Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't say what it would 've been , you know what the outcome would 've been but it would 've been different . |
| 2 | Erm maintain , to maintain contact is not as good as what it should 've been but that was fair enough . |
| 3 | is in contrast to the behaviour of income distribution , where inequity has been but little reduced during the same periods , and which shows extreme relative rigidity and concentration in comparison with the greater equalizing capacity of the educational system . |
| 4 | Since then she has been but rarely seen here and so it is a special treat to have works on paper by her ( from the 1950s ) at Nicole Klagsbrun ( until 17 April ) . |
| 5 | Outside the courts , however , Pontius Pilate has been but one of many who have claimed , more or less sincerely , not to know what truth is . |
| 6 | Sixty seven of the pleadings bundle which are the further and better particulars this year and you can see that er looking back to page sixty six , what the plaintiffs have been asked to state was to give particulars of the change in financial position which had been outlined to Mr on the telephone and er your Lordship will see first of all that in answer eighty little A , there is a reference to er a letter of the twenty seventh of February nineteen ninety two which was a letter from the plaintiff 's solicitors to the defendant 's solicitors which , this is been incorporating in the front or ought to be in the bible , erm I do n't think it has been but there are copies if I can hand your Lordship it was missed out in error I am sorry . |
| 7 | And for those whose familiarity with the Irish composer John Field has been but a brief bumble through the simpler of his nocturnes , to hear O'Conor 's enthusiasm is to experience some of the ripple of Field 's remarkable melodic flow . |
| 8 | I 'll come following you He d yeah it was odd when Frank said that cos apparently what happened , he just sort of started saying that he did n't think that Frank had really been there for him and that he was being a bit sort of selfish and stuff which I mean maybe he has been but the thing is if you know if Frank 's making this massive effort to like fit in and meet new people and stuff then |
| 9 | Now that the Spanish race has been and gone , it is a matter of clearing Mansell 's name and it would seem that the evidence offered gave the court food for thought . |
| 10 | The Chancellor said the Conservative Party ‘ never has been and never will be the party of devaluation ’ , and underlined the ‘ paramount need ’ to fight inflation . |
| 11 | Lewes contends that , whereas these gynaecophobic tendencies were from the start challenged by women analysts , the same could not occur in relation to the homophobia of the discipline since homosexuals were systematically excluded from it , with the result that ‘ the psychoanalytic discourse on homosexuality has been and still is formulated by non-homosexuals about homosexuals ’ ( The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality , 21 , 237 — 8 ) . |
| 12 | Thus at a time when Africa needs to industrialize , to create both exports and jobs , a review of the last thirty years shows how difficult this task has been and will be . |
| 13 | First , there always has been and always will be room for a small shopkeeper with a bright idea . |
| 14 | A free spirit has been and gone . |
| 15 | The controversial policy of gassing entire badger populations known to be infected with TB has been and gone , and today two lines of research are being followed . |
| 16 | I wanted to see something of those countries which were so much part of what Europe has been and will become , and which were yet so unknown . |
| 17 | Monitoring of such implementation and enforcement has been and remains insufficient . |
| 18 | MI5 will remain as unaccountable as it always has been and since it blatantly ignored the 1952 directive for over three decades without once being publicly called to account there is no reason to believe that MI5 will be any more law-abiding now . |
| 19 | … a flood which drowns French civilization and carries everything away as debris … a city which is a huge hotel where everyone has been and where no one remembers having seen anyone . |
| 20 | In the field of housing there has been and is likely to continue to be a major growth in housing associations , particularly after provisions are implemented which will allow council tenants to opt out of council control and into housing associations or tenancy with private landlords . |
| 21 | The fact that evaluation has been and continues to be a matter of concern probably reflects the uncertainty amongst librarians of user education methodologies . |
| 22 | Just how much spending has been and will be hit is the talk of the research world in France at the moment . |
| 23 | The Tree Collection , as purchased in 1972 from Tree 's last surviving daughter , the late Lady Cory-Wright , has been and remains of incalculable value to biographers and researchers into Tree 's production and turn-of-the-century staging in general . |
| 24 | An integral part of the removal of barriers between member states has been and remains the implementation of the fundamental principle of Community law that member states should not discriminate against one another and should assimilate the treatment they accord to nationals from other member states to the treatment they accord to their own nationals . |
| 25 | In the two months since the IVA was made , the total debt has been and is continuing to be materially reduced . |
| 26 | Such an attitude is particularly rife in the USA where the youth cult has been and remains strong ( Levin and Levin 1980 ) . |
| 27 | Much more can , has been and should be written about teachers ' collective action , and I am not going to pursue it here . |
| 28 | This study has been and doubtless will continue to be enormously fruitful in many ways , but the question which Troeltsch 's own work so clearly poses needs to be faced . |
| 29 | It is not therefore surprising that Barth 's work has been and continues to be controversial . |
| 30 | It may well be a belief which has been and still is , widely shared by top industrialists themselves . |