Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] has be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it has been with other countries of immigration — the immigrants embraced a new nationality with , if the nationalist fictions are to be believed , unseemly eagerness . |
| 2 | So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times . |
| 3 | ‘ Pion is only fourteen months old and already he has been to Alaska . ’ |
| 4 | Since he was pulled from under a pile of 40 bodies over three years ago he has been in a coma , unlikely ever to recover . |
| 5 | That is how it has been in the past , we have never been friends , and perhaps it has been altogether my fault . |
| 6 | Since then he has been in charge at Plymouth , Crystal Palace , Manchester City and Middlesbrough as well as managing abroad . |
| 7 | He is a fair-minded bloke on occasions — at least he has been to me . |
| 8 | Mrs Grant has decided to stand down from HIE , where she has been on the board since its inception two years ago , because of increasing work commitments . |
| 9 | Julian Le Bas Landscapes Bede Gallery , Springwell Park , Jarrow , until March 20 I AM delighted to discover that Newcastle Polytechnic 's long-time art historian Alf Corlett is alive and well and living in well-earned retirement in East Sussex , where he has been on the look-out as a talent spotter for the Bede Gallery . |
| 10 | I do not know where he has been for the past few years , but we have reduced the rates on lower earnings so that people now pay on average about £3 a week less in national insurance . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't believe it , ’ he said from Washington , where he has been with England for the US Cup games . |
| 12 | Named after the mansion in Wuthering Heights , this is a desolate agricultural commune run by Jimmy Ahmed , back from London , where he has been in some vague way a celebrity . |
| 13 | It is actively seeking to extend its network : currently it has been in discussion with firms in Austria , Greece , Italy , Spain and South Africa . |