Example sentences of "they have [adv] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , that they 've either got to , well they 've preferably got to be bought rather than , just |
| 2 | To tell you the truth Brenda , I 'm very sorry for her because I think that she and Ned have made a really a quite ferocious mess of their life , they 've never intended to be slaving away to be doing kitchen fitting , he wanted to do wood sculpture that was he 's idea in |
| 3 | ‘ They 've obviously got to be able to speak to people at all levels , ’ said a supervisor of his field men . |
| 4 | So they 've actually got to be making something that 's that can be sold or can be sold in the near future if they . |
| 5 | Okay , definition of disability , what they 've actually got to be , to be able to claim is unable to perform any part of their normal occupation . |
| 6 | I pointed out that Sara , Greg and Barney were all in the same position : they had n't chosen to be born to us . |
| 7 | By the early Georgian period , they had also started to be used with tea and coffee cups , as these refreshments had become both fashionable and popular . |
| 8 | Nevertheless five men , who had been imprisoned because they deliberately and flagrantly disobeyed the orders of the NIRC , and so imperilled the rule of law and ‘ our whole way of life ’ , were released although they had not asked to be released and had made clear that they had no intention of apologizing to the court for their behaviour or of desisting from that behaviour . |
| 9 | The newswire quotes industry executives saying that the trio plan to announce by the end of the month that they have produced a working sample of the chip , which they had not expected to be ready until early next year . |
| 10 | They had all appeared to be like men when they were sixteen , especially Mick . |
| 11 | His smiles , his glances , his gentle intimacies … somehow they had all seemed to be pointing in that direction . |
| 12 | They have secretly wished to be lovers for years but the consummation of their affair is a recent event . |
| 13 | When lines of poetry spring spontaneously to the mind of a lawyer , I thought , they have surely ceased to be true . |
| 14 | Second , they argue that because human intervention is involved in the production of transgenic plants or animals , they have somehow ceased to be biological and thus patentable . |
| 15 | Not only is the method not scientific but , to the extent that Marx did make certain historical prophecies which can be related to empirical evidence over long periods of time , these can be examined and by and large they have not proved to be valid . |