Example sentences of "they have be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been part of an 8-man patrol , call sign Bravo-2-0 , whose task was to seek and destroy the mobile Scud launchers with which Saddam Hussein was attacking Israel . |
| 2 | It was claimed the birds were related and they 'd been captive bred . |
| 3 | She stood up and walked from the room without so much as a backward glance , and Shae looked down at her hands , surprised to find they were trembling , though they 'd been rock steady just minutes before . |
| 4 | It took something away from everyone , whether they 'd been IP in the past or not . |
| 5 | There was so much to say , and if they 'd been face to face she would have poured it all out , but as it was … |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps they objected to the destruction of Buckingham and the web of deceit to which they 'd been party ? ’ |
| 7 | Would they have been country and gospel-based songs ? |
| 8 | They 've been art celebrities since then and , although the scale of their work has increased — pictures can now include several people , and stretch up to ten metres across — the real subject remains G&G ( as they sometimes describe themselves ) . |
| 9 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 10 | Even when they 've been pureed , I suppose . |
| 11 | I do n't know oh They 've been telly that Tom give us , that give us and then I did n't put on |
| 12 | They 've been sort of so falsely jolly in the past , it sickens me . |
| 13 | But inevitably they 've been sort of thrown in a corner and people have fiddled around with them like I 've fiddled around with this and we find we got what , twenty or thirty of these missing . |
| 14 | There are punching sound effects and speech ( via the internal speaker or sound card ) but the boxers react like a stuffed dummy when they 've been punch . |
| 15 | They 've been ballroom dancing in Cheltenham Town Hall for 50 years now . |
| 16 | The conventional style , gears , whether they 've been power or or manual , as develops erm more of the sort of business on those type applications , yeah , then basically it increases overall share and then it puts pressure on the business that we 've got on the other D group ball bearings . |
| 17 | On the polo field they had been dynamite and almost telepathetic in anticipating each other 's moves . |
| 18 | This demonstration was the first independent action on the part of a teachers ' association ; previously , they had been government controlled . |
| 19 | They had been country people and I was taken off to visit relatives and friends in Shepley and Harewood , sucking mintoes as a treat . |
| 20 | Good d Good does in fact do what you said and his recommendation er for final salary schemes is er a third of the trustees should be or have the right to be er from the , the members and er er we 've in our er comments to you have er looked at a global point of view and said no not are these proposals worthy in themselves , but using a different criteria that if they had been law as Ken said earlier , would they have stopped Maxwell and a situation where a third of the trustees were er were they members er would have made no difference er cos typically in our cases there were originally about four trustees er and unfortunately for us , three of them were named Maxwell . |
| 21 | They used the Latin script , and they had been part of the western world from the time of the Roman Empire . |
| 22 | They did not want to repudiate totally their previous policies , yet had to recognise the disaster of which they had been part . |
| 23 | In this case , space is left unused in the main data area when the file is created , and additions are located on the same cylinder ( IBM ) or seek area ( ICL ) that they would have occupied if they had been part of the file when it was created . |
| 24 | On July 19 three of the original five asylum seekers told Cuban television that they had been part of a plot hatched by diplomats from the US Interests Section and from the Czechoslovak , West German and Canadian embassies , all of whom denied the allegation . |
| 25 | One , seldom more than three feet high and called by Ray the Dwarf Red Rose , had small flowers and rounded buds which before opening appeared ‘ as if they had been clipp 'd with Scissars ’ . |
| 26 | Immediately after the fall of the eastern bloc regimes , even the top nomenklatura professed that they had been closet democrats all along , pushing relentlessly for change from within the structures of power . |
| 27 | They had been Ping Tiao . |
| 28 | They had been father and daughter , and sworn enemies , for a long time now ; they understood each other too well for comfort . |
| 29 | A number of the men absconded during the week , returning again in the evening when they said that they had been Christmas boxing . |
| 30 | If Woonerven had been expensive , there must be doubt as to whether they had been value for money . |