Example sentences of "[noun] they have be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1834 reforming zealots destroyed a vast collection of Exchequer tallies in the furnaces of the House of Lords , and through the centuries they have been thoughtlessly thrown out and destroyed in the same way that , after a period , we ourselves dump old bills and receipts . |
| 2 | But when editors have seen it in the States they 've been very impressed but find it difficult to use . |
| 3 | Whatever force they have is completely exhausted by those underlying considerations . |
| 4 | Aye everything was gi really fantastic the people that helped the people that gave to the strike , out of this world I know the help they had was really fantastic . |
| 5 | She imagined Georg happy and married to some nice girl , while she went on in this gulf of misery for the rest of her life , hanging around waiting for glimpses of Gesner , spending every night reliving every moment they had been together , all the wonderful things he had said to her , the magic of his hands when he touched her — she shivered . |
| 6 | Sartori had been indulgent for the weeks they 'd been together . |
| 7 | Then he held out his arms and she went into them , laughing , wiping out the days they had been apart in that one eager meeting . |
| 8 | In spite of being so fair , his skin had taken on quite a deep tan in the few days they had been there . |
| 9 | some days they 've been about four ah ? |
| 10 | Although as a group they had been officially emancipated in 1871 , burakumin became the sporadic scapegoats of popular resentment , and social discrimination persisted on a wide scale in spheres such as education , employment and marriage . |
| 11 | In the twenty years they 've been here , they 've clearly thrived . |
| 12 | The habit of giving in to him was still hard to break , though , even after all the years they had been apart . |
| 13 | The last few years they had been more apart , until in 1969 they both rediscovered each other in one of the first Women 's Liberation groups in London . |
| 14 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 15 | John Bratby R A A Retrospective , Gray Art Gallery , Clarence Road , Hartlepool ( Until April OVER the years they have been more than just good friends the Gray Art Gallery , in Hartlepool , and John Bratby , founder member of the ‘ Kitchen Sink School ’ , and , since 1971 , a full member of the Royal Academy . |
| 16 | In their financial affairs they have been abnormally secretive . |
| 17 | In the case of the powerpack they have been greatly influenced by the work of Professor Thring and his colleagues , and have proposed a hybrid powerpack which would make the best use of an internal combustion engine and electric motor and would reduce fuel consumption by some 50% and toxic emissions by 80% . |
| 18 | The parents have very little social contact with friends , relatives , or authority and any contact they have is often unpleasant . |
| 19 | But in sport as a whole they have been mostly conspicuous by their absence . |
| 20 | For the past decade they have been more concerned with health-care than with wages and some fear that the benefits their members will get under a national plan could be less than they have managed to negotiate . |
| 21 | All these diets are low-calorie ones , and for many people they have been highly successful . |
| 22 | Minutes they had been together and yet she felt that if he walked away out of her life now she would feel a loss that could n't be explained . |
| 23 | Although in France changes in the balance of class relations permitted a whittling away of forms of labour representation in the state enterprises , in Britain they have been much more resistant to change , until recent years at least . |
| 24 | When tested at the end of the first year they were found to have developed on average at about half the rate that is usual , though there were indications that at birth they had been potentially normal . |
| 25 | Behind the scenes they have been steadily resisting , for many years , the introduction of even the most basic and cheap safety measures such as cab radios . |
| 26 | Scientific studies have established that 80 per cent of the salmon they have been systematically killing were returning to your rivers and should have laid your golden eggs . |
| 27 | Tax-free depreciation allowances are also in common use , but in Japan they have been more selectively applied . |
| 28 | In the United States and Europe they 've been much more appreciative , which saddens him a little . |
| 29 | It is appropriate to try to discover if such institutions were ever actually the way they had been previously presented by a scholarship interested ( even if it did not declare its interest ) in constructing its own version of the past to answer its own preoccupations . |
| 30 | He said dogs could not have killed the rabbits in the way they had been savagely slaughtered . |