Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been discovering how much travel writing relies on metaphor to describe the unfamiliar , using an imagery that the folks back home will recognise . |
| 2 | When they have been eating out all the time they have been away , and are longing for an evening at home , the suggestion does not go down well . |
| 3 | Members may well be aware of , of some of the actions that the A T C have been taking on this , and have been calling on that to actually look at that to list of alternate . |
| 4 | I think to be honest to you , the the have been given very little guidance , she does n't understand what 's supposed to happen |
| 5 | Schools , temples and churches have been hit too many times in the past few weeks to be the victims of mistakes . |
| 6 | I have been asked how many tickets were issued on the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been kept very much in the dark about what is going on . |
| 8 | We have been written off all season , but we must keep believing . ’ |
| 9 | It is because these principles have been lost that much modern architecture is criticized : there is no link with or respect for Nature . |
| 10 | Told he was being arrested , he just smirked : ‘ You guys have been watching too much TV . ’ |
| 11 | Sixty-hour weeks have been chalked up several times ! |
| 12 | However , my own interest , perhaps , is more in what a library , a typical library not just a university library , can do with its own computer , and most of our most of our readers , most of the people who use libraries expect to find books in those libraries and expect to find them when they want them , and our interests have been angled very much towards improving that sort of service . |
| 13 | However , my own interest , perhaps , is more in what a library , a typical library — not just a university library can do with its own computer , and most of our readers , most of the people who use libraries , expect to find books in those libraries and expect to find them when they want them , and our interests have been angled very much towards improving that sort of service . |
| 14 | We have been left so much to our own devices — after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people 's . |
| 15 | During the past decade the poverty stricken countries of the South have been paying far more money to the rich North than they have been receiving in new money . |
| 16 | Perhaps , thought , they 're people who have been working there all their lives ? |
| 17 | Fortunately for me , some of my friends and relations like something a bit more unusual , so I have been working out some new ideas for this year for those ‘ champagne ’ garments on a ‘ lemonade ’ income . |
| 18 | Could it be ( and perhaps this more likely ! ) that machines have been working non-stop all summer , spring and last winter ? |
| 19 | PLANS to institute a pigeon cull in both Petersfield and Alton town centres have been thrown out this week . |
| 20 | After they have been released then these anxiety dreams start . |
| 21 | Spring is also the ideal time to do all those jobs you have been putting off all winter . |
| 22 | Special recruitment drives have been organised , " model agreements " governing when and under what conditions temporary workers might be used , and " casual workers " charters ' have been drawn up Some unions , notably the electricians , have gone further , establishing local registers of ( otherwise ) unemployed members from which employers have to draw when filling the temporary positions enterprise level agreements have permitted them to create . |
| 23 | And finally we return you to America to party on down with those incredibly nice chaps from TEENAGE FAN CLUB , who have been winning over all and sundry with their boyish charm , roguish antics and , occasionally , pop music . |
| 24 | So many of the games I 've seen here have been dominated more that ever by the boot . |
| 25 | If application forms/c.v.s have been used correctly many of these questions will already have been answered and the well-prepared interviewer will have familiarized himself/herself with the details . |
| 26 | The , the idea have been planted there any way . |
| 27 | They have been attracted as much by the intellectual image as by the high level of celebrity support from artists like John Cleese , Peter Gabriel and Sting . |
| 28 | This year , the funds have been allocated very much according to the UFC 's grading of the quality of research carried out at each university . |
| 29 | Two new business studies examinations have been launched successfully this year . |
| 30 | Are people going to have to take a medical before they can go down a street they have been going down all their lives ? ’ |