Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Thatcher ideal of home ownership for all has been abandoned , and ministers are searching for ways to boost the supply of private rented property . |
| 2 | Tuda 's episcopal consecration in southern Ireland would not for long have been acceptable . |
| 3 | I sometimes think they have a neurosis about not having been in the blitz . ’ |
| 4 | I am writing to apologise for not having been in touch to arrange a time to visit your new editing facility in Wellington Square . |
| 5 | ‘ And though some people may damn me irrevocably and for ever , in the nature of things my profession and my work will open new relations to me , that much fresher for not having been frozen , hardened , and made sterile by old prejudices . ’ |
| 6 | Apologies for not having been in touch for so long . |
| 7 | I , too , wish to apologise to the House for not having been present at the start of this debate . |
| 8 | She could feel the anger surging inside her and she fought it down , not wanting him to know what a fool she felt for not having been made aware of that fact . |
| 9 | Strangely enough the best stress-buster of all has been around for thousands of years : massage . |
| 10 | Most impervious of all has been the news , making only brief reference to items such as the 1967 Sexual Offences Act or the more recent Local Government Act . |
| 11 | Most significant of all has been the fact that it is now possible for banks to engage in a full range of securities related business along the same lines as the German universal banks , a practice which had hitherto been avoided in the UK through the imposition of self-imposed constraints . |
| 12 | Investors have frequently been offered special inducements , but the biggest inducement of all has been the underpricing of many of the issues and the chance of an immediate profit . |
| 13 | The best thing of all has been the chance of taking part in this war … |
| 14 | These cancer surveillance programmes are now widely implemented despite not having been subjected to clinical trial . |
| 15 | When the house of childhood does not serve as a place of support and nurture , when there is intense conflict between different members of the household , then we may find that many memories of indoors have been suppressed . |
| 16 | Here , the elements which are selected as focal ( them , he , and was ) are not new in the sense of not having been mentioned before , but they are new in the sense of being in some way contrastive . |
| 17 | Well I you 'll forgive me the disadvantage , I 'm not trying to cop out , but the disadvantage of not having been immediately involved is that I have n't seen that quotation from Michael . |
| 18 | The other consequence was that , if Stewart kings did not live and reign until a ripe old age , they had the immeasurable advantage of always having been kings ; most were barely aware , some not at all , of any time in their lives when they had not worn the crown . |
| 19 | Imagination was in short supply , and the poverty of yesterday had been banished from their memories , the happy-go-luckiness along with the hardships . |
| 20 | And of course there was no question of her having escaped from a mental hospital or of ever having been in one . |
| 21 | I would agree with that , but I would just like to pick up three two of there have been one or two instances felt that they have necessarily make aware perhaps that something 's coming up in er difficult , but I just wanted to mention that er I do n't know what the procedures are actually , but I mean it d did n't seem to be one or two cases not saying it necessarily the department 's fault , I 'm er just making the point . |
| 22 | He referred jestingly to ‘ that which somewhat sticks by me : it is the forest , and I might easily lose myself in it ’ A committee of the Commons a week later complained , among many other ‘ grievances in the civil government ’ , of ‘ Forest fines , which of late have been too far enlarged ’ . |
| 23 | All the pronouncements from NATO of late have been to the effect that we regard nuclear deterrents as an important part of the armoury of NATO forces generally . |
| 24 | It now concentrates on reference ports of its 4GL technolgy for the major chip platforms rather than on specific machines , but of late has been winning downsizing contracts on HP , Sequent and Pyramid hardware . |
| 25 | A Leeds frailty of late has been the inability of the side to convert the pressure they exert on the opposition . |
| 26 | It is the small company which soaks up the unemployed , rather than the larger company , which of late has been shedding workers in massive numbers . |
| 27 | Lucker drops out of nowhere having been for a pee . |
| 28 | The Maniots , who trace descent from them , boast of never having been subdued by Slav or Turk . |
| 29 | I know that in the mundane , the thought of never having been understood or recognised rankles ; but the transcendent joy is the greater and I get instead the hidden flowers of sorrow of my own soul with their scent and their beauty . |
| 30 | MacDonald 's assumption throughout the Government and almost up to the last moment was that Baldwin and he would retire together , and that Neville Chamberlain , with the freshness , if not of youth , at least of never having been Prime Minister before , would succeed directly . |