Example sentences of "they have been [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 2 | We opened our Amsterdam , our new exhibition in Amsterdam in June and er , up to now audiences have flocked there many weeks they 've been thirty percent ahead of er ahead of budget . |
| 3 | Are they , are they have they , are they stupid , have they gone totally mad and they 're obstructing this thing for ever and ever and ever just for the sake of obstructing and you have t to listen to what they say on on this , the argument that we 're having here and have had here and the argument that we 've had about old people 's homes , they 've been two running sores in this authority and hopefully today in both of them we 'll be making progress and I think I 'd like to . |
| 4 | I know but what all going on is the history , that fact is since the mid-fifties we , we have had dealings cos they 've been one of the stronger of the world |
| 5 | They 've been I putting the money into the tube and forgetting the dockets . |
| 6 | They had been two small , quiet people ; he 'd been , at twenty-nine , a gentle kind of man . |
| 7 | Jesus , it was one island , that was true , but the terrain made the halves more remote from each other than if they had been two islands separated by a sea channel : you could n't skip across our jungles and mountains in an outrigger . |
| 8 | For the most part they had been one of Europe 's invisible , historyless , subject peoples . |
| 9 | In 1973 Esquire magazine asked a number of famous people where they had been ten years earlier when they heard that John Kennedy was assassinated . |
| 10 | From 1859 caves became exciting to geologists , as they had been forty years earlier when Buckland looked for evidence of the Deluge . |
| 11 | Weekly earnings in 1812 were only 16 per cent above their 1793 level , although they had been 25 per cent higher in 1808 . |
| 12 | As we shall see later , they have been one of the factors that have helped to tip the economic balance firmly against the nuclear option . |
| 13 | Quantitatively , they are by no means negligible : the 1982 census indicated some 402,000 people originated from the departements and territoires d'outre-mer ( of whom two-thirds were from the Caribbean ) and they have been one of the fastest-growing migrant groups , escaping the immigration controls on foreign nationals imposed during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 14 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |
| 15 | One of them 's been two or three times , this was , I think this was her fourth time , so she went away to F Florida , away over to the Gulf of Mexico . |