Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impact has not been in one direction only : the political culture has served to shape political perceptions and actions , and hence to influence the nation 's political history . |
| 2 | At 26 he has already been at eight clubs , and if Howard Wilkinson could n't stop his itchy feet people will ask , what chance have we got ? |
| 3 | There are currently 17 expeditions on Everest — the most there has ever been at one time . |
| 4 | Primarily a religious holiday , it has also been for hundreds of years a secular holiday , often with a travelling showmen 's fair visiting the village at the time . |
| 5 | It was her idea to come here each summer , but she has n't been for three years now . |
| 6 | It has n't been for three years . " |
| 7 | Young ( 1988 ) has , for example , noted that for local and national crime surveys , the response rate ( the proportion of individuals chosen for inclusion in a survey who actually complete a questionnaire ) has never been above 80 per cent . |
| 8 | Also Parker confesses that he has never been to one of Elvis ' recording sessions : ‘ That 's his job — mine 's getting him as much money as I can . ’ |
| 9 | He 'd only been in eighteen months , ’ said the Bishop , in the manner of a man who is used to a longer temporal perspective . |
| 10 | She could n't remember having actually been in one and anyway , they rarely came Past Mrs Parvis 's lodgings . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've only been to two movies in two-and-a-half years , ’ he says . |
| 12 | They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down . |
| 13 | After 1983 , the ‘ frontiers of the state ’ were , in this respect at least , rolled back as they had not been since 1945 . |
| 14 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 15 | Hardwick 's involvement might have ended there , if it had not been for one of the tradesmen , who addressed a petition to the Company nine months later : his original estimate of £2,514 18 1¼d had left him bearing a loss of £266 6 3¾d . |
| 16 | I , I 've not been near one , I would n't know but you have to stand next to them to get an effect , to kn know how big they are . |
| 17 | If you 've ever been to one of their live performances , you will find the band , yourself and the whole of the crowd jumping around like it was a punk reunion . |
| 18 | Martin was for some years tutor to the MacLeods of Skye , and had also been at one time a scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands . |
| 19 | What if it had originally been on one of the other cakes ? |
| 20 | I 've never been in one but I 've read so much about how to do it I 'm sure I could manage it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You know , ’ said he , between great chewings , ‘ I 've never been in one of these places before . |
| 22 | Closer to home , he 's also been to eight European cities since the election . |
| 23 | Well he 's also been on hundreds of committees because they were sort of one of the early ones to be done |
| 24 | I I have n't been on one of our courses for a little while but I think that 's very similar to er |
| 25 | The telephone boxes are all covered with prostitutes ' phone numbers , the street-sweepers probably have n't been since 1968 , and there are left-over hippies in attics playing mad music all the time . |
| 26 | Yes dear I went to erm , er the er holiday camp in October to erm , er with the Red Cross and I went with the , Charlie took me and I went in a car with a friend of mine we went to the Red Cross holiday in Patefield , but it poured of rain every day every day it poured of rain did n't October it was terrible , ever so cold , but we were well looked after you know and I enjoyed it and we had the wheelchairs to go around in on for the dancing , it was really great I thoroughly enjoyed it , I have n't been for two years I had n't , but I went like in October , cos you 're only allowed really every two years to go , that 's all you 're allowed really , but I thoroughly enjoyed it you know , it was nice |
| 27 | Cos I have n't been for two years since I 've been to that one ! |
| 28 | You 're lucky , I have n't been for three days . |
| 29 | I have n't been for three years . |
| 30 | I have n't been to one of the meetings so I ca n't remember who the , but how are all these contained within the budget , all these costs , and have they all been approved and agreed ? |