Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they might 've been up to . |
| 2 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 3 | Well this is erm as I say we , we , we could 've been somewhere in the region of two hundred and fifty thousand just on the I T issues alone . |
| 4 | I must 've been out at the wrong time . |
| 5 | Purists might argue he should 've been out in the colds using his sketchbook , instead of a camera , but he disagrees . |
| 6 | It should 've been back by now , some day in March , twenty eighth of March |
| 7 | By s. 3 of the 1986 Act the court may make a disqualification order where it appears that the person has been persistently in default in delivering returns , accounts or other documents to the Registrar of Companies . |
| 8 | The inclusion of the word " reasonably " gives the court a discretion which will be exercised in the tenant 's favour where for example he has made one or two late payments of rent , but not where he has been persistently in arrear throughout the term ( Bassett v Whiteley ( 1982 ) 54 P & CR 87 ) . |
| 9 | DEC has been ahead of the field in cultivating computer-aided drug design and other molecular modelling companies , and its latest is Waltham , Massachusetts-based Molecular Simulations Inc . |
| 10 | Chemicals has been ahead of the legislators , with 60 people already trained as manual handling assessors after completing a course devised with the help of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents . |
| 11 | They pick on an accountant because an accountant needs a good name and has been partly in control of the funds anyway . |
| 12 | It was in the nature of a revelation but like all revelations , she thought , it has been just below the surface of my mind , lingering unrecognised , waiting , and now I see it and it is a familiar friend . |
| 13 | In fact the staff response has been just below average with legal and financial worries being main areas of concern . |
| 14 | He had moreover made himself disagreeable to many contemporary naturalists , and his posthumous reputation has been well below what it was in his earlier life , when he was seen as the British Cuvier . |
| 15 | The reason for this discrepancy is not known ; it might be because there are short-term fluctuations in the rate of lava eruption and that recently the rate has been well below the long-term average . |
| 16 | Over the past five months , rainfall has been well below average : the month of January was the driest London has experienced for 154 years . |
| 17 | ‘ A girl called Louise Stacey has been on to them , asking how she could contact you . |
| 18 | ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered . |
| 19 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 20 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 21 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 22 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 23 | Since our concern here has been exclusively with assessment of Grant Related Expenditure and not with the subsequent use ( and possible misuse ) of these estimates in the actual allocations of money to Local Authorities , we shall concentrate on instability of the GRE . |
| 24 | Has been probably since the foundation of the club . |
| 25 | Now he he ca n't do that now because there 's a public alleyway through , and the public alleyway has been here at least since sixteen ninety one . |
| 26 | ‘ The town has been here since 1210 . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
| 28 | If the adventurers ask about the Oracle himself , he will give only the barest of details ; that he is a seer into the future , a servant to his master ( Drachenfels ) , and he has been here for — he ca n't remember how long . |
| 29 | The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend . |
| 30 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |