Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former senior minister who has been through many spending rounds says we take them all much too seriously , they are merely a mating ritual , he says , adding , and a barren one at that , no offspring . |
| 2 | ‘ The North has been through some hard times , and things are changing . |
| 3 | Nor can there be any claim that the laws-of-war approach has been at all decisive anywhere in illuminating the issue of the legality or otherwise of possession of such weapons . |
| 4 | Over three-quarters of credit users reckon that its cost has been reasonable ( see Appendix I , Table 24 ) , and less than one in ten say it has been at all unreasonable . |
| 5 | To refer once again to the unpredicted and possibly counter-productive side effects of the legal reform movement , the effect on the ‘ rules ’ question has been at most unfortunate in the eyes of many basic grade staff . |
| 6 | More pointedly , such analyses are concerned with measuring the effects of wage movements ; the causes have to be sought in the actual , real-world process of industrial relations — an environment as uncongenial to economists as it has been to many industrial managers . |
| 7 | Erm the certification of the flight control system is the critical path item and has been for some considerable time . |
| 8 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 9 | This personal excursion has been around some favourite isolated hills — there are many others — a few which have given some of my best mountain days . |
| 10 | Named after the mansion in Wuthering Heights , this is a desolate agricultural commune run by Jimmy Ahmed , back from London , where he has been in some vague way a celebrity . |
| 11 | And , they were often not released until they 'd been at this casual ward for two days . |
| 12 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 13 | Sad though that may have been for that particular patient , there was a positive side , the cancer never reappeared . |
| 14 | He started to give her expert directions and it was plain that he must have been to this particular establishment before . |
| 15 | It might well be that upon their selection the Roman Catholics were appraised of the atmosphere in England and advised not to be too obvious in their worship , galling though that would have been to those proud and independent men . |
| 16 | If the bands are reshuffled , the trials will have been of little practical value . |
| 17 | There was no one else in the hotel who could have been of any possible interest to the assassins . ’ |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it seems highly improbable that had it been pursued the ‘ revolutionary ’ alternative , deprived as it would have been of any significant outside help , would have proved any more successful . |
| 19 | She would n't have been at all surprised if she were . |
| 20 | ‘ Hello ? ’ she enquired , and would n't have been at all surprised , the way her head was , had it been Reception ringing to say that she had n't filled in her reservation form correctly . |
| 21 | Wallace came on shortly before time and showed what could have been with some fast ground-oriented attacking . |
| 22 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 23 | Oh , very very big , he explained and stepped away from the end of the table to indicate with his hand where the tail would have been on this particular specimen . |
| 24 | Bernard , harder on his own son than he might have been on any other twenty-three-year-old in the company was not keen , telling him he had no business experience . |
| 25 | England 's eighteenth-century manufacturing growth may not have been in any full sense " export led " , but foreign trade did nevertheless have a significant and dynamic role . |
| 26 | Back home she 'd have been in some nice comfortable clinic . |
| 27 | It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years . |
| 28 | I sent money and a small gift for Harry : ‘ if you can speak to him , that is — he will have been in enough hot water already on my account … ’ |
| 29 | This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ? |
| 30 | HAVING been among those fortunate enough to be in Australia for the World Cup — and most enjoyable it was — there was one aspect of the television coverage which was extremely irritating . |