Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For his firm support and that of Charles Elly as Deputy Vice-President , despite other intense pressures on their time , I owe a singular debt of gratitude — as I do to the Secretary-General and all his staff , not least the dedicated private office team who have been such a help to me and to Catherine my wife . |
| 2 | Since those early days there have been many sea chases with much bigger things at stake , but broadly speaking the same rules apply , although it is sometimes difficult to be dispassionate where hard drugs are concerned . |
| 3 | And he added : ‘ If I were an American , I would be saying thank goodness there have been some musicals to keep Broadway alive for the last 10 years . ’ |
| 4 | None the less , since antiquity there have been many efforts to describe features of the world , including the social , in quantitative terms , efforts which began to assume an even greater urgency and consequentiality with the rise of the modern nation state and its requirements for an accurate accounting of its resources . |
| 5 | In the fifty years since the TA was last called up for war there have been many changes . |
| 6 | Since the Second World War there have been many changes in official policies toward , and social assumptions concerning , the control and treatment of crime and offenders . |
| 7 | Over the past few years there have been many reports in the national press advocating that all dwellings should be fitted with smoke detectors . |
| 8 | In the past 10 years there have been many suggestions of an increased incidence of cancer , or of clusters of cases , in the vicinity of nuclear installations . |
| 9 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |
| 10 | Over the years there have been many studies of the effects of smoking on gastric secretion . |
| 11 | Over the years there have been many modifications in an attempt to simplify the tendering procedure and improve the difficulties of administration . |
| 12 | In recent years there have been some significant advances in studying the auditory system , especially in the analysis of computational maps that recode intensity and phase differences in the two ears into the representation of auditory space ( Knudsen , DuLac , and Esterly 1987 ) , but this work has focused on subcortical mechanisms . |
| 13 | Our knowledge of life histories of most deep-sea ophiuroids is poor ( see Tyler , 1980 for a review ) although in recent years there have been several accounts of the reproductive biology of the more common species ( Schoener 1968 , 1972 : Tyler & Gage 1979 , 1980 , 1982 ; Gage & Tyler , 1981 , 1982 ) together with some work on the post-larval stages ( Schoener 1967 , 1969 ; Gage & Tyler 1981 ) . |
| 14 | In recent years there have been several judicial attempts to define the scope of the doctrine . |
| 15 | And grateful Jean , their son Nicholas and four daughters passed on ‘ heart-felt thanks to the surgeons and staff at Cheltenham and Frenchay hospitals , the police , ambulance and fire services , their friends and the countless well-wishers who have been such a sustaining source of strength ’ . |
| 16 | Since the group of seven meeting in Venice there have been several statements by the group referring to the world economy and the need for intensified policy coordination . |
| 17 | In addition there have been several other accidents where cars have collided with each others . |
| 18 | And of course there have been many moments when English art was very important on the Continent indeed . |
| 19 | Of course there have been some minor differences of opinion . |
| 20 | In the subsequent experience of the Church in exercising this ministry there have been many instances of failure , partial , delayed and temporary healing , reminding us that we live with the tension of the ‘ now ’ and the ‘ not yet ’ of the Kingdom . |
| 21 | Since the 16th century legislation has established an inquisitorial form of investigation into the dealings and assets of bankrupts which is calculated to yield potentially incriminating material , and in more recent times there have been many other examples , in widely separated fields , which are probably more numerous than is generally appreciated . |
| 22 | ‘ Adequate resources would have to include extra staff , as this shortage contributes a great deal to our lack of staff training , i.e. the staff we have are all needed to run the service ’ … |
| 23 | Nelson is flagging appropriate titles in its catalogue as ‘ self-access ’ , there are one or two new publishing names dipping toes in the swirling waters of EFL , and during the close season there have been some author-transfers , including David Vale from CUP to Heinemann and Alan Maley to Penguin . |
| 24 | Under this rubric there have been several locations which in the 1980s , at least at a particular , symbolic level , have lent a rhetorical credibility to the notion of an urban renaissance in many parts of the First World . |
| 25 | During the past week there have been several occasions where people have been meddling with candles and other things in the church , including the money boxes yet again , and so it is with some sadness that I have decided to keep the church locked during the holiday period . |
| 26 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 27 | Now , I suppose for most of us , bu bu because of the very fact we 're here this morning they have been few and far between , such experiences . |
| 28 | Another concern we have is that special employment and training measures , ( now catering for over 31,000 people in the North ) , have become a substitute for jobs — a way of reducing the official unemployment statistics and complementing the massive statistical fraud which those figures now represent . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , although the misuse of judicial interrogation is now only a distant history , it seems to have left its mark on public perceptions of the entire subject : and indeed not just public perceptions , for in the recent past there have been several authoritative and eloquent judicial reminders of the abuses of our former inquisitorial system and of the need to guard against their revival . |
| 30 | ‘ In ophthalmology there have been some problems but a new consultant has been appointed thanks to increased funding made available by this government . |