Example sentences of "have be [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although various theories have been proposed , there are two about which there has been most argument . |
| 2 | It is worth noting that in the period of sterling 's membership of the ERM the cumulative decrease in GDP has been approximately 4% , while UK wages have increased by 6% , a gap not substantially reduced by productivity growth . |
| 3 | ABOVE : This interesting building at Holcombe Mill was formerly the wool drying stove and since then , has been both cottage and shop . |
| 4 | The convention has been largely moribund since the general election , but Labour is insistent that it is the only cross-party forum in which it will take part . |
| 5 | And that the business has been predominantly the nature of business has been predominantly manufacturing . |
| 6 | In our own time it has been only fascists , racists and their ilk who ha–e felt the urge to slaughter vast numbers of people whom they have regarded as different from themselves . |
| 7 | There has been more DOE resistance to peripheral development in relation to planning appeals than might have been anticipated given the nature of the Secretary of State 's response to the Structure Plan . |
| 8 | As a result of this , upward mobility in the OTC market has been adversely affected . |
| 9 | ICI 's HC depreciation has been about 90% of reported HC profit after tax ; and with an average plant life of 15 years , the CPP amount is 100% higher . |
| 10 | The cost of the work to date has been about £150 million . |
| 11 | It is estimated that there has been about 1000km of lateral movement along the fault system over the past 25 Ma . |
| 12 | Italy has also provided extensive coverage , while in New Zealand there has been almost saturation screening of races , no doubt fuelled by the hope that , although the All Blacks and their cricket team failed to win their respective World Cups , New Zealand sailors can go all the way and clinch the oldest international sporting trophy in the world . |
| 13 | This has been lovingly hand typed straight from this seasons first issue of The Square Ball … all typos are mine ! ! |
| 14 | Although if I remember , Commander , your muse in recent years has been somewhat fugitive . ’ |
| 15 | The discussion of space thus far has been somewhat backside foremost . |
| 16 | Taking pity on them because , despite her irritation with their constant preoccupation with her affairs , she knew it was n't meant maliciously , and they 'd been enormously kind after Ryan 's defection , she walked back to the counter . |
| 17 | Very little apart from his outward appearance , and when he had n't been teasing her he 'd been carelessly kind to her when they met . |
| 18 | And looking back on it , when you think about his own experience — he 'd been Home Secretary , Chancellor of the Exchequer and Foreign Secretary — I think most of his Cabinet colleagues who served under him would say he was a better prime minister than he was a secretary of state in either of these three roles . |
| 19 | But then that funny copper , Malpass , had known I 'd been out front on Sunday . |
| 20 | They 'd been unbelievably kind to her , not that it was any of his business — he was n't one of the villagers , just a visitor . |
| 21 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 22 | The steady degradation of the Romanian standard of living to meet the burden of rapid debt repayment in the 1980s and the decision to remodel rural life according to a model abandoned by then even in the Soviet Union and China may have been primarily Nicolae Ceauşescu 's work . |
| 23 | " I do n't reckon you 'd 'ave to , my dear soul , " observed another old woman , who must have been well past seventy . |
| 24 | The consequences of successive devaluations of the ‘ green ’ pound were also referred to by Mr Ramsay , who said ‘ With the compensation calculated at 80p per ecu as it was last September a high-yielding arable farm of 1,000 acres would have been over £48,000 worse off between 1993 and 1995 but now , with the rate at 98p per ecu that same farm 's cross margin will drop by just under £2,000 . |
| 25 | the vice president or someone , so in other words says , I 'm , I 'm sorry we ca n't , it would , would have been tomorrow morning . |
| 26 | ‘ Then they would have been here hours ago . |
| 27 | I could hear vague noises for a bit , but even straining I could n't make out what they were , and they could have been just noises on the line . |
| 28 | No it must have been just coincidence . |
| 29 | I believe my friend is shaking her head yes , so we must have been also part of the route . |
| 30 | It may have been largely thanks to Lewis that Williams became something of a cult figure , idolized by pious lady dons , aspirant mystics and others . |