Example sentences of "have [be] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most influential categorisations of social class , other than those of the OPCS , has been that used by the Oxford Social Mobility Study . |
| 2 | The fact that evaluation has been and continues to be a matter of concern probably reflects the uncertainty amongst librarians of user education methodologies . |
| 3 | It is not therefore surprising that Barth 's work has been and continues to be controversial . |
| 4 | If this is how her work is to be read , then we are of course back with all the problems of the kairos approach : why has history been what it has been and given what history has been what may be said of God 's intention in relation to women ? |
| 5 | Now that the Spanish race has been and gone , it is a matter of clearing Mansell 's name and it would seem that the evidence offered gave the court food for thought . |
| 6 | A free spirit has been and gone . |
| 7 | The controversial policy of gassing entire badger populations known to be infected with TB has been and gone , and today two lines of research are being followed . |
| 8 | The surgeon has been and gone , he reckons death probably took place early in the night ; the coroner has been informed , and the scenes-of-crime chaps are on the job … ’ |
| 9 | The show 's critics have said apart from the racist slur , the Minstrel idea has been and gone . |
| 10 | Monitoring of such implementation and enforcement has been and remains insufficient . |
| 11 | The Tree Collection , as purchased in 1972 from Tree 's last surviving daughter , the late Lady Cory-Wright , has been and remains of incalculable value to biographers and researchers into Tree 's production and turn-of-the-century staging in general . |
| 12 | An integral part of the removal of barriers between member states has been and remains the implementation of the fundamental principle of Community law that member states should not discriminate against one another and should assimilate the treatment they accord to nationals from other member states to the treatment they accord to their own nationals . |
| 13 | Such an attitude is particularly rife in the USA where the youth cult has been and remains strong ( Levin and Levin 1980 ) . |
| 14 | Five former chairmen of the Arts Council , Lord Cottesloe ( 1960–65 ) , Lord Goodman ( 1965–72 ) , Lord Gibson ( 1972–77 ) , Sir Kenneth Robinson ( 1977–82 ) and Lord Rees–Mogg ( 1982–89 ) also wrote to The Times : ‘ It has been and remains the cardinal principle of the Arts Council since its formation , that the arts should be immunised from political control ’ . |
| 15 | Partnership has been and remains the characteristic of successful innovation . |
| 16 | There can be no doubt whatever about the validity of this method , and no doubt either that its description has been and remains a matter of controversy , or of several controversies . |
| 17 | The HP4 requirement has been or has the potential to be met without further Green Belt loss . |
| 18 | The pattern of our recent frames has been as followed . |
| 19 | The progression has been as follows : Hampshire Bus was sold to Stagecoach for £2 1 million . |
| 20 | Progress on other sections of route has been as follows : |
| 21 | Progress on other sections of route has been as follows : |
| 22 | They 'd never know that we 'd been and gone . |
| 23 | Now he 'd been and gone and done it . |
| 24 | They 'd been and looked at a few and there , |
| 25 | ‘ Because I was convinced you 'd been as shaken , as moved , by our lovemaking as I , initially it threw me . |
| 26 | It follows , then , that an evolutionary argument must attempt to establish exactly what the continuity may have been that led from the level of the higher animals to that of Man . |
| 27 | Under such an arrangement the electoral system in East Germany would have been that used in March for the elections to the Volkskammer ( East German unicameral parliament — see pp. 37300-02 ) . |
| 28 | In a sense it is all too easy in retrospect to see what it must have been that hurried Elizabeth to that early grave . |
| 29 | Camille knew that it could have been but understood that Sam was putting dinner off until the last possible moment in case the boy from the bistro turned up , breathless and apologetic , because his motorbike had broken down and he 'd had to walk . |
| 30 | The flower-plots represent the colour that could have been but have been taken over by a dull shade of moss . |