Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [pron] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has apparently been some misunderstanding about the future of this Club and we have been asked to reassure members that the Club is continuing and that eligibility remains as before . |
| 2 | ‘ It certainly has n't taken a back seat and there have been developments , but I 'd better not tell you what they are until the details are officially released . ’ |
| 3 | Biogeography provides the most obvious area in which the significance of human activity should be particularly demanding of study and there have been two particular themes , albeit increasingly related , which have proceeded in this direction . |
| 4 | I find it very difficult to dwell on these serious — even gloomy — thoughts when the sun is shining , the winds light and I have been asked to take a party of visitors out for a boat trip . |
| 5 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 6 | For a Christian , it should be almost impossible to judge which changes have been brought about by the marriage and which have been brought about by the love of God . |
| 7 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 8 | The demands of the National Curriculum have put great pressure upon the educational service in new forms of school management and there have been problems of staffing and funding . |
| 9 | However , I have had occasion recently to visit the Church Road offices of the Environmental Health and Building Control sections of the Council and I have been appalled to see the conditions in which these people have to work . |
| 10 | It has been passed round the members of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council and I have been asked to let you know that they have no objections to this development . |
| 11 | Mr Murray replied , ‘ The Chairman and the Executive Board are backing this campaign and I have been given the ‘ teeth to police ’ the changeover and to deal with transgressors . ’ |
| 12 | It is rumoured that the project is backed by an international mining consortium and there have been recent reports of attempts to enlist Yanomami from the area for military service . |
| 13 | ‘ This is Anadarko 's first venture in the international scene and we have been working very closely with them , ’ Stephen commented . |
| 14 | These qualities have always been present in the metaphors and similes of poetry but they have been less frequent in painting , which in the past was largely concerned with reproducing external reality , with decoration , or , as in the more advanced movements of recent years , with the composition of color and line into formal design . |
| 15 | Manager Harry McNally said : ‘ We are not out of the wood but we have been thrown a lifeline . |
| 16 | He has only a one-year contract and there have been differences with chairman Bob Murray , including the failure to sign Everton 's Ray Atteveld , the loss of Paul Bracewell after a contract dispute and a boardroom veto on selling £750,000 Gordon Armstrong to Southampton . |
| 17 | He has only a one-year contract and there have been differences with chairman Bob Murray , including the failure to sign Everton 's Ray Atteveld , the loss of Paul Bracewell after a contract dispute and a boardroom veto on selling £750,000 Gordon Armstrong to Southampton . |
| 18 | New thinking in rural development planning in general has only been taken up piecemeal by conservation planners and commentators in the international literature and they have been idealistic and exhortative in tone . |
| 19 | ‘ My sister and I have been estranged some years . |
| 20 | The Race Relations Committee is currently very concerned at the number of ethnic minority students who have passed the Vocational Course and who have been unable to find pupillage for 1992–3 . |
| 21 | THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market . |
| 22 | Another major agency , Brook Street Bureau , has recently offered employee status and the guarantee of work to certain of its temporary office workers , those with " top skills , wide experience and who have been with the agency for at least three months " ( see Financial Times , 12/4/88 ) . |
| 23 | The highest court in Britain is the House of Lords , but when they sit as a court the Lords consist only of a panel of members who have long judicial experience and who have been appointed as Law Lords . |
| 24 | The only manifestation of PBC associated autoimmune disease was hypothyroidism and there have been no patients described in English language publications with PHT and thyroiditis . |
| 25 | Right-wing women have relatives and friends in the army and police forces whose lives are in danger or who have been killed in the civil war . |
| 26 | Youth Enterprise Scheme helps young people aged 25 and under who wish to start up a business or who have been in business and now wish to expand . |
| 27 | There is a cuddly look about the new Scottish Office ministerial team and there have been unconfirmed sightings of the word ‘ consensus ’ . |
| 28 | I have no right and you have been very generous , Fred , Uncle Steve and the boys and Gertie ca n't understand why you did n't come here with us , Gert only said this morning that you ought to be here , your place is with us , but do n't think I am not grateful . |
| 29 | These passages I have already referred to as being extremely indicative of the wonderful girl that Anna Jane was before her accident and I have been very much in mind in the earlier part of my judgement . |
| 30 | He has decreed you are too old and senile for your post and I have been sent to replace you ! ’ |