Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [pron] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some return to the surface with scars on their snouts which suggest that they have been battling with creatures possessing suckers 13 centimetres across , and squid beaks even bigger than that of the Norwegian giant have been found in their stomachs . |
| 2 | Now , sources close to the receivers of the H-M Agency of Los Angeles suggest that it has been conclusively proved that she was involved in the massacre at Dead Rat , Arizona , last year , during which a peaceful force of process-servers were murdered by members of the Maniax gangcult , who then razed the community to the ground . |
| 3 | All these suggest that there has been some degree of real tooth loss in these predator assemblages due to digestion , and since this loss is also accompanied by loss of bone , it is considered that this is the most extreme degree of breakage in these comparisons . |
| 4 | Data are not very adequate but they suggest that there has been a reduction of inequalities in this area even though the advantages of the non-manual over the manual groups are still substantial today . |
| 5 | The trends observed by analysis of Table 3 suggest that there has been a steady growth in research on Scottish geology , but that there have been differences in growth rates between universities over the time interval . |
| 6 | Writers in this tradition emphasize that there has been an historical change in the cultural and social meaning of the term ‘ family ’ over time , so that it has come to mean essentially the unit based on marriage and parenthood , with a secondary role only accorded to other kin relationships . |
| 7 | The embarrassing thing is that we 're all very right people so the place is a mess , er , and it takes us a quarter of a day before we realise that we 've been burgled , because things are actually slightly neater than when we left the previous day . |
| 8 | Even without this problem , it should be our objective to advance negotiations , contract drafting and due diligence as far as possible with the preferred bidder before the remaining offerers realise that they have been unsuccessful . |
| 9 | I realise that I had been less than a block away , watching the drugstore explode . |
| 10 | Slowly she began to come back to reality , and realise that she had been entirely at his mercy . |
| 11 | Well and he wrote me this letter saying erm saying I , I realise that there 's been something on your mind recently and I hope you can talk to me about it . |
| 12 | The auctioneers say that they have been assured that a licence will be forthcoming . |
| 13 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB and Italtel SpA say that they have been awarded a contract by Stet-Hellas SA , one of Greece 's two mobile telephone operators , for Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular phone equipment worth $62.5m : the order includes exchanges , control systems , and radio base stations . |
| 14 | as I say if you could erm if you could some time soon drop a note off in my tray about , you know , kind of what exactly you 've got outstanding so I can go round and see the erm see the people concerned and , and say that you 've been |
| 15 | Would I one day show people this jacket and say that it had been a lovely afternoon in Central Park when he gave it to me and , in closing , would I say that as he disappeared into the trees , I never saw Oscar Wilde again ? |
| 16 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 17 | I say that I have been sick with flu . |
| 18 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 19 | Joanne and Keith Powell of the George , Ash Vale are behind the event and they say that there 's been a lot of interest so far . |
| 20 | They acknowledge that it has been sparked by the slide in the pound , but say that the financial markets do not think sterling will ever recover all of its value against the deutschmark or the franc . |
| 21 | The victims of Stealers forget that they 've been infected . |
| 22 | Then I forget that I 've been joking with her then she tells me off so I do n't bother any more . |
| 23 | Your patience is appreciated and we apologise if we have been overpaying you . |
| 24 | Aye , she says I 'm feeling sick , well that 's er all your if your head is what you call it when you feel awful , you know I say if you 've been on the , on the drink you know when you get up and your head ooh , well that sets your stomach off , so his trouble 's coming from his head , on his stomach |
| 25 | They say unless you 've been unemployed six months you 're not unemployed . |
| 26 | I forget when I 've been away . |
| 27 | Poland was not even in the same shape or place as it had been , and virtually the only thing that now united the Poles of the different partition experiences , religious beliefs and political outlooks was a new found sense of Polish national feeling . |
| 28 | I regret that I had been out of the office on the 15 July and did not receive your FAX until first thing on the 16 July . |
| 29 | So , although we have of course taken a view of what has been significant , we deny that we have been ethnocentric in our choice of an Anglo-American focus . |
| 30 | We deny that we have been disdainful of patients : we were investigating a concern expressed by them in the most objective way we could . |