Example sentences of "[conj] have [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no signs anywhere of Wolski 's background , of the fact that he spoke Polish or had once been Jewish , or of the God that had been present at his birth but on whom he had turned his back before the godlessness in a death camp called Sobibor . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) On an application for an order being made under subsection ( 1 ) above by any club , the sheriff clerk shall forthwith give notice thereof to the chief constable who may , within 21 days of the date of the receipt by him of such notice , lodge with the sheriff clerk objections to the making of such order on the ground that one or more of the conditions set out in subsection ( 2 ) above has not or have not been satisfied in relation to the club , and shall , on lodging any such objections , send a copy thereof to the secretary of the club ; and if any such objections are lodged and not withdrawn , the sheriff shall , as soon as may be , hear parties upon the application and objections and may order such enquiry as he thinks fit , and shall thereafter make or refuse to make the order applied for , and may award expenses against the unsuccessful party . |
| 3 | After correcting the posture we will find that movements become easier and we will sense a lightness that has not been present since childhood . |
| 4 | The counsellor may be able to facilitate communication between the couple that has not been possible at home . |
| 5 | The difference between short and long rates has produced a yield curve that has rarely been steeper . |
| 6 | Given the fact that many of the old people concerned are of a generation , class and gender that has traditionally been deferential , it is small wonder if they are characteristically timid and grateful in these exchanges ! |
| 7 | The theory is that the only thing that has ever been wrong with the health service is a lack of resources . |
| 8 | Yet Christianity is a religion that has always been open to rational criticism when its critics have been granted the freedom to make their challenge known . |
| 9 | It should be a mounting series of difficulties , only here the difficulties are not major confrontations but small incidents such as a foot caught in a briar root or a gate that has always been open now proving to be locked . |
| 10 | The surveys will enable a more detailed explanatory model of the speech-community to be achieved than has previously been possible , with relevant linkages to social and economic factors , population structure and trends , and key public institutions such as the media , education and administration . |
| 11 | There seem to be several reasons for its emergence : a backlog of untrained practitioners ; a desire to certificate practice , for a variety of reasons , including status ; labour shortages which require quick solutions ; and a growth of theory or technology in the field itself , requiring more systematic training than has hitherto been necessary . |
| 12 | It may of course lead to a greater use of the concept of collateral warranties than has hitherto been necessary . |
| 13 | And while they charge the teacher with more responsibility than has sometimes been customary in the past , they also bring corresponding rewards in the way of job satisfaction and self-esteem . |
| 14 | If the hon. Lady knew what was available to those of her constituents who are unemployed , she would know that we offer a wider range of help to unemployed people than has ever been available in this country before . |
| 15 | He exploited a temporary lull in affairs to extract more concessions from the Romans than had hitherto been possible . |
| 16 | Deem gives the example of cuts in teacher training , which had the effect of reducing the opportunities that had previously been available to large numbers of girls who had been considered by their teachers to be , as they put it to Michelle Stanworth , ‘ not university material ’ . |
| 17 | In the countryside farmers began to claim as their own the land that had previously been state-owned . |
| 18 | Too much apple pie ’ , kicked its way into many ears that had previously been unaware of the band 's existence . |
| 19 | Bulford , where the Avon and the Nine Mile River meet , is just a short distance from Stonehenge , and was one of the first sites on Salisbury Plain to be bought by the War Office at the turn of the century and turned into a garrison , bringing new industry to a village that had previously been dependent on agriculture . |
| 20 | Companies that had previously been prepared to pay the Institute 's tuition fees , which are higher than for other professional qualifications , now queried it . |
| 21 | Another view was that six-monthly reports should only be required in relation to those firms ( regardless of size ) that had already been late in delivering their annual reports . |
| 22 | God you can tell that had n't been open for a while ! |
| 23 | She 'd intended to make a sharp retort , but even to her own ears her voice sounded tremulous , full of longing that had n't been satisfied . |
| 24 | The 1975 definition was an exceptionally pure version that had not been current previously and only lasted a year or two . |
| 25 | This signalled the arrival of the half of the school that had NOT been early for assembly , who tried to enter the sports hall at the same time as the half that had just been thrown out tried to exit . |
| 26 | His letter from Houston had been an update , filling in a range of details that had not been capable of being fitted into coded messages to and from Houston in the form of price-lists of market produce . |
| 27 | I fell hard against the asphalt playground and I felt the pain that had not been visible on film . |
| 28 | But subjects that experienced a reminder treatment ( unsignalled foot-shocks given in a different apparatus ) between the conditioning trials and the test session showed almost as much conditioned responding as control subjects that had not been pre-exposed to the noise . |
| 29 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 30 | People that had once been poor , often virtually on the breadline , were now much more elegantly dressed and had achieved a far higher standard of living . |