since 1986 , but the company now has direct distribution operations in most European countries including Belgium , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Italy , the Netherlands , Norway , Portugal , Spain , Sweden and the UK . |
| 22 | D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles has been appointed for the UK launch next month of Procter & Gamble 's sanpro range Always . |
| 23 | With the exception of ‘ Incident on 42nd Street ’ ( 1988 ) , the diptych owned by Metropolitan Museum and omitted for budgetary reasons , the exhibition features all of the themes which the artist has explored and culminates with a selection of canvases of Coney Island , where Jacklin has been working for the last eighteen months . |
| 24 | And Mr. Marshall was very different from Ingard — where Ingard had been expansive , he was withdrawn , and where Ingard had been cocksure and flamboyant , he seemed almost nervous . |
| 25 | And Mr. Marshall was very different from Ingard — where Ingard had been expansive , he was withdrawn , and where Ingard had been cocksure and flamboyant , he seemed almost nervous . |
| 26 | The Carolingians ' heartlands , that is , the area where most of their estates were clustered , and where Franks had been settled for centuries , spanned modern Belgium and the Netherlands , northern France , and western Germany , thus lying athwart the " natural " frontiers of the Ardennes forest , and the rivers Meuse and Rhine . |
| 27 | Truman was blunt and straightforward where Roosevelt had been subtle and evasive . |
| 28 | His creator James Driscoll has just returned to Britain after signing a £20 million deal to create the 40-acre fun park in Samara , 600 miles east of Moscow — where Digswell has been made a Freeman of the City . |
| 29 | When the apostles wrote letters to their friends and colleagues they were always trying to pass on words of encouragement and the people who received these letters regarded them as precious sources of information , that is why many of the letters of Paul or John or Peter have been carefully guarded and handed down to ourselves . |
| 30 | For the US or Britain to have been the first to recognize Bao Dai would , said Acheson , have been to give him the kiss of death . |