Example sentences of "have [be] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well where was I ? , oh , must 've been when I went to the loo Have you had a drink Martin ? |
| 2 | Until quite recently the outstanding problem with many recordings of music before 1600 has been that they reveal the lack of tradition behind their vocal and instrumental practice and therefore suffer from an inevitable slide towards solipsism . |
| 3 | One of the major criticisms of these previous theories has been that they have tended to see their subject matter ( that is , rule-breaking ) as straightforward and easily identifiable — crime being behaviour that breaks certain of the rules of society . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ The strength of my country in recent years has been that we have had no coalition , just clear leadership , a clear majority and clear decisions . |
| 5 | Du Cann 's fundamental problem has been that he wanted to be seen as cross between a Tory grandee and country squire . |
| 6 | Since then he has been seen by the right-wing as Maggie 's prince-in-waiting , but his skill has been that he has remained very much in favour with the Major Government where his ability and amiability won him respect . |
| 7 | As I shall seek to argue , the opportunity was there ; and the Home Secretary 's failure has been that he did not grasp it . |
| 8 | The consensus of modern liberal thinking has been that it does not ; it has preferred to stress the " inherently pluralistic and diverse " nature of modern societies , and the consequent need to reach a consensus or compromise among the various competing interests and groups within society . |
| 9 | But the most important flaw in the instruction has been that it has been too often divorced from the classroom itself and from the active involvement of the teacher . |
| 10 | According to Carl Chilley , principal business services consultant , the problem with distributed computing has been that it has encouraged the development of technology for technology 's sake , without real thought as to how to implement it effectively in a business environment . |
| 11 | This proved to be a fateful oversight since one of the most devastating criticisms to be levelled at Keynesian macroeconomics in recent years has been that it has such shaky foundations in microeconomics . |
| 12 | For the Governor , though , the main benefit has been that it gives prison officers ‘ permission to be concerned ’ in a structured and consistent way . |
| 13 | A disadvantage of team teaching , of course , has been that it required the teacher , normally an individualistic person accustomed to complete authority within the four walls of his classroom , to sink his authority and his subject speciality within a group . |
| 14 | One of the criticisms levelled at the board has been that it fails to consult properly or listen to objections to proposals . |
| 15 | One of the difficulties that results from these cuts and that tax has been that there had been so numerous that it ca n't keep count of how many times they 'd changed the goal posts , how many times they imposed cuts , but you know a lot of the government 's ideas are that it 's money , money , money , but it 's not all financial , it 's been physical and mental . |
| 16 | He 's always been surrounded by people who think everything else he does is marvellous , but one of the points of our relationship has been that I 've always criticised his work , and for me those double portraits of the Seventies came perilously close to Photo-Realism . ’ |
| 17 | CONSIDERING the vast worldwide market that exists for sexual material of all kinds , it is remarkable just how bad mainstream cinema has been when it comes to portraying sexual passion . |
| 18 | Refuses to say where he has been and what has happened : must protect perfection of his dreamlike adventure . |
| 19 | Once he had hit her so hard when she would n't tell him where she 'd been that she had had concussion . |
| 20 | ‘ Have you any idea where she 'd been before she phoned ? ’ |
| 21 | I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London . |
| 22 | We want to know the lot , where you 'd been and what time you left him . ’ |
| 23 | Sometimes he was angry as he 'd been when they had fought . |
| 24 | The cold of the night was deepening and I was weaker than I 'd been when I set out . |
| 25 | And she seemed flustered when I demanded to know where she 'd been when I 'd been gassed right next to the ship . |
| 26 | As she listened to Amsterdam she became more sure by the minute that Timothy was n't quite the same as he 'd been when he had left the house that morning . |
| 27 | Yes , we have , mm , but I suppose I 'd been because I do n't want the bother of , yes . |
| 28 | The suggestion I 've had is that we have got held in the budgets erm land acquisition , I mean it may be that we actually pool this the , the new land acquisition after the centenary , which might be erm a way of recognizing the centenary of the , of the parish council . |
| 29 | Well there might have been that nobody knew about , I do n't know . |
| 30 | Or , perhaps , it may have been that she had married him . |