Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [noun] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not claim to be comprehensive in what follows , rather my aim has been to assess some of the main features of kin support in the past which have particular relevance to the central theme of this book — how important are duty , obligation and responsibility in motivating the support which people give to their relatives ? |
| 2 | Erm yeah I did mention earlier actually there was one or two ways that you could perhaps help me er one was erm I hope , I 'd like to think that obviously my service has been of value to you erm I 'd also like to think that you can perhaps recommend me to people you know er you did actually mention earlier erm was it Peter you work with , was it |
| 3 | Perhaps its remoteness has been its saving grace , coupled with the fact that by the nineteenth century the Pinney family who had built it deemed it too small and dim to live in and moved to their other house of Racedown , a mile up the road . |
| 4 | Suddenly her preserve has been violated . |
| 5 | It grieves organic farmers like Brian Tustian of Brackley , Northamptonshire , to see how much their produce has been marked up by the time it reaches the shops . |
| 6 | Apparently her aunt had been unaware of the outdoor activities , and instead of being an undeveloped shambles Wilder 's Wilderness had an atmosphere of stability . |
| 7 | If only her father had been there to see it . |
| 8 | I wonder how long its owner has been trailing it up and down the length of England … |
| 9 | If the business has different sections or different sites , you should enquire whether all its employees have been considered for redundancy or whether your particular part of the operation is the only one which has come under scrutiny for cut-backs . |
| 10 | Obviously their kiss had been a mistake and a fiasco from the start , and her own wariness about her naïve feelings for him had rung warning bells in her mind since his first mention of a ‘ private nursing job ’ . |
| 11 | Only their subscribers have been able to watch the races on national television , and this will continue until ABC screen the Cup races themselves , starting on May 9 . |
| 12 | Notice that the program counter has to indicate not only which word has been reached in a program , but also which syllable within the word . |
| 13 | At the opening session on May 3 Anatolijs Gorbunovs , previously the Chairman of the Latvian Supreme Soviet Presidium [ hitherto his name has been given in Keesing 's as Anatoly Gorbunov , its Russian form ] , was elected to the restyled post of Chairman of the Supreme Soviet ( de facto President ) . |
| 14 | For the last quarter of an hour or so his face had been furrowed with the effort of understanding the information with which he had been presented . |
| 15 | He too , it seemed in his more envious moments , could easily have become an officer and a gentleman , if only his father had been as wealthy as Dysart 's , if only he had applied himself to his studies at Commonweal , if only … . |
| 16 | A great deal of very useful research can be carried out wholly from documentary sources of one kind or another , but often social researchers find themselves in a position where they want to investigate social behaviour on which there is very little published research or perhaps what research has been published is not relevant enough to their own particular areas of interest . |
| 17 | In the intervening year , nothing has been done to right the wrongs of the decade , so what profit has been gleaned in the first year of the new leadership of the Conservative party ? |
| 18 | The paraphrase is intended to show not only what referents have been assigned to the anaphors , but also , by using near-synonyms and varying the syntactic structures , what lexical and structural choices have been made . |
| 19 | So our emphasis has been on cost reduction and internal quality issues . |
| 20 | So our support has been subject to redefined guidelines , as you 'd expect from any efficient organisation . |
| 21 | Arsenal 's goalless home draw with negative Ipswich illustrated how badly their confidence has been affected by their strikers ' failure to convert of the strikers to manufacture enough scoring chances — and Graham looks ready to go back to basics . |
| 22 | The cottage the gate belonged to had disappeared , but perversely its gate had been left behind . |
| 23 | On his arrest , O'Shea claimed : ‘ I had to kill her because somehow my body has been infected . |
| 24 | I found myself wondering what exactly my dad had been . |
| 25 | Thus her face had been seen beyond the borders of her home , classroom or relatives ' houses . |
| 26 | Already their numbers had been so diminished by persecution and by unfavourable trading terms in Henry III 's reign that the tallage which they paid annually to the king was less under Edward I than he might gain by seizing their estates and inducing a clerical subsidy by their expulsion . |
| 27 | Of course there had been interrogation sessions in the Lubyanka , but they had been flimsy affairs , for hanging over their progress had been the sword of a man 's release . |
| 28 | Nevertheless their presence has been established by ESR spectroscopy . |
| 29 | PR realistically recognizes that parties provide the only channels through which the political verdict of the electorate can be expressed , that parties are indispensable to the formation of governments , and that what matters most in the outcome of a general election is not which candidates have been elected , but how many of this , that and the other party . |
| 30 | Jennifer 's illness had had its effect on her too ; lately her nerves had been bad and she had n't been sleeping . |