Example sentences of "[adv] they have be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one even knows how long they 've been here . |
| 2 | Following the usual exchanges I enquired how long they 'd been there . |
| 3 | Around the the the shop so , obviously they 'd been either been casting brass , at some time or other . |
| 4 | So they had been theoretically rehabilitated , set at liberty — some mere shells after interrogations as fearful as one 's most perverted imaginings might devise — only to be pulled in again just as their taut nerves had said , yes , they were free of the cord . |
| 5 | So they 've been here a long long while . |
| 6 | so they have been very useful for giving extra pressure on the farm 's subsoiler and home-made 3.6m ( 12ft ) pasture aerator . |
| 7 | Normally they 've been pretty good . |
| 8 | Just now they had been utterly careless about the noise they made in the hay . |
| 9 | Perhaps by now they had been totally cowed . ) |
| 10 | Despite being so ubiquitous , until now they 've been solely a male preserve . |
| 11 | Up to now they have been well looked after by the Pakistan government and established in villages of 50,000 to 60,000 people . |
| 12 | It is also how one must determine whether others have acted well or not , so far as externals go , though how far they have acted well in a proper inward sense , that is , how far they have been truly guided by the categorical imperative , rather than by the calculations of self interest , is hidden away in the depths of their being , hidden perhaps even from themselves . |
| 13 | " Gabon is specially significant because it probably now has more elephants than any other African country , and so far they have been relatively undisturbed by poachers . |
| 14 | Well they 've been very direct and they 've been having to make me think a lot about what I 'm doing . |
| 15 | A quarter of an hour ago they had been more than a little discontented . |
| 16 | Unfortunately they have been badly served by their publisher . |
| 17 | but erm yes the garden 's alright but then they 've been there in the garden all the winter as well |
| 18 | Close-to and without their performance wigs , these two hardly seemed to connect with anyone that she 'd seen out on the stage less than an hour before ; then they 'd been all front , carnival vamps , not so much real human beings as fantasy figures with hidden human operators . |
| 19 | Since then they have been both warmer and colder , with oscillations of the order of 1–2°C about annual mean temperatures . |
| 20 | Lord Joseph ( as Secretary of State , Sir Keith ) saw to it that there should be more parents on the governing bodies of schools ; and since then they have been more and more frequently invoked . |
| 21 | Yet this is twice they 've been here — first last Spring , and now for the New Year party . ’ |
| 22 | Two misfits together , he had confided to his parents ; yet they had been extremely successful . |
| 23 | It is reasonable to assume that such changes have significant social and economic effects , yet they have been conspicuously neglected by social scientists . |
| 24 | I 've always found the men that I 've worked with either it has made no difference that I was a woman so far as I was aware , or else they 've been very helpful . |
| 25 | Although councils have often been appointed to sit on the boards , more recently they have been more open to direct local authority involvement : in the case of Sheffield in 1988 , for example , there was a substantial degree of negotiation over representation from the start . |
| 26 | The authors quoted above , Brewer and Hills , stated that ‘ It is significant that there are few references to evaluation in the literature of reader instruction and until very recently they have been virtually non-existent ’ . |