Example sentences of "[adv] have [adv] [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 His place alone has never been in doubt .
2 ‘ He may not have actually been in his room , Sir , ’ said Allen .
3 This may be the point to take off and realise a long-planned dream — moving to the country if home has always been in town or vice versa .
4 There is little sign of comital residences in civitates , nor any evidence of a comital archive being kept in a civitas ( as they still had occasionally been in seventh-century Gaul ) .
5 During the past four years , and it really has only been with us for that long , desktop publishing has managed to get itself a fairly bad name among the professional graphics community .
6 But we need to fill the gap , and by the way colleagues , I think it is appropriate , just to end this particular section of my reply with the comment that at the public services section conference from our count forty percent of the delegates there had never been to a G M B conference before .
7 He 's one of the strongest scrummagers in the game yet has rarely been inside a gym in his life , although a few of his international colleagues swear that he must be a closet trainer .
8 As the royal party came through the school gates , however , an entire youth brass orchestra , who again had obviously been at the ready for several hours on a cold wintry day , burst into life in the playground .
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