Example sentences of "have [adv] be [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've thrown in lots of youngsters but really the players ’ budget has basically been the same for five years , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Arsenal boss George Graham feels he has not been the same player since he co-starred for England against Turkey . |
| 3 | The World Cup has not been the same without them . |
| 4 | So there has not been the same emphasis on ease of use . |
| 5 | I have sat on the opposite bank of a river to where a match was being fished and seen barbel breaking line time after time , and the reaction has always been the same : the tying on of a hook of the same size to the same line that barbel had already treated with the contempt it deserved . |
| 6 | ‘ I mean , this place has always been the same . |
| 7 | In the past there has often been no such requirement for apportioning expenditure to individual establishments , only a requirement to identify expenditure to generic or ‘ main code ’ headings such as primary , secondary or further education , with a number of sub-headings such as staffing , premises , supplies and services . |
| 8 | But what I 'm wearing now I 'll be wearing in a year or eighteen months , it does n't chop and change like a fashion ; the meaning it has now is the same one it will have in eighteen months ' time . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I do n't know why but he has n't been the same player since coming back from Wembley . ’ |
| 10 | Mavis has done her best , but it has n't been the same . ’ |
| 11 | well we used to come in here before went and that has n't been the same at night cos it got a bit so he 'd say excuse me , love there 's ladies present here ca n't have that . |
| 12 | Hillary was catapulted to stardom and his life has never been the same since . |
| 13 | People say he has never been the same since . |
| 14 | If they 'd only been a few inches longer ; or perhaps if his upper body was n't so big then his legs would n't be so noticeable . |
| 15 | It was useless to start calling her irresponsible brother a few names — he 'd always been the same , and she 'd known that , love him though she did , when they had moved to London . |
| 16 | There had only been a few sharp yelps of pain . |
| 17 | But Derek Law , deputy director of the SSD , said there had only been a few teething problems . |
| 18 | Even in the early 1960s there had only been a few brave individuals . |
| 19 | His uncle had not been the same since Emily died . |
| 20 | He suggested the striker was lacking in desire , suggesting he had gone missing during the game against United , and saying he had not been the same since playing for England against Turkey a fortnight ago . |
| 21 | Dad was different ; he had not been the same since that night Alice was out and she had gone downstairs and watched him working on his book . |
| 22 | I know it 's him , this man — what was his name ? — Luke Denner , that 's got you so worked up ; you 've not been the same since those few days in the country and that plan of his has been sitting on your desk untouched for days on end . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've always been the same , Lili , ’ said Robert . |
| 24 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 25 | The overwhelming reason had always been the same one . |
| 26 | It had always been the same , ever since she was a little girl . |
| 27 | In fact , the entire evening , spent flirting and dancing with her , had probably been no more than a cynical exercise in keeping his mind off someone else . |
| 28 | I 've never been the same since he told me how he hated fey women . |
| 29 | Yeah , I 've never been the same since I was there you know |
| 30 | Todger had never been the same since they got to Hambury . |