Example sentences of "have been [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Then they would have been here hours ago . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He knows what shots sound like because he hunts , but he still thinks they might have been only firecrackers . |
| 6 | Before 1914 they would have been mainly peasant-workers commuting twice a year to the cities , gentry and their numerous domestic servants moving from their estates to town , kustari with their wares for sale , government servants , and the military , etc . |
| 7 | Ted ought to have been there years ago , he said , and now it 's time for Margaret to be elevated . |
| 8 | So far as she 'd been concerned they had been just friends . |
| 9 | He must have been interviewed during the night of panic following the murder ; in the rational light of dawn he would recognise that his words had been just heroics . |
| 10 | Third Division Bolton had been just seconds from victory before Horne cracked in a superb 35-yard goal to send the tie into extra time , in injury time . |
| 11 | Third Division Bolton had been just seconds from victory before Horne cracked in a superb 35-yard goal to send the tie into extra time , in injury time . |
| 12 | It seemed that she had been here years , and already she had driven a wedge between her and Ben . |
| 13 | Unlike Catholic churches , which had been primarily places of sacrifice , Protestant churches were essentially arenas for the exposition of scripture , and the new auditory style was more appropriate for services dominated by preaching and the reading of the Word . |
| 14 | But the wild ducks carved by Alex Mair had been recognizably ducks , the piquant sauce , new to him , enhanced rather than dominated the taste of the birds , and the small mounds of creamed turnip and parsnip were an agreeable addition to green peas . |
| 15 | It had been literally years once the Shah had drive men in the streets of Teheran . |
| 16 | Since clerics had been essentially servants of the Crown rather than of the Church , the change may not be thought to have made much difference . |
| 17 | And even those captives who 'd got back to Danu , the town I mean , had been merely mice — helpless and squeaking — rolled this way and that as the cat pleased . |
| 18 | Helen who had been there years and years , knew all the ropes , could be relied on to deal tactfully with difficult customers , with the intransigence of the county library system , with errant books and tiresome children . |
| 19 | Whereas prior to his success literate elements in the labouring class had been mainly consumers of literature , now they could take on somewhat more confidently the role of producers in that broader market . |
| 20 | It had been mainly trousers and shirt , and the pyjama bottoms , she remembered . |
| 21 | ‘ I know I 've been here loads of times before , but … ’ |
| 22 | Yeah , they 've been here years . |
| 23 | Every time I go int bank they , just leave them on t' counter , they 've been there weeks and weeks . |
| 24 | they were in , I know they 've been there years |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not probing , you know , Joe , but we 've been together months now , nine of them , in fact , and I know no more about you now than on the day we met , except that you come from the wilds of Northumberland . |
| 26 | Traditionally the visionaries of the Church have been either opponents of Christ , like St Paul or St Eustace , who were converted by their visions , or men and women already leading lives of heroic sanctity , like St Teresa or St Francis . |
| 27 | Breeding sites have been either reservoirs or gravel pits . |
| 28 | Since the Gulf war , the United States and Britain have used the United Nations to bleed Iraq ; and the sufferers have been primarily children , whose death-rate has increased by an estimated 400 per cent . |
| 29 | You 've got rid of the landlords who have been mainly exploiters and so |
| 30 | France 's new government has hinted it will be more willing than its predecessor to accept freer farm trade , along the lines agreed abortively between the EC and America late last year , but so far there have been only hints . |