Example sentences of "have be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where formed by divergent plate movement they are described as rifted margins , but where the motion between two adjacent continental blocks has been transform they are called sheared margins ( but note that the term rifted margin is often applied rather loosely to passive margins of any type ) . |
| 2 | Time and again it has been cinema which has pushed forward the bounds of public acceptability of controversial images and ideas , to be followed by television rather slowly . |
| 3 | Ever since the time of Jean-Jacques Rousseau there has been art whose aim has been the renewal of society , but it has had no effect beyond that of producing testimonials ( even if controversial ones ) of what we call the ‘ real ’ world , in contrast perhaps with the unreal world of art . |
| 4 | Britain 's premier clubs has been doings its own campaigning on a very different manifesto — and very successful it has been , too . |
| 5 | Given our general theme , that it has been attitudes which determine methods , it is perhaps not surprising for the reader to discover that the amount of research on the effects of the systems of signing is very small indeed . |
| 6 | Those who forget the virtues of solidarity in order to protest against the downgrading of individual agency might recall that it has been intellectuals who have been most prone to inflate the significance of individuals — particularly intellectuals — to the same degree that their theories propose universal categories and claim universal effects . |
| 7 | Ever since there has been Christmas there have been complaints that it has become over-commercialised . |
| 8 | The letter from Mr. Roper in the March issue of the Record claims that in many authorities it has been staff themselves who have initiated the blacking of News International newspapers . |
| 9 | Well in the main lobbyist has been Ron who 's the who 's our elected campaigns officers and he 's quite literally been spending time treading the the hallowed halls of Westminster |
| 10 | James has been kindness itself all day . |
| 11 | There has been research which suggests that moderately strong automatic stemming can be applied in specialized online reference retrieval searching . |
| 12 | Guido released her and stepped away , and where there 'd been warmth there was suddenly coldness . |
| 13 | I 'd always wanted to be a comedian at school , I 've always been obsessive about comedy , and if I 'd been rubbish it would have been a bit problematic . ’ |
| 14 | When he 'd appeared with her breakfast Penry Vaughan had been reasonably friendly — and in the middle of the night he 'd been kindness itself after her nightmare . |
| 15 | Where such ideas ultimately came from and what practical consequences they have had are questions which , on the whole , I have preferred to avoid . |
| 16 | It may actually have been Gandhi who was responsible for his optimism about this . |
| 17 | Choreographers must have been dancers themselves if they are to understand and feel the natural abilities of the body and to allow fur the influence of the techniques in which they have been trained . |
| 18 | That must have been Lee who 'd put it there . |
| 19 | It could have been Darwin himself who introduced Dr Benjamin Bynoe , the Beagle 's surgeon , to Gould . |
| 20 | It was therefore natural that it should have been Braque who solved the present problem , largely a technical one , of finding a new , easier means of representing the new concepts of pictorial form and space in all their fullness and complexity . |
| 21 | This was particularly sad , considering that it must have been Walpole whom she idolized and wanted to imitate , for it was he who built Strawberry Hill . |
| 22 | I 'm slightly concerned about this because it said that other matters erm we do n't know what other matters until the inspector has been in , in June and has identified those other matters , presumably when we get the further inspector 's report next Autumn or after June , it will address issues which may have been ones he has addressed this year and maybe not , er and we will have to look at that inspector 's report when we receive it . |
| 23 | It could have been spinach she was refusing . |
| 24 | In theory the task should have been simplicity itself . |
| 25 | Since also the percentage of assessments below £3 was much the same in Sussex as in Norfolk and Berkshire , a good many farm workers there might have been cottagers who had their own plots of land . |
| 26 | And I think I , I would just needed to say the word and I could have been Provost myself but I did n't really feel that I would be able to control the council , I think that was my impression at this . |
| 27 | There 's also a general view in the community that community care itself is not necessarily really working very well , there 's some fears about it , some uncertainties and a member did mention , it may have been Jim you know or somebody mentioned about the seven hours domiciliary , from my experience as a councillor I am not sure that simply because that figure exists that that means that that is satisfying the need of those people and in any case the sort of people who need to go into residential care , who can no longer be maintained in their home , with whatever help we give them or with whatever help their family have to give them they 're not necessarily the sort of people who we 're talking about need to go in a home . |
| 28 | Yes , it could still have been Tutilo who finished what Jerome had begun . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Could n't have been Erdle she saw , ’ replied Iris . |
| 30 | So there could have been conversation I did n't pick up — scrambled by the radio . ’ |