Example sentences of "[adj] have be [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been so for decades and there is little on the horizon that threatens to curtail it . |
| 2 | This has been so for centuries , and afflicts all nations . |
| 3 | One of its themes will have to be the confusion in our morality that the epidemic has exposed , and this has been much in evidence in the past few days in response to the ludicrous concert in commemoration of Freddie Mercury , and then the renewal of the controversial theory that Aids may not be linked to HIV at all , but instead , to cite one example , to promiscuous sexual activity that reputedly attacks the immune system . |
| 4 | This had been so in Emma 's day , and was so still , for once or twice Ruth had asked Rachaela some arithmetical question which Rachaela also found impossible to answer . |
| 5 | At the beginning of the century , Dudo of St Quentin produced the argument that , since the homage of Duke Rollo of Normandy in 911 had been purely in gratitude for his baptism , it did not mean , either for himself or for his successors , that Normandy was a fief . |
| 6 | These have been here for months |
| 7 | The boy was almost sure to have been home at intervals , if only for a change of clothing . |