Example sentences of "have be [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government and , to a lesser extent , the Labour opposition , have been at sixes and sevens over interpretation and legality for months . |
| 2 | Readers who have been to one of my knit-club talks , will remember the prototype shown there which I referred to as the ‘ Knit-club Jumper ’ , because of the ease of making the basic jumper look different at each club meeting , just by changing the collar ! |
| 3 | ‘ I am thinking that maybe these gentlemen have been to one English Wine Shop , ’ said Dr Haidar , speaking in that slightly sanctimonious tone that Muslims sometimes adopt when discussing alcohol . |
| 4 | Furthermore , people vary in their tolerance from day to day , and it is not safe to assume that because you have been to 15,000 feet or so without oxygen before , you will be able to do it again . |
| 5 | After all , the Elphbergs are the royal family of Ruritania , and have been for hundreds of years . |
| 6 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 7 | The pre-recorded elements of his programmes for BBC Radio Kent are compiled in a home recording studio come darkroom , as they have been since 1975 . |
| 8 | Another innovation is the stream of Jewish tourists visiting Israel from Russia : 25,000 have been since 1988 , and the Jewish Agency sees this is a uniquely helpful way to win hearts and minds . |
| 9 | Election expenses are limited by statute and have been since 1883 . |
| 10 | Attempts to test the state subsidy theory of strikes have been of two kinds : studies attempting to show the correlation , if any , between levels of benefits and strike activity over the years ; and studies exploring the views of strikers in relation to benefits and strike activity . |
| 11 | Liverpool have been without five of the powerful line-up Mr Souness selected for the first match against Portsmouth in the intervening League games . |
| 12 | Leeds have been up three days ago . |
| 13 | The pair , both 25 , have been through two days of hell — and team-mates fear the nightmare may have damaged their medal chances . |
| 14 | When , therefore , on 9 December 1949 , an amendment to the Military Aid Program bill proposed by the combined Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Armed Services sought to earmark the sum of $75 m. for what was eventually described as the ‘ general area of China ’ , in voting to cut the appropriation for the Military Assistance Program in half the House of Representatives may , as Acheson said , have been in one of its berserk moods ; but in order to save the Program , and its underpinning of the fledgling North Atlantic Alliance , Acheson was prepared to accept the amendment and , as he presents it , it seems to have been one of the easiest passages in that summer of difficult decisions . |
| 15 | There is no use in telling a customer wanting to go to San Marino ( as I have been in three central London agencies ) that it does n't exist , that he really means San Remo . |
| 16 | Is the Prime Minister aware that building employers say that conditions are worse than they have been in 40 years , that car sales are down 20 per cent . |
| 17 | Here they have seen her because they have been within thirty feet of her . |
| 18 | It must , she thought sipping her tea , have been after one o'clock when he returned from seeing Hilary Robarts home . |
| 19 | Er the the room , the smallest room they have is for twenty five to thirty people |