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

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1 Nevertheless , although it is easy to see why the thrust of the arguments has throughout been to concentrate on the charging of the suspect and ( in the light of Ex parte Saunders ) on the association of a renewed caution with any exercise of the Director 's powers where the person under interrogation has already been charged , I believe that the result has been to set the inquiry off in the wrong direction .
2 It is necessary first to consider an argument which has throughout been presented by the Attorney-General as decisive ; namely , that the answer to this question must inevitably be negative because the district judge had no power , or no power that he could properly exercise , to do anything other than proceed with the cases assigned to his court , without any regard at all to the pendency of the B.M.F.L. prosecution , destined for committal to the High Court .
3 Since , as has throughout been common ground , the defendants were not at liberty to divulge to others information acquired as agents for Mr. Brant , the defendants could not tell the plaintiff the true position without breaching their duty to Mr. Brant .
4 It has throughout been common ground that the benefit in this case to each taxpayer is that ‘ his son is allowed to participate in all the facilities afforded by the school to boys who are educated there . ’
5 Ah yes , well you see , you see , in effect if you called her an old , that could 've been , that , that , that , that , that , that , that could 've been eh , that could 've been eh , that could 've been , you know , you could 've been given her a , that could 've of been a praise , you old cow .
6 I mean , what if her car had of been broke into .
7 You seem more tired than if you had of been a really hard day .
8 She said er it makes me wonder if I 'd left my purse in the car if it had of been our car that might have been dumped .
9 I mean , if it had of been smaller .
10 If only that had of been a grey or a cream
11 I mean that sort of yo er yo er , although , really you want them to see that cos they know what it 's about then , then they 'll read that , but , it would have been nice if that had of been darker
12 Steel-Maitland could at last be moved from the Ministry of Labour , which had in many ways been the key departmental post of the administration , and in which he had throughout been ill-regarded but undisturbed .
13 Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth .
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