Example sentences of "[subord] [noun sg] have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although reveille had been at 0400 hours , the landing would not be made until first light at 0850 . |
| 2 | The idea that an industry could leave behind a polluting aftermath for longer than civilization has been in existence has made the waste issue one of the strongest strands in the antinuclear case . |
| 3 | They thoroughly deserved a draw last night and , if luck had been on their side , they might even have won the game . |
| 4 | The monks ' cells , just visible through the windows of the women 's dormitories , lay 500 yards away , far enough for them to have required a telescope and searchlights if disturbance had been on their minds . |
| 5 | This , in itself , need not have posed much of a challenge to the conventional wisdom : if unemployment had been at unusually low levels at the time , the acceleration of inflation could have been explained in terms of the simple Phillips curve and contractionary demand management policies could have been implemented . |
| 6 | But whereas Futurism had been to a large extent aimed at and against Paris and Parisian painting , the Germans were content to remain on the receiving end of things and their work , in the pre-war years at least , had little or no influence back on French art . |
| 7 | The main developments since interactionism have been in phenomenological , Marxist and feminist sociology . |
| 8 | Architectural influence here is not notable since timber has been for centuries the traditional building material . |
| 9 | Archaeologists and historians studying the period since writing has been in use — the last few thousand years — examine different types of evidence , although they overlap at many points . |
| 10 | Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule . |
| 11 | Nizan was convinced that the novel in the contemporary period was as significant a genre as tragedy had been in the classical period . " |