Example sentences of "[pron] have been [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I have been many things in my time . |
2 | When I get back Lucker wonders where I have been all night . |
3 | ‘ You have been this way before . |
4 | Rovers have made enormous strides in the past 14 months and we were totally committed today — as we have been all season . ’ |
5 | We 're all on air , we have been all morning |
6 | Why should there have been such friction with the Nazareans in Jerusalem , some of whom had known Jesus personally and were certainly closer to him than Paul ever was ? |
7 | There have been many peace rallies many times before in Northern Ireland , the significance of today 's not the numbers , a thousand or so , but who they were . |
8 | We have been aware for some years that the relational model and relational database systems have not been able to represent some real-world concepts and activities , and there have been many papers and conferences devoted to the study of extensions and refinements to the original model of Codd ( 1970 ) . |
9 | There have been many meetings and there are many programmes under discussion . |
10 | There have been many claims that Mrs Thatcher has shifted the agenda of British politics . |
11 | Since those early days there have been many sea chases with much bigger things at stake , but broadly speaking the same rules apply , although it is sometimes difficult to be dispassionate where hard drugs are concerned . |
12 | In the modern world , democracy has often been perceived by liberals as a threat or potential threat to individual freedom , and there have been many warnings about the tyranny of the majority and the tyranny of public opinion . |
13 | There have been many disasters along the road , Yorkshire puddings you could sole your shoes with , burnt offerings of several varieties , a pat that even my dog would n't eat and last Christmas a chocolate log that disintegrated , the proud little Santa on top sinking without trace in a sea of chocolate gunge . |
14 | Since the introduction of the stored program concept , there have been many developments in the design of general-purpose digital computers , but only two can be described as vital omissions from the computer described in the previous section . |
15 | And of course there have been many moments when English art was very important on the Continent indeed . |
16 | But it is important to state that although in recent years in Britain , there have been many service innovations whose aim has been to improve the home or community care of elderly mentally frail people ( see for example Age Concern England , l983 ) , unfortunately most of these schemes have either not been systematically evaluated ( often because they have been very small in scale ) , or — if they have — results have not been widely disseminated . |
17 | There have been many times in history when Christianity has faced extreme difficulty . |
18 | There have been many times when I could n't write . |
19 | McGahern : ‘ There have been many times when I could n't write ’ |
20 | There have been many variants , but one of the most extensive and thorough applications of this principle has been at Bijlmermeer in south-east Amsterdam . |
21 | There have been many criticisms of the Chicago School but this body of work still has a great deal to teach us . |
22 | It 's written yes well supposedly there there have been many criticisms about it |
23 | There have been many experiments demonstrating the validity of this principle and exploring detailed variables such as the timing and quality of feedback . |
24 | Indeed , there have been many Government statements . |
25 | Over the past few years there have been many reports in the national press advocating that all dwellings should be fitted with smoke detectors . |
26 | Despite the fact that there have been many reports describing the central effects of neuropeptides on gastric and pancreatic secretion , there has been only one previous report of the effects of a centrally acting peptide on biliary secretion . |
27 | There have been many wars here . |
28 | To date , there have been many projects and ideas that have benefited from CIRE funding . |
29 | By contrast , Richard Smith and David Thomson have argued , on the basis of long-term demographic evidence , that forms of retirement have existed throughout history and ( particularly if one excludes the high birth-rate nineteenth century ) that there have been many periods in which a simple dependency ratio of the elderly to the non-elderly population has been high . |
30 | There have been many periods in the past when the degree of concentration has been significantly large ( Table 4. 1 ) and when such degrees of concentration have generated calls for inquiries . |