Example sentences of "have be [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One problem with avalanche transceivers to date has been that their transmission range is only effective for other members of a group surveying the snow at the surface . |
| 2 | In recent years there has been considerable discussion of the role of the Sovereign in the eventuality of a hung Parliament , such as that of 1929–31 , and the general conclusion has been that her role is essentially a passive one . |
| 3 | The anecdotal view has been that his brevity of tenure reflected animosity from an Anglican establishment , disturbed by Lyell 's rejection of a recent , universal flood . |
| 4 | The reality has been that our core funding , like that of so many other bodies , has been progressively reduced , by City Hall in our case , and we are constantly threatened with having our funding removed entirely , the premise being that BAT will pick up the bill . |
| 5 | Historically one important assumption has been that our ordinary lives serve the interests of the powers that be . |
| 6 | And it was only about we i it was wi within a couple of minutes , or , probably less Jim came in er I think he was , I do n't know where he 'd been cos his day off was Thursday I think . |
| 7 | It may have been that its conflicts with the communists exaggerated its importance . |
| 8 | Had the Israelites been polytheists , like all the other peoples of the ancient world , a natural conclusion to have drawn from the defeat would have been that their god or gods had been overcome by the gods of the Philistines . |
| 9 | The Saturday Review remarked that he was ‘ in no way prominent for artistic taste or knowledge ’ , and his only possible interest could have been that his London home , Montagu House , was on the opposite side of Whitehall from the site . |
| 10 | Or , simply , it may have been that his feet were bad . |
| 11 | Well Canadian you know might have been that his father was in the Canadian army in the war . |
| 12 | Despite Leicester 's pressure the Tranmere goalkeeper was not as active as he should have been although his defence must take some credit for that . |
| 13 | How glorious it must have been when its mosaic , created in 1371 by Venetians using Bohemian glass , was newly installed . |
| 14 | But how much more imposing must they have been when their eye sockets were equipped with staring eyes of black obsidian and white coral . |
| 15 | One of the reasons why there has been nothing outstanding about the rate of growth of trade within the EEC and between the EEC and third countries may have been because its members have not been as assiduous as might have been expected ( by the British at least ) in removing barriers to trade between themselves and with the rest of the world . |
| 16 | This could either have been because their services were more expensive , or because they were providing more of them . |
| 17 | This may have been because my hopes were raised when mention was made of the need to consider ‘ the environmental effect of each stage leading to an alternative energy system ’ . |
| 18 | The busmen 's case had been that their strict schedules made the satisfactory operation of physical functions difficult . |
| 19 | Ascot was barely a week past and all the indications had been that her rehabilitation as a jockey would be a matter of weeks not days . |
| 20 | Tears again , she felt like the child she had been when her father gave wild stinging slaps to her legs by way of welcome after she 'd run away from home . |
| 21 | A Sikh woman from Jullunder , recently arrived in Britain , described what her feelings had been when her daughter got married six years ago . |
| 22 | She was not grief-stricken the way she had been when her father died , but sorrow was a weight which kept her from opening her eyes on a world where she would sorely miss his company . |
| 23 | On 27 July Churchill made his last appearance in the House of Commons ( his first had been when my father was head boy at Thame ) , and after the summer the country accelerated into a general-election campaign . |
| 24 | He 'd been wound-up and anxious ever since he 'd come home from his shift and discovered her missing , an empty space under the bed where her bags had been and her photograph album — probably the most precious single item that she owned — gone . |
| 25 | Connection was gone between what had been and her present distress . |
| 26 | She knew what the singing in the air had been and her arms crept around his neck as he drew her closer still . |
| 27 | As this was rather uncomfortable , a year later we were allocated a council house , this house was in where our old house had been and my nana 's house was in the neighbouring village of , so luckily in all our moves my brother and I never had to move schools . |
| 28 | She believes you are more pleasant now than you have been since your father died , in fact . ’ |