Example sentences of "[noun sg] [ex0] have been " in BNC.
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| 31 | During the winter there had been near-continual snow and rain , then in late March there was a week of mad blustering winds , with racing cloud and fitful sun . |
| 32 | Although during the winter there had been no running water this had been restored at least in the centre of the town . |
| 33 | Several hours before the escape there had been a drinking session at the prison , paid for by Bibit , involving inmates , guards and female visitors . |
| 34 | The nature of the court 's work There had been a tendency largely to disregard applications as being incidental to the main task of deciding appeals and as not significant in themselves . |
| 35 | Despite much improvement in pencil and art work there had been none in reading and other school work . |
| 36 | During the session there had been some debate over the selection of the ministers of finance and foreign affairs . |
| 37 | David had heard of the Wilikinses ' divorce there had been quite a lot about the circumstances surrounding it in the Birmingham Mail — and he had been told of a second , short-lived marriage . |
| 38 | In my village there had been historic upheaval over such questions as whether it was right that hymns should be sung in the House of God . |
| 39 | Prior to the 1966 Act there had been a duty imposed on the National Assistance Board to give assistance to those in need by the payment of national assistance , but no corresponding right for individuals to receive assistance . |
| 40 | Every time this matter 's been before either committee or council there has been a majority in favour of the merger principles . |
| 41 | What little peace there had been was quite cut up . |
| 42 | In the same vein there has been a long-standing tendency to equate rationality with logic , and logic with mathematics . |
| 43 | During the lifetime of the Guild there have been : 5 bishops , 4 spiritual directors , 3 secretary/treasurers . |
| 44 | I should make it absolutely clear that since deregulation there has been a very considerable increase in mileage served by buses both north and south of the border . |
| 45 | from the back bedroom in the bottom there 's been a hole about the size of a pipe |
| 46 | ‘ There is to be a redistribution of training places because the number of unemployed in this constituency has gone down since 1987 while in the south there has been an increase . |
| 47 | ‘ There is to be a redistribution of training places because the number of unemployed in this constituency has gone down since 1987 while in the south there has been an increase . |
| 48 | On the Lantonment and river sides of the banqueting hall there had been no firing of chain shot to clear the jungle : this was partly to save powder , partly because the banqueting hall was , anyway , higher than the surrounding land and thus more difficult to surprise ; there were also natural clearings to be seen here and there where the ground was too stony for a thick growth . |
| 49 | Whether strictly order twenty eight , er order sixty , rule twenty eight for erm applies in this case is not amount entirely clear to me because the obligation to lodge a bill of taxation under rule twenty nine provides that he must begin proceedings for the taxation either within three months after the judgement direction or order of the terminations enter sides are otherwise perfected , and that is presently on it 's face which seemed to be debited May of nineteen ninety three and er accordingly that is right , it 's not in fact been any failure to comply with order tw order sixty two , rule twenty nine , one , and that has n't been disregarded , it 's not entirely clear to me that erm there is any matter come from paragraph sub paragraph A of rule twenty eight , four , it may already require , still nevertheless erm fall within paragraph B of rule fo , erm there has in fact been a delay in lodging the bill of costs for taxation , the delay being really and truly , the delay in having the order of Mr Justice perfected and it seems to me that although in chasing matters generally speaking it is the court will itself draw the order , nevertheless where er it seems to be clearly in this case would contemplate it that counsel would sign a minute erm that counsel do sign a minute and that minute has been signed having forwarded by the defendants solicitors to the defendants solicitors seems to me it must be the case that erm the obligation to , as it were , forward that minute to the court , it is an obligation which would lie upon the plaintiffs solicitors and it maybe said that erm there has been delay and erm on the best it should be lodged with the court sealed , er shortly after it was received and that therefore on that footing there has been delay lodging the bill of costs for concession , er Mr , doctor does n't seemed to be take any point in relation to that er because it 's not in his interest to do so , it seems to be that he does have to say if it has been delayed , with an order of twenty eight rule four that 's a rule , rule , rule twenty eight er four if he is to have interest disbarred and er Mr er he 'll apparently have the matter of read before the taxing master , it seems that the taxing master did not chew any sympathy with that er suggestion , that er there was in fact no breach of the requirement rule twenty , four , Mr he said , very probably , that erm , look on text upon it , he really is concerned to erm have this case dealt with as you put it on the merits , it seems to me it 's in the interest of all parties that erm I should deal with the case on merits have on the assumption erm that er , that that was lodged properly I think , I ca I , a matter of which found within rule twenty eight , four and that the taxing officer give our interest under that rule . |
| 50 | The nucleus of the new squadron was provided mainly by ‘ C ’ Flight of 261 Squadron , the unit 's ground component being provided by the latter unit and by 1430 Flight , an army co-operation unit which had been operating in Italian East Africa until the previous month , when the main campaign there had been satisfactorily completed . |
| 51 | Over the billennia there has been a general loss of small bodies from the space between the planets , partly to interstellar space and partly through impacts with the planets . |
| 52 | On 2 March 1939 Pacelli was elected pope in succession to Pius XI in the shortest conclave there had been since 1623 . |
| 53 | However , Lois Maxwell , who played the ever-loyal Miss Moneypenny , says , ‘ Diana and I had lunch together and after eating some shrimps she realized how much garlic there had been in them . |
| 54 | Since her marriage there had been no communication with her former employer , not even at Christmas , and she could never think of her as a sister-in-law . |
| 55 | The Cornish lands , however , do not fit into the normal pattern of tenures , for demesne exploitation there had been abandoned before 1300 , if indeed it had ever existed ( 76 , pp.10–11 ) . |
| 56 | Though recent instruments like the new SZ zoom stereos are designed to be readily fitted to a range of different equipment there has been increasing demand in recent years for custom equipment and his has led to customer specific modular configurations for individual projects . |
| 57 | Within the machine translation community there has been the introduction of purely statistical techniques to translate between French and English ( Brown et al , 1989 ) . |
| 58 | However , Great Ayton members wo n't miss out on the deal because his appearance there has been rescheduled for Sunday , March 1 . |
| 59 | ‘ It 's become clear that the crop failure there has been far worse than we realised . ’ . |
| 60 | Throughout the inter-war period there had been no effective plan , merely Unwin 's work and sporadic activity in the preparation of statutory planning schemes by the London boroughs . |