Example sentences of "have been [det] " in BNC.

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1 Encounters have been all the rage of this Italian election campaign — only the 12th since the republic 's first in 1948 .
2 Rovers have made enormous strides in the past 14 months and we were totally committed today — as we have been all season . ’
3 BEATRIX : You ca n't , so long as you remain as pig-headed as you have been all your life .
4 When I get back Lucker wonders where I have been all night .
5 ‘ If you mean drugs , then no , Adam , you 're way off line and you have been all the time — as you 'd realise for yourself if you 'd just open your eyes and see the truth instead of what you want to see . ’
6 We 're all on air , we have been all morning
7 This paper has largely been limited to the processes within education — the ways they have been part of a wider process of economic and political domination have been little more than hinted at .
8 — is not it clear that Government policies on manufacturing industry have been little short of disastrous ?
9 I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth .
10 Seasoned media watchers have been much concerned with Richard Ingrams of late .
11 The far bigger prehistoric apes must have found it much harder and therefore have been much more terrestrial .
12 Neo-classical economists have been much preoccupied with exploring the conditions under which market coordination leads to the ‘ best ’ or ‘ socially optimal ’ allocation of resources .
13 The budget problems of the South Wales police have been much in the news .
14 There have been many books written about improvisation and if I were asked to choose just one it would be Keith Johnston 's Impro which is straightforward , understandable , and theatrically aware .
15 Attempts to change the system — and there have been many — have always foundered on an unwillingness to abandon the gold standard of British education .
16 There have been many Western and Soviet studies of religious belief per se , and of the interaction in Soviet history between an atheist regime and a highly religious peasantry , but scant reference is made to socio-economic views and actions derived from religion that had ultimate political repercussions .
17 There have been many examples of long , classic singles , like ‘ Eloise ’ , ‘ McCarthur Park ’ and ‘ American pie ’ .
18 There have been many claims that Mrs Thatcher has shifted the agenda of British politics .
19 In the fifty years since the TA was last called up for war there have been many changes .
20 There have been many meetings and there are many programmes under discussion .
21 There have been many attempts to explain Baldwin 's 1929 election programme .
22 There were many then and there have been many since who believed the Rosenbergs were victims of an FBI frame-up but the American people were baying for scapegoats , not least for the grave reverses in Korea .
23 There have been many wars here .
24 Although there have been many marvellous performances that have meant a great deal to me , the most important to me , without doubt , was the only time I heard my first teacher sing .
25 Since he became leader , there have been many other occasions when his reluctance or inability to get through his homework have let him down and embarrassed his party .
26 Dr Margaret O'Brien , a chartered psychologist at East London Polytechnic and author of The New Man , told the conference : ‘ Though there have been many changes in family life over the century , it is surprising to discover that children seem to have such a traditional view . ’
27 Captain Pugwash is probably his best-known character but there have been many others : Harris Tweed , Lettice Leefe , Mary , Mungo and Midge , Sir Prancelot , and Cardinal Grotti in the Catholic Herald .
28 Over the past few years there have been many reports in the national press advocating that all dwellings should be fitted with smoke detectors .
29 Few people find Anselm a serious contender for proving the existence of God , although there have been many philosophers who have rightly observed , as we have tried to do , that the logic of existence requires careful consideration .
30 There have been many volumes written on the Cotswold wool trade but comparatively little ever said about the silk industry .
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