Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they have be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can ask them for a sick note from their doctor , but only if they have been away for more than seven days . |
| 2 | The majority of candidates who fail do so because they have been so nervous that they have not been able to think clearly , far less to perform well . |
| 3 | While the agreement between the IDA and the Ringaskiddy residents over interim storage seemed to settle the dumping issue , the residents had accepted the agreement only after they had been physically attacked by the forces of the state , and the resources and energy of the community had been exhausted . |
| 4 | If sophisticated strategies such as nominalization have not so far been recognized as viable options in resolving the tension between syntax and communicative function , this does not imply that they are not viable — just that they have been largely overlooked . |
| 5 | Well I tell you why I have n't been buying currants lately cos they 've been so blooming expensive ! |
| 6 | A small proportion of people develop a headache after lumbar puncture but this is usually because they have been too active too soon after the test . |
| 7 | In the three Baltic republics and in Georgia it had been decided that to participate would be to acknowledge Soviet constitutional legitimacy , thereby forfeiting the key argument in their independence campaigns , namely that they had been illegally occupied and annexed to the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although justices had an overriding duty to investigate the proposals advanced by the parties notwithstanding that they had been fully agreed , the profundity of that investigation should reflect the reality that there was consensus between the parties , particularly when one party was a local authority with statutory duties and another the child 's guardian ad litem , and any period during which justices reserved their decision or reasoned judgment should be kept to a minimum ; that if justices , having fulfilled their duty to make an independent investigation of terms proposed by consent , came to the conclusion that other terms should be imposed on the parties , they should indicate the terms they were minded to impose and give the parties an opportunity to make submissions on them ; and that , in all the circumstances , the order should be varied to provide that there would be no contact with the father on the basis that the local authority would continue to perform its statutory duty to review each six months and that the half-sister would be afforded reasonable contact ( post , pp. 277B–F , 278C–D ) . |
| 9 | But it is important to state that although in recent years in Britain , there have been many service innovations whose aim has been to improve the home or community care of elderly mentally frail people ( see for example Age Concern England , l983 ) , unfortunately most of these schemes have either not been systematically evaluated ( often because they have been very small in scale ) , or — if they have — results have not been widely disseminated . |
| 10 | If the first were correct , surely a house full of children and servants would have heard poor William 's pleas and , even if they had been too frightened of his mother 's retribution to release him , surely they would have passed him food . |
| 11 | Thus , purchases by the Board would have done nothing to facilitate an increase in the total supply of land for development even if they had been much more numerous . |
| 12 | Even if they 'd been half full it would have been our only escape route . ’ |
| 13 | So are the other countries which support it , even if they have been less keen to play soldiers . |
| 14 | Bureaux in the main are not purpose-built and even if they have been especially partitioned for the purpose-built and even if usually enough total space to consider the ergonomics of advice work . |
| 15 | I mentioned in in my first contribution this morning a a concern about that those considerations that environmental considerations , even if they have been fully considered er are not there 's not an explanation provided anywhere in in the structure plan supporting material as to how that 's actually been achieved . |
| 16 | The most difficult part of getting out a galvanised hot water tank is likely to be disconnecting the pipes leading to and from the boiler particularly if they have been there for some time . |
| 17 | A system like this could be very efficient , since it could identify words even before they have been completely spoken . |
| 18 | She was sitting on the opposite side of the grate and Louise Carter thought fleetingly how proud Nora had always been of her daughter even when they had been dramatically at loggerheads and how pleased she would be if she could see her now , in her elegant black dress and silver jewellery . |
| 19 | This is demonstrated most clearly in the lengths to which the courts have been excluded from the process , even though they have been only rarely a threat to the Thatcher Government . |
| 20 | That uncertainty , acknowledged by Watkins L.J. , should , it is submitted , have provided a powerful reason for the Court of Appeal to allow the applicant to have a judgment by the court on the unresolved points , particularly as they had been previously argued before but had been unanswered by the court . |
| 21 | Any hollows or unevenness indicate either that they have been badly laid or have been affected by subsidence . |
| 22 | The character must make a Cl test or else be forced by nausea to strip off his armour and clothes , unable to put them on again until they have been thoroughly cleaned and washed . |
| 23 | Yet when they have been properly set up , they can give splendid results . |
| 24 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |