Example sentences of "[verb] have [been] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of what I have heard has been through the press . |
| 2 | MANCHESTER CITY can call off their wide-ranging search for a goalscorer — the man they want has been at the club all the time . |
| 3 | Indeed , religious tensions appear to have been at the root of the party divide — not the sole cause , it should be stressed ( indeed , much of this book has been concerned with documenting the complex ways constitutional and religious issues interacted ) , but perhaps the most potent source of conflict , with attitudes towards Dissent ( whether one was sympathetic or hostile to Protestant Nonconformists ) being one of the strongest predictors of partisan allegiance . |
| 4 | 685–6 when the pagan Caedwalla came to power , and the southern Saxons under a Christian king , Aethelwealh , but still otherwise largely a pagan people , appear to have been beyond the range of Theodore 's metropolitan power . |
| 5 | Vamplew ( 1979:2f ) states that , of the five types of disorder classified by Mann and Pearce , ‘ all but remonstrance can be found at soccer grounds in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , though the majority of incidents appear to have been of the frustration or confrontation varieties ’ . |
| 6 | It is true that the Hwicce appear to have been within the sphere of influence of the Mercian king from the reign of Wulfhere at the latest and Penda 's presence at Cirencester c. 630 certainly reveals Mercian involvement with the region at a still earlier date . |
| 7 | The warning voices raised from time to time in the journal appear to have been in the minority . |
| 8 | How he must have wished to have been in the puppet 's place , no policies , work and no strings attached . |
| 9 | Heart valves can be removed very simply from the body up to three days after death … you do not need to have been on a life support machine … even heart attack victims can be suitable donors . |
| 10 | She had thought that the woman had liked her , but the comment she had caught had been to the effect that spoiled children like Miss T. got what they deserved ! |
| 11 | Those that are now appearing have been in the pipeline for at least two years , having been commissioned before the recession hit the publishing industry . |
| 12 | I believe a lot of what they have done has been in a calculated way , like getting George Best on the cover . |
| 13 | Any decision that has been made has been with the best intentions of the people of at heart , to maintain as a leading European city and to derive benefits for the people of this community . |
| 14 | Any decision that has been made has been with the best intentions of the people of at heart , to maintain as a leading European city and to derive benefits for the people of this community . |
| 15 | She had planted some runner beans in the patch of the old vegetable garden he had dug earlier ; they were flowering energetically and seemed to have been worth the trouble . |
| 16 | His face was so familiar that he seemed to have been with the production for weeks . |
| 17 | In many ways they seemed to have been on the verge of civilisation , as they kept pigs , and cultivated the land for millet . |
| 18 | Our starting point for analysing structure happens to have been with an exercise , the form of drama popularised by Brian Way , and yet little attempt has so far been made by him or by anyone else to show how these apparently slight adjustments within the structure of the exercise can seriously affect the outcome . |
| 19 | SULTRY : Carla is said to have been at the chateau |
| 20 | Thus for example it is sometimes held to be of significance that the first appearance of the resurrected Christ is said to have been to a woman . |
| 21 | It is no longer , as it were , a global political programme , as it may be said to have been in the 19th and earlier 20th centuries . |
| 22 | Everything he had done had been in the light of a life he believed we would , one day , share . |
| 23 | Only a tiny percentage of students I have ever met have been to a seminar or a lecture . |
| 24 | Recently , SAVE has been to the rescue of a small but delightful Methodist chapel in a Lincolnshire village , to stop it being dismantled and shipped to the USA ; the Pavilion Theatre at Ryde on the Isle of Wight , which the local council had agreed to demolish ; and a popular Hampstead pub , Jack Straw 's Castle , which , though an important work by the architect Raymond Erith , the brewers wished to alter radically . |
| 25 | Self-evaluation from which review and audit can begin has been at the heart of a long-standing national project , Guidelines for the Review and Internal Development of Schools ( GRIDS ) . |
| 26 | The rhetoric of the Right in recent years , is that women have acquired rights and opportunities in the public world , especially in the labour market , but this , it is alleged has been at the expense of their families . |
| 27 | The scale of operation that would be needed has been on the world 's agenda twice in modern times , but in both cases for the benefit of white nations . |
| 28 | The chap on the Britannia stage was referring , almost certainly , to a recent threat by the IRA in Derry to kill two people who they allege to have been behind a ‘ major drugs ring ’ in the city . |
| 29 | He claimed to have been at the Munich Olympics in 1972 while serving with the US Army , and seemed particularly proud of a photograph of himself in officer 's uniform ( without apparently realising that the insignia were incorrect ) . |
| 30 | A Kashmiri Muslim , she claimed to have been to the Doon School ( the Indian Eton ) and to have completed a Master 's degree in English at Bombay University . |