Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is unsettling , and makes me realise that for those three and a half hours I have been the still and passive object of her intuition as well as her technical skill . |
| 2 | That was the end of the cinematic euphemisms for making love the misty dissolve , the rocketing fireworks or rearing waves which had been the director 's equivalent of the novelist 's three dots … |
| 3 | Her Sacred Majesty , being by nature full of mercy and clemency , who is most inclinable to such pitiful complaints and will not endure to hear such tragedies made of her people and poor subjects , as some about her may insinuate , then she perhaps for very compassion of such calamities will not only stop the stream of such violence and return to her wonted mildness , but also con them little thanks which have been the authors and counsellors of such bloody platforms . |
| 4 | The northern industrial regions , in contrast , were dominated by the older sectors which had been the basis of earlier expansion . |
| 5 | Part of this myth is perpetrated by educationists who have been no nearer a press shop than a picture in a newspaper ; parents also see their offspring in cleaner , more ‘ respectable ’ jobs . |
| 6 | ANTI-RACISM campaigners visited Darlington yesterday to speak to Asian market traders who have been the victims of racist abuse . |
| 7 | ‘ We carefully assess our use of intensive care beds and over the last 12 months we have been a little concerned that , at times , they were full , ’ said Mr Murray . |
| 8 | It seems to me quite certain that , if for four centuries there had been a very widely extended franchise and a very large elected body in this country , there would have been no reformation of religion , no change of dynasty , no toleration of Dissent , not even an accurate Calendar . |
| 9 | The concept of a separation of science from religion during the seventeenth century implies that during preceding centuries there had been a fusion . |
| 10 | been a lot , on cars there 's been a lot of |
| 11 | Among the Paracelsians there had been an emphasis on inner illumination , which could be perceived as a threat to established forms of religion . |
| 12 | His calls in the District 's Annual Report for renewed efforts to encourage students to become members were echoed in the Norfolk Democrat , the magazine of the Norfolk Federation among whose branches there had been a particularly serious loss of membership . |
| 13 | Throughout the nineteenth century in most industrialised nations there had been a growing need for governments to obtain reliable knowledge about the state of their societies . |
| 14 | Smart said : ‘ Over the last few months there have been a number of crimes of minor violence in the central area of the town and the parks . |
| 15 | Over the last eighteen months there have been a number of major changes in your life . |
| 16 | In recent months there has been a lively debate — much of it behind the scenes — into how the hospitality industry can speak more effectively to Government . |
| 17 | In the last year to eighteen months there has been a drop to virtually no enquiries concerning our secured or term loan program ’ . |
| 18 | In the last few months there has been a flood of people seeking membership , and several regional groups have been set up . |
| 19 | In the past two months there has been a rash of newspaper advertisements for unlicensed patches available by mail order . |
| 20 | For centuries it has been a buttress against the onslaught of Chaos from the wastes to the north . |
| 21 | Because invoice discounting does not involve banks of computers and armies of clerks to handle clients ' sales ledgers it has been a low-cost way of getting into this market . |
| 22 | Yet we must be careful before blaming politicians for this mundane campaign , since in many respects it has been a reflection of ourselves . |
| 23 | It is expected that the MMC investigators will be particularly interested in the CAA 's air traffic control operations which have been the centre of a long-running controversy involving aircraft ‘ near misses ’ , poor morale among controllers and equipment break-downs . |
| 24 | Millett basically dismisses the activities which have tended to dominate women 's lives as ‘ infantilising ’ , because they restrict women to the level , she argues , of the merely biological , and do not allow them to enter upon the ‘ fully human ’ activities which have been the province of men . |
| 25 | When this book was first written , for example , no comprehensive study existed of the effects of land reform in eastern Europe after 1918 although many states then embarked upon schemes for the break-up of the great estates which had been the framework of economy and society in the east since the seventeenth century . |
| 26 | A convalescent home was needed , so I got permission to use two houses which had been the homes of senior staff of the Bombay Burma Trading Company . |
| 27 | Sir : The letter from the vice-chancellor of Essex University ( 10 October ) reflects the appalling compliance with government views which has been the policy of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals over the last decade . |
| 28 | But the area office files also carry ‘ white ’ information , in the form of the date and the sum involved in any potential transaction when they have been consulted on behalf of the member ; also the customer 's occupation , and an outline of any transaction actually made with the customer ( though members may not report this to UAPT ; so the note of sums involved in potential transactions which have been the subject of previous inquiries tend to be taken as indications of credit arrangements which have actually been entered in ) |
| 29 | Philippa was ousted by her uncle , William IV 's younger brother , but in the eyes of her descendants she had been the rightful Countess of Toulouse and periodically they went to war to re-assert that claim . |
| 30 | The conservatives who have been the most vocal advocates of alliance with the US and opponents of communist totalitarianism , have been at the same time among the most strident supporters of Japanese rearmament and the revival of ‘ traditional values ’ . |