Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must 've been dead eighteen years . |
| 2 | And your sister 's ten years older than you so they must 've been there ten years plus , must n't they ? |
| 3 | you , you must 've been there ten years plus . |
| 4 | There has been slightly greater interest in Cued Speech , but again the findings have mainly consisted of case studies or unsubstantiated claims . |
| 5 | OFFICIALLY there has been just one Clinton fighting on the Democrat ticket to get into the White House . |
| 6 | There has been wide public interest in international comparisons of schooling in recent years . |
| 7 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 8 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 9 | There has been most impressive progress in Sheffield . |
| 10 | To the astonishment of some , the nursery — opened just over a year ago — has been most popular option . |
| 11 | The quarry has been here 200 years and is part of the landscape , rather than a blot on it . ’ |
| 12 | He has been here eight years . |
| 13 | Raskolnikov has been here three years . |
| 14 | Hello folks , my boss has been away this morning so I 've been busy scanning a few leeds picies and saving them as gif files . |
| 15 | Indeed , it is precisely because there has been approximately equal progress on both sides that there has been so much progress in the level of sophistication of design . |
| 16 | And of course in recent years there has been yet another pressure to move away from Brian Way 's methods . |
| 17 | Pollitt believed that " there can be no real and effective People 's Front unless there has been already united action within the Labour Movement itself . " |
| 18 | To date , however , there has been rather little evidence on the means of transmission of difficulties . |
| 19 | In much of Western Europe a predominant characteristic has been trade union pluralism ( and sometimes reluctance to engage in continuous relationships with employers ) promoted by ideological , philosophical and religious differences , although in recent years there has been rather less emphasis upon the importance of religious affinity . |
| 20 | Even that would be better than the policy Vacuum there has been since Black Wednesday . |
| 21 | Hair has been vertically spiral wound on large rods by Beverly Kyprianou at Cobella |
| 22 | Given the undoubted importance of deixis to philosophical , Psychological and linguistic approaches to the analysis of language , there has been surprisingly little work of a descriptive nature in the area , with a Consequent lack of adequate theories and frameworks of analysis . |
| 23 | As he points out there has been surprisingly little research in this area and what there is derives mostly from the sociology of education under the heading of teacher socialisation . |
| 24 | There has been surprisingly little comment as to why minority communities in New York , Chicago , Los Angeles and elsewhere , once poor but benign and culturally engaging , are now centres of terror and despair . |
| 25 | White Pudding , which also went round faster than the previous record , clocking 31.18 secs , is drawn in box four and the main danger to Kildare Slippy tomorrow could come from Run on King , which has been favourably allocated trap one . |
| 26 | Opportunities for dual qualification , in both education and librarianship , barely existed until the pioneer establishment of a Teacher-Librarianship Diploma at University College London in the late 1960s , and although a variety of different courses are now emerging there has been precious little encouragement or inducement for ambitious people to take advantage of them . |
| 27 | There has been precious little attention to giving basic education to the general public on the art of wise borrowing . |
| 28 | The article also states that the burden of proof that a standard term has been individually negotiated falls on the seller or supplier , but given the provisions set out in the previous paragraph , it is hard to see how this burden can ever be discharged , unless there has been an individual negotiation at which both parties actually discussed and wrote out the clause in question for the first time . |
| 29 | ‘ Since 1987 , 270 Darlington companies have gone out of business and it has been overwhelmingly small companies . |
| 30 | Yet there has been remarkably little research activity in this area . |