Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] has be in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To forecast where the economy is heading , economists need information on where it is now , and where it has been in the recent past . |
| 2 | The NPC ended its annual session yesterday by passing all laws and reports put before it , but dissent was far greater than it has been in the years following the 1989 crackdown in Peking , which Li played a leading role in . |
| 3 | ‘ Piss ’ is one of several four-letter words less acceptable today than it has been in the past . |
| 4 | Child support will therefore not necessarily be any more reliable or regular in the future than it has been in the past . |
| 5 | It is likely that under those agreements extradition within Europe would in future be easier than it has been in the past , which I think the hon. Gentleman would welcome . |
| 6 | An international panel of climate experts , chaired by Dr John Houghton , director of the Meteorological Office , have warned that global temperatures will rise by 0.3C each decade , making the planet warmer than it has been in the past 10,000 years . |
| 7 | ‘ It seems to me that everyone thinks he 's ill merely because he is less rude and rather more bearable than he has been in the past , ’ the head said irritably . |
| 8 | President Nyerere of Tanzania ( as we shall see in greater detail later ) has taken the view that , in a country faced with problems of poverty , ignorance , disease and underdevelopment on a gigantic scale , press freedom should be limited just as it has been in the liberal democracies in wartime . |
| 9 | It seems that it is of continuing importance for women to be able to call upon relatives to assist them with child care , and that this still is a key element in women 's organization of their daily lives , as it has been in the past ( see for example Roberts , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 11 | In other words not to provide for a continuing level of migration as it has been in the past . |
| 12 | Yes , the going will be slow tonight but erm not as slow as it has been in the past erm so it should be good . |