Example sentences of "[conj] have [adv] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CONTACT GROUPS These are usually for people who have a particular social problem in common or have just been through a similar trauma , like divorce or bereavement . |
| 2 | Since reorganization , however , as we have seen , many of the new colleges of higher education have turned to the CNAA for validation , a process that has not been without its stresses and strains . |
| 3 | Soil : The favourite growing medium for waterlilies is heavy garden soil that has not been in contact with insecticides or weed killers . |
| 4 | The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task . |
| 5 | words certainly do go out , you forget , when you go to use a word that has n't been in use sometime and the younger person says to you what does that mean ? |
| 6 | ‘ No , not like anything that has ever been in the world before . ’ |
| 7 | Planning in the railways has traditionally had an important political dimension that has sometimes been at odds with its use as an internal business tool . |
| 8 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 9 | Filled with shock of a kind that had not been with him since the actor-manager 's first refusal , Paul took himself out into the snow . |
| 10 | No force had taken a worse drubbing in the first mad onrush of Plan XVII than the Second Army that had then been under his command ; yet , in the moment of defeat , he had made an astonishing turnabout . |
| 11 | Emily had taken her revenge swiftly , severing the ties that had long been between the Grenfells and the Morgans . |
| 12 | Rachel could see the reasoning behind that , but nevertheless felt angry towards Damian Flint — not because he had so obviously done the right thing , but because he was so clearly in complete control of a situation that had always been beyond Rachel . |
| 13 | His father 's four mahogany filing-cabinets from Primrose Cottage were there , in pairs against two walls , between glass-fronted bookcases that had always been in the room . |
| 14 | There was a book that had always been in Primrose Cottage , a thick book with a torn green dust-jacket . |
| 15 | For somebody that had never been in sales before you remember a lot from the course |
| 16 | We 've been in touch with all the local schools in the in the Mansfield area er we 've followed up inquiries of girls that have not been at school and so on and er these er have led to er to nothing . |
| 17 | ‘ You , that have not been near me all day , and would n't have been if I was dying ! ’ |
| 18 | Equally , we must have realistic expectations of TECs and realise that those that have not been in existence for very long — as is the case with our own TEC , which has been going only since April — will take time to work themselves up to their most effective point . |
| 19 | These are questions that have long been of concern . |
| 20 | Thanks to records above all we are no longer in danger of forgetting such joyous Purcell inspirations as this , pieces that have always been in danger of dropping out of the repertory simply for being ‘ occasional music . ’ |
| 21 | The sarcophagus , they told me , is not one of the Museum 's more interesting possessions , and has n't been on display since 1904 . |
| 22 | There is never a month that I am not overseas , and has n't been for many years — long before I achieved my present position . |
| 23 | A correspondent from the Financial Times reported after a visit to Battambang on Jan. 24 that the city " is not , and has not been under siege " . |
| 24 | The current interest in problem solving arises from the recognition that : • problem solving is a common everyday phenomenon • problem solving can be taught and learned ( and has not been in the past ) • problem-solving skills are applicable in most fields • problem solving can be fun . |
| 25 | The boy was arrested and has since been in care because of ill-feelings in Mrs Fort 's community . |
| 26 | What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years . |
| 27 | She rarely goes out and has never been beyond the street she lives in on her own . |
| 28 | He has n't got a map and has never been to Bayswater before . |
| 29 | Interview with Indian girl of nine who was born here and has never been to India : |
| 30 | He was always unreliable and has never been in touch . |