Example sentences of "[prep] thing have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trend of things had been for agricultural land to go out of production because it was easier to earn a living working in Israel . |
| 2 | It had n't What kind of things had been in the past ? |
| 3 | In Anglo-American finance , it is held , the proper order of things has been reversed : finance should be the slave of industry , but has instead become its master . |
| 4 | ‘ Sacks of things have been stolen from one of the storehouses , ’ she explained to Cheryl . |
| 5 | There 's no given word that UFOs and aliens exist , but if you read between the lines , a hell of a lot of things have been taken away and readjusted . |
| 6 | the important thing in the last two years , everything has to be in , as I say it 's not true to say everything but quite a lot of things have been in , so both those are , are the . |
| 7 | This kind of thing has been said about Hamlet , to whom , as I say , Kelman alludes , and more than alludes . |
| 8 | In one sense this kind of thing has been taking place for centuries . |
| 9 | This sort of thing has been tried before and failed . |
| 10 | It seems this sort of thing 's been going on ever since the Romans colonized Sardinia and drove the indigenous population off the rich pasture in the lowlands up into the Barbagia . ’ |