Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Kirkpatrick has most recently been with Mercury Books as marketing director , from where , it is thought , he was headhunted for the Berlitz job . |
| 2 | Our work so far has obviously only been of a preliminary nature , but even so it is clear that there are many strands in the concept of participation and public involvement in decision-making related to novel energy systems . |
| 3 | Much of the focus has so far been on integration , instigated predominantly by non-Disabled people , as a mean for all sections of the community to be involved on an equal basis , in a way which does not differentiate between the intention of this approach is genuine , in practice it often transmutes into another form of exclusion and discrimination . |
| 4 | This account has so far been in partial equilibrium terms . |
| 5 | Rather , we fear what has not previously been within the realms of our experience : the unknown , or what could be . |
| 6 | It should be pointed out that the decline has not just been in evidence under the Conservative government , but was also apparent before 1979 , although it has accelerated subsequently . |
| 7 | Despite his hot streak of goals , Quinn has not yet been on the winning side for the Sky Blues and now he wants to put that unwanted record in the dustbin . |
| 8 | With regard to your letter of 17 April this year on the subject of the above tape , your colleague Mr Muraki has not yet been in touch with us . |
| 9 | In America , Turner shares management with Greenwich Village songstress Suzanne Vega , a factor which he feels has not entirely been in his favour . |
| 10 | But it has not always been like this . |
| 11 | In China , criticism of the bureaucracy has generally not been through formal representative assemblies , councils and congresses but through ‘ mass campaigns ’ , though the direction of influence has tended to be from the party leadership to the masses through propaganda , political education and mobilization exercises rather than from the masses upwards . |
| 12 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 13 | Instead , where disorder has occurred , it has more often been between the police and a faction or factions within the demonstration itself . |
| 14 | And now he 's made Big Ben and he has n't even been to London to see it . |
| 15 | Captain Parcell has n't always been in the army . |
| 16 | The focus has almost always been on the North Sea , although between 1965 and 1973 eight distant-water freezer trawlers belonging to Ranger Fisheries , a subsidiary of P and O , were based in the port . |
| 17 | I am afraid that it has not been a success and that has certainly not been for want of effort from him but I think we just have to write that one off . |
| 18 | The attitude of outside well-wishers has too often been like that of a left-wing friend of mine who asked in the early days of the Grunwick strike ‘ Who is doing the organising there ? ’ — as though the workers were just so much raw material waiting to be organised . |
| 19 | But Carla has denied ever having an affair with Mick and says she has never even been to Thailand . |
| 20 | ‘ There is a feeling now of cooperation which has never ever been in our system at this level before . |
| 21 | Although the map has very possibly been at Hereford since the later middle ages , and certainly since 1682 , Hereford has an inconspicuous place on it and then in the abbreviated form H'ford . |
| 22 | Coming from someone who 'd obviously never been in the right frame of mind magnetically to attach anything but his salary to himself — money Anwar always referred to as ‘ unearned income ’ — this seemed a bit rich . |
| 23 | He 'd probably never been to Brixton before — I could tell that from the way he was sinking down in the back of Armstrong the farther along Effra Road we got . |
| 24 | I 'd never even been on a train until I was past thirty and if you recall that was no joy-ride , simply a mercy dash to get Renée out of one of her scrapes . ’ |
| 25 | I 'd never even been to her house . |
| 26 | He went across to it , still thinking that it was n't too late to back out and close the door behind him and pretend that he 'd never even been in here . |
| 27 | I 'd never even been in a car until I was twenty … |
| 28 | She 'd never even been in love , she thought wistfully , was beginning to think herself incapable of the emotion , or that her standards were too high — or impossible . |
| 29 | Erm because I 'd never actually been in the flats before . |
| 30 | ‘ The funniest request I have had so far is for a birthday cake which is made to look like a plate of steak and chips with cutlery on a tabletop setting . ’ |