Example sentences of "have [adv] been [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Basilica Constaninina , now the Cathedral of Rome , S. Giovanni in Laterano , has since been many times altered and added |
| 2 | There had long been some specialists , like vine-dressers or fishermen or cowherds or shepherds , who were producing food , but depended on others for their staple diet . |
| 3 | He also wanted to emphasize in the appraisal two issues he had already brought to the attention of staff : assessment of pupils — with which there had already been some changes — and language across the curriculum , which he felt required a more positive policy . |
| 4 | There 've already been several tailbacks — the longest stretched for 8 miles . |
| 5 | They sat on the soft sand above the tide line while Adam ate ; there had always been fewer stones here , on this remote end of the beach where hardly anyone came . |
| 6 | The Preface further explains that there had recently been many books published by amateurs , ‘ mere plagiarists , , who had confused names and caused trouble , not only to customers , but also to the growers . |
| 7 | Until early this century when American mink Mustela vison first began to escape from fur farms , there had never been such animals in the British Isles , not even the European mink M. lutreola , and our countryside had not experienced such a versatile and opportunistic predator before . |
| 8 | There had never been enough personnel to form anything as large as a squadron . |
| 9 | He came , towards the end of the nineties , to believe that there are erm there must be things which are in the strictest possible sense non-mental , and which would be what they were , even if there had never been any minds that were conscious of them . |
| 10 | There have since been many battles at this strategic crossing place , but this was the first , the greatest and the most hard fought . |
| 11 | There have already been some improvements in organisation in the forces which battle drugs and terrorism , two areas of crime which recognise no geographical boundaries . |
| 12 | Once again if these changes continue to develop in the UK , the classification and definition of what constitutes a rural area will have to be radically altered , although there have already been some changes , as the next section demonstrates . |
| 13 | Although still in its infancy , there have already been several approaches to case-mix accounting . |
| 14 | We have always been such witnesses and such representatives . ’ |
| 15 | Historically we can establish that there have always been these waves of hooliganism in particular form . |
| 16 | The welfare state in Britain has always been pluralistic in that there have always been several sources of welfare provision . |
| 17 | There have always been some students in serious difficulties . |
| 18 | I accept that there have always been some problems , but if one keeps filling the pot with water it will overflow . |
| 19 | There is no doubt tremendous strides have been made in certain sections of the North 's economy but that progress has been partial and there have also been many setbacks . |
| 20 | There have also been some reports of ‘ disappearances ’ following arrests by the military or police since July 1990 . |
| 21 | While research on the agronomic side of conservation has taken considerable strides during the past fifteen years for all its problems of misapplication , there have also been some advances in the thinking on the socio-economic side of soil erosion and the resulting design of conservation programmes as well . |
| 22 | There have also been several innovations in the design of styling wands and hot brushes . |
| 23 | There have also been several periods of panic buying triggered by rumours of taxation or currency reforms . |
| 24 | There have also been several representations from those sitting on my left hand side , about the possible answers to question one D in the affirmative . |
| 25 | There have now been several reports that have pointed to the fact that even in industries where there is a commitment to high safety standards , there is evidence that something is going wrong in the implementation and organisation . |
| 26 | Have there been many changes in church and chapel attendance since then do you think ? |
| 27 | Have there been many cases on the flats or has this been a |
| 28 | Have there been any difficulties in the interpretation and application of that policy in relation to the scale of what is really there on the ground ? |
| 29 | Whether the costs savings are very considerable is hard to say but there have undoubtedly been some sayings ; what is clear , however , is that costs have been whittled down and that this has had a widespread effect on the production of newspapers in Britain . |
| 30 | As there is no access to the shore there have never been any businesses based on the sea . |