Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have always been such witnesses and such representatives . ’ |
| 2 | Although still in its infancy , there have already been several approaches to case-mix accounting . |
| 3 | True , the FBI can help protect Arab-Americans : there have already been some scattered incidents of violence . |
| 4 | There have already been some 10,000 collisions between West and East German cars this year . |
| 5 | There have already been some improvements in organisation in the forces which battle drugs and terrorism , two areas of crime which recognise no geographical boundaries . |
| 6 | Once again if these changes continue to develop in the UK , the classification and definition of what constitutes a rural area will have to be radically altered , although there have already been some changes , as the next section demonstrates . |
| 7 | There have since been many battles at this strategic crossing place , but this was the first , the greatest and the most hard fought . |
| 8 | ( There have also been many smaller schemes : see CIPFA , no single date , Chapter 12 ; Thomson and Rosenberg , 1986 . ) |
| 9 | There is no doubt tremendous strides have been made in certain sections of the North 's economy but that progress has been partial and there have also been many setbacks . |
| 10 | ‘ There have also been fewer for sales or receiverships when compared to many other business sectors . |
| 11 | There have also been several periods of panic buying triggered by rumours of taxation or currency reforms . |
| 12 | There have also been several innovations in the design of styling wands and hot brushes . |
| 13 | There have also been some reports of ‘ disappearances ’ following arrests by the military or police since July 1990 . |
| 14 | While research on the agronomic side of conservation has taken considerable strides during the past fifteen years for all its problems of misapplication , there have also been some advances in the thinking on the socio-economic side of soil erosion and the resulting design of conservation programmes as well . |
| 15 | There have also been some very encouraging noises from the Pipe stable , which has resulted in a major gamble from 14–1 to 4 's over the last couple of weeks . |
| 16 | There have also been some striking results from an Australian project which developed methods by which the students ( aged 15-16 ) took greater control of their own learning , including planning the lesson sequences and posing their own questions for enquiry . |
| 17 | Nonetheless , there have latterly been some notable donations from individuals in Britain : like the Sainsbury brothers ' new wing for the National Gallery and the Clore Foundation 's for the Tate ; Terence Conran 's £7m for the establishment of the Design Museum in Docklands , and Paul Hamlyn 's cheap weeks for children at the Royal Opera House . |
| 18 | Whether the costs savings are very considerable is hard to say but there have undoubtedly been some sayings ; what is clear , however , is that costs have been whittled down and that this has had a widespread effect on the production of newspapers in Britain . |
| 19 | There have always been some old people who were influential and highly regarded , in contrast to the many others who were treated with ridicule , antagonism , or at best patronized as dependents . |
| 20 | There have always been some students in serious difficulties . |
| 21 | I accept that there have always been some problems , but if one keeps filling the pot with water it will overflow . |
| 22 | In the tradition of Western philosophy there have always been those who longed for a society in which injustice and poverty were abolished and people able to share their material possessions . |
| 23 | Historically we can establish that there have always been these waves of hooliganism in particular form . |
| 24 | The welfare state in Britain has always been pluralistic in that there have always been several sources of welfare provision . |
| 25 | It is clearly important to establish what the earliest plan of a village was , since there have often been many post-medieval changes . |
| 26 | ‘ Sexuality ’ has in many ways been most resistant to this challenge , precisely because its power seems to derive from our biological being , but there have recently been several sustained challenges to sexual essentialism , from quite different theoretical approaches : the interactionist ( associated particularly with the work of Gagnon and Simon , and in Britain Kenneth Plummer ) ; the psychoanalytic ( associated with the reinterpretation of Freud initiated by Jacques Lacan , and taken up by feminist writers such as Juliet Mitchell ) ; and the discursive , taking as its starting point the work of Michel Foucault . |
| 27 | There have now been several reports that have pointed to the fact that even in industries where there is a commitment to high safety standards , there is evidence that something is going wrong in the implementation and organisation . |
| 28 | ‘ There have never been any thoughts in my mind that I would get something from the Government . ’ |
| 29 | As there is no access to the shore there have never been any businesses based on the sea . |
| 30 | ‘ And there have never been any pressures . ’ |