Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suggestion has been made before now that it was among the Basques that this future rebel against the king of England learnt his what were , for the time , dangerously democratic principles . |
| 2 | NORPLANT was licensed in Britain in May but it 's launch has been delayed until now so that doctors and nurses have had time to be properly trained in patient counselling and implant techniques … |
| 3 | The Bundesbank has been seen until now as Europe 's guardian against rapid price increases . |
| 4 | I shall , of course , establish whether we can use elements of the legislative battery that is available to us in a different way from the way in which it has been used until now . |
| 5 | At first sight this would appear to be a new development , but in reality it reflects a long-term trend which has been masked until now by a series of new acquisitions which have increased total sales each year . |
| 6 | It could also stop the central government from imposing half-baked measures in the guise of reform , which is largely what has been happening until now . |
| 7 | Mair said : ‘ If the answer to that question were known , no doubt the appointment would have been made by now . |
| 8 | I suspect he would have been rewarded by now had a private conversation of his on a car telephone not been picked up and leaked a couple of years ago . |
| 9 | The deal would have been done by now but for Venables 's reservations about playing two penalty-area sniffers together without an orthodox No. 9 to provide an aerial target . |
| 10 | The exercise must be done and should have been done by now . |
| 11 | If he had not been called away it would have been done by now . |
| 12 | They would certainly have been missed by now . |
| 13 | ‘ He 'd have been gone by now , sir , but the little devil 's been playing us up . |
| 14 | Should have been gone by now whe great thanks ever so much there you go . |
| 15 | He 'd have been retired by now on a modest pension leading a life of genteel poverty in Brighton or Torquay . |
| 16 | If there is a difference , ordinary managers should have been sacked by now . |
| 17 | A dispute with Telecom engineers is holding up the company 's first link in London , and Mercury 's first inter-city line — which should have been operating by now — will not open until next year . |
| 18 | It is sad that heparin and aspirin were not invented in the late 1970s ; if they had been , good trials might have been concluded by now ! |
| 19 | All his memoranda had been circulated and should have been digested by now . |
| 20 | He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now . |
| 21 | Yes this colourful expedition requires rather more than the obligatory three points of contact , but it 's well worth seeking out , despite the alarm bells which may well have been triggered by now in the more squeamish reader . |
| 22 | Well — if she had taken kindlier to her a year ago , we might have been wed by now , and I would have escaped the list . ’ |
| 23 | Only a few weeks ago , she would have been stumped by now . |
| 24 | If they were , these waters would have been invaded before now . |
| 25 | Early plums should all have been picked by now , although ‘ Marjorie 's Seedling ’ will be ripe from mid-September . |
| 26 | so erm er or indeed it may be if , if you ask him or if you ask in the general office it may of erm tt it may have it may have been marked by now and so er |
| 27 | If he had gone to anywhere but scum , he would have been off-loaded by now . |
| 28 | Mackenzie had no doubt that the masks and the clothes they wore would have been discarded by now . |
| 29 | ‘ If I know that club , they 'll have been stolen by now . ’ |
| 30 | They ought to have been eliminated by now , or is there a mutation that continues to crop up from time to time ? |