Example sentences of "have be [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er this has been altered quite a lot since then , but you can still see the er gate that was er to the yard of the station . |
| 2 | An explicit leaflet and poster for students sloganned ‘ take a course in safe sex ’ has been causing quite a furore . |
| 3 | If a terminal node has been reached then a new non-terminal branch is created , labelled with the first unmatched symbol . |
| 4 | His chief backer is Roy Hattersley , whom he has been seeing quite a bit lately . |
| 5 | My cataract operation has been moved forward a fortnight for the rather odd reason that the hospital is ‘ having to cancel all non-urgent operations in October ’ . |
| 6 | A Liverpool City Council spokesman said : ‘ He has been granted both a disabled facilities grant and mandatory renovation grant . ’ |
| 7 | Lately George has been doing quite a lot of libel , where there is also a jury to persuade and headlines to be had . |
| 8 | The death grant has been finished quite a long time ago , but there was the death grant erm because I can remember you know this , people telling me about this . |
| 9 | If you think that Toronto vertical market turnkey systems integrator Geac Computer Corp has been making rather a lot of acquisitions of late , well you ai n't seen nothing yet . |
| 10 | The event has been brought forward a year from 1991 and moved also from France to West Germany . |
| 11 | THE tremendous response to news of the video ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ means the release date has been brought forward a week to October 12 . |
| 12 | Already next season 's Ulster Senior Challenge Cup final has been brought forward a week to April 23 in order to accommodate the Lions party who will take in the game as part of their celebrations . |
| 13 | As the April meeting would coincide with election day it has been brought forward a week to April 2 when Richard Wood of Durham Wildlife Trust will be the speaker . |
| 14 | The man escaped from Coney Hill mental hospital in Gloucester , where he 'd been sent exactly a year ago after being convicted of the assault of a three year old girl in the city . |
| 15 | It was hard to believe that this generously smiling woman was the same predatory creature she 'd been watching just a moment ago — but the image she had seen was seared in her brain , and suddenly she knew there was no way in the world that she could allow this woman to be a mother to Kirsty . |
| 16 | and er they used to come to me and say how much does this man owe now and if he 'd been paying quite a bit next time he came in the shop they was all round him trying to persuade him to buy |
| 17 | Instantly , three athletic-looking youths sprang from a doorway where they 'd been idling just a short distance along the road . |
| 18 | Time to slow down — I 'd been booked here a couple of years earlier . |
| 19 | Perhaps if they had he would have been trying just a little harder and not preparing himself , as he was , for a long night of fornication . |
| 20 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 21 | Ministers of Health would have incurred little or no extra criticism if they had failed to provide the services which the £25 million yielded by the prescription charges have made possible ; what criticism there was , would have been diffused over a hundred objects and none of it would have made a distinct impression on the mind of the electorate . |
| 22 | They would not have been contemplated just a few years ago . |
| 23 | Any previous encounters will have been picked over a dozen times , the characters of the boys analysed in tedious detail , and interesting future possibilities considered . |
| 24 | Ten minutes before you might have been having quite a close conversation . ’ |
| 25 | What purported to be a parliament , called in the name of the Prince of Wales as keeper of the realm , and presided over by Isabella and Mortimer on the prince 's behalf , met in January 1327 , having been postponed nearly a month while some doubts and difficulties were resolved . |
| 26 | An investigation was considered to have been concluded once a judgement had been made about whether the allegation(s) had been substantiated or not and decisions made about how to proceed to an outcome , for example , to close the case , offer treatment , call a case conference , etc . |
| 27 | Thomas had been granted only a weekend pass . |
| 28 | Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past . |
| 29 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 30 | The prosecution allege these scratches had been inflicted just an hour earlier by Mrs Chandler as she fought back during the brutal sex attack . |