Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the first retailer has only been in business a short time before the second retailer opens his store then it is unlikely that anything can be done . |
| 2 | The few reported cases that have come to autopsy have generally shown bilateral cerebral lesions but the right sided damage has always been in the region of the occipito-temporal junction whereas the lesions on the left have not been uniformly located ( Benson , Segarra and Albert , 1974 ; Meadows , 1974 ; Whiteley and Warrington , 1977 ) . |
| 3 | ESL has been a particularly dynamic area of language teaching and one area of provision has always been for students who wish to continue their general education in this country or to take up training opportunities in MSC-funded schemes . |
| 4 | The strength of this Division has always been in the determination and ability of the people working within it . |
| 5 | The Enterprise Co-ordination Programme has now been in operation for eighteen months and a revised , enhanced budget has been negotiated with the Department of Trade and Industry for the year ahead . |
| 6 | Val Smith , 35 , who worked for the company for 19 years before she was sacked , said : ‘ Closure has always been on the cards . |
| 7 | The ME Polartek Sweater has hardly been off my back for the past month or so . |
| 8 | In consultation with the Department of the Environment and the Scottish Office , which are represented on MOD 's housing task force , my Department has recently been in contact with all local authorities , seeking information on their arrangements for the provision of housing for ex-service personnel . |
| 9 | Crime has always been with us and Halling was no exception and it has been estimated that Kent 's crime rate in the 13th century was higher than any other county , and a statement by Prof. James Given , of Michigan , says that the percentage of murders at 23 per 100,000 in Kent was higher than the U.S.A. average of today . |
| 10 | The ship building industry has also been in decline for a decade or more , and in each year 's report has documented well that decline . |
| 11 | The reviewer has only been in office for eight months but so far has not had cause to uphold a single application for a review . |
| 12 | The other half of his ambition has never been in doubt . |
| 13 | The annual survey system for planning public expenditure over the medium term has now been in use for 30 years . |
| 14 | Philson has also been on trial with Spurs and is interesting Rangers and Manchester United . |
| 15 | Graham Turner 's future has also been to the fore recently but for different reasons . |
| 16 | The updated Accord has only been on sale in Britain for six weeks , but already Honda 's well ahead of its target of three and a half thousand sold by Christmas . |
| 17 | Loneliness and fear and grief had never been like this . |
| 18 | Oh , God , his girlfriend had actually been in the house while he was making love to her . |
| 19 | Middlesbrough were portrayed as extravagant young upstarts ( the club had only been in the Football League since 1899 ) , and Sunderland were reproached for daring to ask for such a sum . |
| 20 | The car had previously been in a collision caused by the negligence of the first defendant . |
| 21 | Both the new leader and the modernisation programme had previously been on the political scene , but at the end of the 1970s they appeared to be in a much stronger position than ever before . |
| 22 | The OEO Agent had obviously been in continuous pain by the end of their long , slow hike , and Bernice was able to boost the feed of chemicals provided by Defries 's combat suit . |
| 23 | His jotting pad was covered with hot-air balloons , intricately patterned and decorated ; part of his mind had obviously been with his private passion . |
| 24 | The Chairman of Orkney Island Council Social Work Committee , Councillor Mairhi Trickett denied that any members of her department had ever been to any courses or seminars on the subject of ritual or satanic abuse . |
| 25 | Little Gino , whose ambition had always been to be taller than four foot ten , had got a little too interested when it was his turn and even in the candlelight we could all see that he 'd deliberately got his charm bracelet tangled in one of Sorrel 's suspenders . |
| 26 | And anyway , why would the Cathedral jackdaws suddenly break the habit of centuries and come to the south side when their haunt had always been on the north ? |
| 27 | I 've got first hand experience of this , since the unit Epson provided for review had obviously been in use elsewhere before it got to me , and there was toner flying free from the part-used cartridge . |
| 28 | Dr Laternser immediately rose to protest that the witness had never been in the German army and therefore could not properly be asked or answer any such questions . |
| 29 | US hardcore has always been about self-squandering and auto-mutilation . |
| 30 | Subsequent Acts have tended to produce more detailed requirements , but the main thrust has always been for nationalized industries ' accounts to produce , as a minimum , the amount and kind of information that a PLC has to produce . |