Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [subord] [pron] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the lessons learned were , how to manage projects better than we 'd been managing projects before . |
| 2 | And we 've not had I I must say that over the years I might have had two cases perhaps when there 's been a query with regard to that in terms of packing . |
| 3 | Such a technique can be a useful way of bringing two or more parties together when there have been serious misunderstandings which have led to conflict . |
| 4 | It has been almost three months now since I have been home here in England after spending three weeks holiday in France with my friend Rachel and her family . |
| 5 | A system like this could be very efficient , since it could identify words even before they have been completely spoken . |
| 6 | Yet all was glitter in this room , as it had been glitter two months ago when she had been so happy . |
| 7 | Reports from Zimbabwe suggest that poachers are killing black rhinos even though they have been dehorned by the authorities to make them unattractive to hunters . |
| 8 | It was good to be able to demonstrate that I did know something about handling animals even though I had been qualified for only a few months . |
| 9 | You 've got all red eyes there where you 've been crying . |
| 10 | His back was lacerated , the tips of his ears bloody where they had been cropped whilst a fool 's cap , fastened to his head , listed his lies and deceptions . |
| 11 | " Spain has managed to maintain those areas much as they have been since the Middle Ages , because industrial development here has been much slower than in other European nations . |
| 12 | Fierce local loyalties and rivalries were the life-blood of the amateur football leagues just as they had been in parish recreations a century before , and this carried over into commercial spectator sport , which offered a new kind of community life and identity . |
| 13 | In 1966 the Beatles had given up touring , a practice that had consumed their lives ever since they 'd been catapulted into celebrity in 1963 . |
| 14 | I thoroughly agree that hospital trusts are proving their worth , but the national health service in Northern Ireland is succeeding with trusts even before they have been established . |
| 15 | It was hours now since we had last eaten , hours more since there had been any sleep . |
| 16 | He had told her about the cannabis bed a few days ago when they had been walking in the garden and her eyes had widened in shock . |
| 17 | Then he said : ‘ If the letters ca n't be recovered , your brother 's defence collapses even before it 's been assembled , does n't it ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ People do n't feel ashamed these days even when they have been caught out , ’ he suggests in a tone of disbelief . |
| 19 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 20 | The first was some eight years ago when he 'd been accused of shoddy workmanship on a car which had been involved in a crash two days after he 'd MOTed it . |
| 21 | That incident so many years ago when she had been punished for the supposed loss of the ring was etched indelibly in her mind . |
| 22 | He had had a spell about two years previously when he had been in a wheel-chair for a few weeks , but had managed to get himself out of it and stagger around with two tripods . |
| 23 | We shall of course consider the Library 's proposals carefully when they 've been finalised . |
| 24 | Previously you were entitled to these rights only if you had been in an employer 's scheme for at least five years . |
| 25 | Side cutters are useful for cutting both cable and flex to length , and for trimming cores neatly when they have been connected to terminals . |
| 26 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 27 | After a year , the homoeopathically treated group was substantially better than the aspirin group , with two thirds of the patients better than they had been at the start of the trial , while none of the patients on aspirin had improved and most of them had dropped out , either because of unacceptable side-effects , or because the treatment was ineffective . |
| 28 | Well I tell you why I have n't been buying currants lately cos they 've been so blooming expensive ! |
| 29 | My friend wanted to encourage them to come back , so we put the bales back where they had been and cut a suitable owl-sized hole in the wall . |
| 30 | It is this ability to regenerate that reduces many a garden enthusiast to tears when new flushes of dodder appear , as if from nowhere , on favourite hedges even after they have been pruned bare to get rid of it . |