Example sentences of "[indef pn] have be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It seems only appropriate to begin this chapter by establishing the limits of the subject , because not everyone has been in agreement as to where influence ends and control begins .
2 No-one has been on this path for two days . ’
3 The exam educates youngsters cheaply up to a level that is not reached in other countries until someone has been at university for a year .
4 Mr Whinnett said : ‘ I am not a psychiatrist , but if someone has been through a traumatic experience I have to consider that it could happen .
5 Someone had been at the office , of course .
6 It meant at least that someone had been in the burial mound , though not necessarily recently .
7 Someone 's been at this — probably the lickspittle English rock press .
8 Nobody has been through fur twenty-four hours and the telephone to Chilete , the last village before the summit , is out of action .
9 Well probably cos somebody 'd been with them .
10 ‘ Then what made you so sure somebody 'd been in ?
11 It looked as if nobody had been to church that morning and she even began to wonder whether there would be any lunch .
12 Somebody 's been over it with a duster .
13 as a form tutor , somebody 's been on a a a residential weekend
14 Because if somebody 's been on an employer marketing course , and the feel happy about it , they 're more likely to do mor employer visits in one day .
15 You wo n't even know somebody 's been into your houses .
16 As you say , if somebody 's been in there from bloody five o'clock and wants to stay till eleven
17 Yeah somebody 's been in the garage !
18 Should n't we check through the house to be sure nobody 's been in ? ’
19 Nobody 's been in it for ten years .
20 Nobody 's been in them yet .
21 Once one has been to war , one has salt for the rest of one 's life .
22 They share the fact that they have all been of limited duration but , within that framework , one has been concerned with local skills training , four have involved modules contained within honours degree courses ( Typography and Graphic Communication , Library Science , Publishing and Computer Science respectively ) and one has been at postgraduate level .
23 Tennyson then goes onto portray a wonderful quality of desolation and despair in a wasteland where no one has been since the beginning of the world .
24 Proving ignorance of facts that one might or might not have known is impossible , unless one has been in a well-documented coma .
25 I have to admit Mr Graham has a point here , but all I can say is that after one has been in the profession as long as one has , one is able to judge intuitively the depth of a man 's professionalism without having to see it under pressure .
26 This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick .
27 All the way home I was so happy ; everything had been worth while , everything was going to be all right .
28 Apart from that , everything had been in order except for Bonaventure , who had slipped away and had not been seen since .
29 Someone or something had been through the fridge and taken away a few samples of earthling diet — a chilli con carne and a cold lasagne that was probably even now being scoffed by a load of blobs up in the ionosphere .
30 It had been almost the unofficial waste basket papers were dumped there to be kept but no one had been through it carefully for perhaps a century .
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