Example sentences of "[verb] they have be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they wo n't go out on the streets until officers using them have been fully trained . |
| 2 | An alleged disadvantage of alliances is that they lock states to each other even after the circumstances which initially produced them have been fundamentally altered . |
| 3 | When benefits have been claimed they have been small compared with the resources employed . |
| 4 | as if they did n't even want anyone to know they 'd been inside . ’ |
| 5 | But today , angry customers like Banbury businessman , Michael Cratchley , who forked out £4,000 for a holiday in France , say they 've been badly let down . |
| 6 | Most of the airmen and women fly home in January but some say they have been here so long that this is their home , they 'll be staying in England . |
| 7 | In Leicestershire their probate inventories show them to have been essentially large-scale farmers , generally working 100 acres or more , sometimes occupying two or more farms extending into more than one parish , renting additional pastures , and with few exceptions distinguished from plain husbandmen by superior wealth . |
| 8 | The Tory led authority says they 've been so successful in collecting the tax , that they 've earmarked a hundred and seventy thousand pounds to help cut future bills . |
| 9 | LEEDS SKIPPER SAYS THEY 'VE BEEN TOO SOFT ON THE OPPOSITION |
| 10 | he says they have been far behind and came nowhere near the 70–78% of E grades achieved by the crossbred lambs by the Dutch Texel . |
| 11 | From what Silver has said they have been constantly upping their offer . |
| 12 | From what Silver has said they have been constantly upping their offer . |
| 13 | Of all the hedges I 've seen they 've been about eighteen two foot , about that far apart |
| 14 | they were in , I know they 've been there years |
| 15 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 16 | I do n't think they 'd been actually taken from what I can gather . |
| 17 | I was about the last one with a tanker er before er strike I mean they 've been there afterwards but er and er a certain tank was empty . |
| 18 | But I just thought , you know , it 'd be nice to give it because they have been , I mean they 've been really helpful and |
| 19 | Well I mean I erm I mean they 've been so awa |
| 20 | In our society we would normally not interpret a phrase like that wrongly , because everyday usage confirms that when we say someone is an ass we mean they have been rather stupid . |
| 21 | Post Mortem examinations revealed they had been probably been battered with a hammer . |
| 22 | Some students felt they had been rather hard pressed in relation to their knowledge of chemistry , but Coleman rightly said that a properly educated gentleman could be expected to understand the general principles and applications of chemical science . |
| 23 | Though CSE grade 1 had been deemed to be the equivalent of a good O level pass , this had not really brought the two into line : the equivalence was granted as a concession to the increasingly academic ambitions of the secondary modern schools , and , later , as a consolation to those pupils in comprehensive schools who thought they had been wrongly ‘ deselected ’ away from O levels . |
| 24 | oh yes you 've got ta actually I think they 've been very good |
| 25 | I 've a feeling that , that probably they are all together and that they are safe because I think the , the , the , the Soviets are probably trying to , to damp down the issue now by keeping quiet on it , because I think they 've been very rattled . |
| 26 | No I do n't think they should no I think they 've been there quite a while it 's a shame to . |
| 27 | ‘ It is an enormous relief but I think they have been very clever . ’ |
| 28 | Mum said they 'd been all over today ! |
| 29 | Ninety-eight ( 18 per cent ) said they had been sexually abused at some time , including 82 girls — the victims of rape , incest , sexual assault or prostitution . |
| 30 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |