Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] have [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1930s Auden & Co. had been another ; with Auden himself , as early as his undergraduate days at Oxford in the late 1920s , confidently apportioning literary roles to Isherwood , Spender and himself . |
| 2 | The despised belletrist criticism of an earlier day could make radical judgements in an off-hand manner ; those articles , for instance , with titles like ‘ On Rereading Stendhal ’ , which come to the conclusion that Stendhal has been much overrated . |
| 3 | Mandru had been away on business for much of the time since Lucien had arrived , so performances had been few . |
| 4 | Neither husband nor daughter had been any help . |
| 5 | Then the doctrine common to all ages and nations had been that insolvency was a crime , and that the debtor might be properly made to pay in person the penalty for his offence . |
| 6 | If Whizzo had been any good Jazz could have transferred but Biddy , having given Whizzo the thumbs down , had found him a good home with a nervous lady in the suburbs and he was no longer available . |
| 7 | B.1.1 put the Purchaser into the position which would have existed had such matter been as so warranted , represented or undertaken by paying to the Purchaser a sum equal to the amount by which the value or amount at Completion of any assets or liabilities of the Business ( computed for this purpose on the basis that full provision was made for the facts and circumstances in relation to which such breach arose ) was less or ( as the case may be ) more than the value or amount at Completion of such assets or liabilities ( computed on the assumption that the facts and circumstances had been such as to involve no such breach ) together with all costs and expenses incurred or any other loss or damage suffered by the Purchaser as a result of such breach ; or ( if the Purchaser shall so elect ) . |
| 8 | ‘ If Dobson had been any more seriously injured you 'd have found yourself in a cell by now . ’ |
| 9 | Like the other playwrights whose response to Thatcherism and brutality has been some hand-wringing of their own , Barker is too infatuated by his heroine 's strength to humanise her withe vulnerability and too in awe of her for a passionate or coolly detached opposition . |
| 10 | However , it should be noted that the demands of the National Curriculum , assessment and LMS have been such as to require the Authority to maintain at least as high a centralized INSET profile as previously , and present provision retains , alongside the new agenda of concerns dictated by the 1988 Education Reform Act ( ERA ) , many of the courses and themes established during the PNP period . |
| 11 | And if Jack had been such another he would have thanked Charlie for his unstinted friendship , his generous loans , his hospitality and for bringing him Marilyn Thompson . |
| 12 | If Frankenstein had been some sort of intelligent creepy-crawly , Ace thought , that 's the kind of monster he 'd have built . |
| 13 | She should have known she was ill , got a doctor to see her earlier , not waited until the bronchitis had turned to pneumonia , so that none of their injections and treatment had been any good . |
| 14 | And if Thomas had been any older I do n't know quite how I would have explained it to him . |
| 15 | After a while I thought that as Dateline had been such a success the first time why not have some fun and do it again ? |
| 16 | There is a danger in indulging in too great a diversity of material and outlook and , as biogeographers have been few in number , diversity could lead to the continuing omission of the study of the impact of human activity . |
| 17 | ‘ You will be Church of England , ’ said Willie Hamilton , as though Paul had been another species . |