Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] have be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This neutralised the efforts of the consortium since all funds committed so far had been for the purchase of the collection intact ; they could not be used for individual sale bids or any subsequent related negotiations . |
| 2 | Someone moved , close by , someone whose approach so far had been in silence , and she quickly took her hand away . |
| 3 | Most of the JMU visits so far have been to practices of this size . |
| 4 | However , the emphasis in the project so far has been on formulating these individual solutions rather than on co-ordinating them . |
| 5 | Most of the NII 's work so far has been on an earlier ‘ reference design ’ , which has now been superseded by a ‘ contract ’ design . |
| 6 | The accent so far has been on production and we need to spread its use in the commercial , R&T and other support functions . |
| 7 | The only difference of opinion so far has been over boxing . |
| 8 | Most of the gas discovered so far has been from the Z2 Carbonate but a few finds have also been made from the Z3 Carbonate in the western Netherlands and the adjacent offshore area , and gas is present in both the Z1 and Z2 Carbonates in Scram . |
| 9 | Krystom 's main impact so far has been in catching carp , the Independent readers of the fish world . |
| 10 | We estimate the cost of this campaign so far has been in excess of £20,000 . |
| 11 | Her career so far has been in publishing , and , following the birth of her son James in 1982 , this has enabled her to work from home . |
| 12 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 13 | After a long searching , entangled in other happenings , detained by pointless encounters far from the village , I wake , and that place whose spirit so often but always so briefly has been within my reach , is once more lost forever . |
| 14 | It was odd , Hope thought , as he lay deeply sunk in the great feather mattress , how perfect and desirable such a dowry would so recently have been to John — for Mary was the only child and it was apparent that the landlord would give her everything . |
| 15 | ‘ The Home Secretary always escorts the Queen to the door and could not possibly have been at the Cenotaph before her . ’ |
| 16 | She suggests that the offending Geordie dialect ‘ might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield ’ - could it not also have been from Norfolk , Suffolk or Dorset ? |
| 17 | After electricity privatization , however , the government is allowing power companies to select which stations should be fitted with FGD ; the majority thus far have been in eastern England . |
| 18 | She praises the risk takers , wealth creators , people who are frequently from modest backgrounds and who may not even have been at a university . |
| 19 | Gozitan wine is cheap but just recently has been of variable quality . |
| 20 | For example Alec Hume 's memoirs were described them as this little book about fishing , a beautiful evocation of a countryman in Downing Street who would always rather have been with his fly on the river Tweed on the Scottish Borders . |
| 21 | His fantasy would more probably have been of Robyn as the first female , naked centre-forward for Birmingham City . |
| 22 | Nader Nadirpur came home late having been for a drive along the Bois de Boulogne to calm his nerves after a particularly bad day . |
| 23 | The ‘ unit of workload ’ can be a day in hospital , a diagnostic test or a particular procedure , but more recently has been in the form of a case . |
| 24 | The ‘ unit of workload ’ can be a day in hospital , a diagnostic test or a particular procedure , but more recently has been in the form of a case . |
| 25 | Even 18 months ago , the material would most probably have been in the form of near-illegible carbon copies of an original laboriously produced on a manual typewriter — devices which until recently had to be registered with the authorities . |
| 26 | The Premier could just as easily have been on the slalom — ducking and diving as MPs taunted him over the Exchange Rate Mechanism fiasco . |
| 27 | All the land out there had been under water once . |
| 28 | Catherine was so quiet that she might as well not have been in the room and it occurred to him that he must train her to make some unobtrusive signal to him when she thought he was missing something . |
| 29 | Rhodri was still muttering , unwilling to give up his customary pessimism , but he might as well not have been in the room with them , he counted for so little at this moment . |
| 30 | But he could n't possibly have been in love with her ! ’ |