Example sentences of "what have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you say what the best things are from your drama school experience and what has been of most value to you during your first year in the profession ? |
| 2 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 3 | In the mornings he speaks feelingly about what has been on his mind the night before . |
| 4 | But , if the end-result of the changes has not been significantly to reduce spending , it remains to be determined what it actually has achieved and what has been at stake . |
| 5 | That is what has been at issue since the Single European Act — I was not here before that — and today with the treaty of union . |
| 6 | Surprisingly though , even in what has been in recent years the most buoyant sector of oil product demand — petrol — there is likely to be a gradual lowering of demand despite increased usage of cars . |
| 7 | But most of it 's an attack by our own union against what has been in the past the most active members of this union . |
| 8 | Legislative power in the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) , a name adopted in April 1989 by what had been since 1979 the People 's Republic of Kampuchea [ for previous names see p. 37289 ] , is vested in the National Assembly . |
| 9 | It was significant that this terse declaration spoke only of the military aspects of what had been above all a social and political conflict . |
| 10 | The PLO felt able to play what had been for fifteen years its ‘ last card ’ — recognition of Israel — because it had gained a stronger one through the Uprising . |
| 11 | Blanche thought she detected a flicker of self-satisfaction , as though she had confirmed what had been for him until then just a suspicion . |
| 12 | Under Clifford , Palmer bided his time , keeping to himself his misgivings about the governor 's achievements in centralization , and exerting himself openly only to oppose Clifford 's proposal that lawyers should be allowed to plead in the provincial courts , thereby unacceptably diluting what had been under Lugard the Resident 's almost unrestricted jurisdiction over them . |
| 13 | Gordon was the first to provide irrefutable evidence of what had been until then no more than a faint suspicion : that puerperal fever was a contagious disease that could be carried from patient to patient by doctors and midwives . |
| 14 | It was hard to put into words what had been until so recently just a thought at the back of her mind , but she had to try . |
| 15 | What had been in my head for so long now out there , in the world . |
| 16 | ‘ Quite possibly true , ’ observed Nigel , ‘ but I feel not exactly what had been in mind . ’ |
| 17 | I lay in bed that night , trying to remember what had been in the bag . |
| 18 | National referendums held in November 1988 [ see pp. 36320 ; 36505-06 ] and February 1989 [ see p. 36475 ] overwhelmingly approved amendments to the Constitution transferring power away from the presidency and marking the end of what had been in effect a one-party state . |
| 19 | Much of what had been in the public sector of the old bourgeois state would be destroyed , while what had been in private hands would be taken over . |
| 20 | Much of what had been in the public sector of the old bourgeois state would be destroyed , while what had been in private hands would be taken over . |
| 21 | What had been in it lay ahead of her . |
| 22 | What 's been over there ? |
| 23 | You 've seen my cuttings and you 've seen what 's been on the News the last couple of days . |
| 24 | We 're just saying what 's been on our minds for a long time . ’ |
| 25 | I 'll tell you what 's been on the , the , the and I say that . |
| 26 | Nobody 's interested in laying down wine for the future , when they 're dead : instead they 're all drinking up what 's been in the cellar for decades . |