Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Petterson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Pettersson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways … ’ |
| 3 | Right Well garages the there are already some here and here , both in here and here that have been built as part of Ayletts Field . |
| 4 | His relationship with Don Roberto had been strictly business and even that had been in abeyance since Trent 's posting to Ireland . |
| 5 | The clashes failed to sabotage a new peace meeting on June 22 , if indeed that had been the aim , and representatives of all main parties attended , except the right-wing Conservative Party and some of its allies . |
| 6 | Some of these continued into the Middle Ages and beyond and have been well recorded . |
| 7 | For next year , we 're also getting a further specific grant , which we 're showing up here , but instead of continuing the distribution that we 've got in the current year , the government have decided that that should be entirely distributed on S S A factors , and again that 's been to the detriment of Sh Shropshire . |
| 8 | In ( 145 ) and ( 146 ) , the subject of cause is clearly a condition , and the to infinitive evokes its consequence : the causal agent is not conceived as actually doing anything in either of these sentences but merely as having been the condition giving rise to a new state of affairs . |
| 9 | Mungo crouched and ran his hands through the grass wondering about the bird 's skull , but even that had been removed . |
| 10 | The unlucky loser was Reid but then that 's been the story of his season . |
| 11 | He knew well enough , because once that had been his world too . |
| 12 | While the engine is out of the boat we will renew the sound insulation in the engine compartment , which is very dirty as well as having been superseded by much better materials in the intervening years , and install a much-needed light — have you tried to get a Volvo MD7a dipstick back into its hole , aboard a Sigma , in the dark ? |