Example sentences of "have be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Now if , if you accept the ten percent owning the eighty percent , there must 've been enough but the poor are not getting it .
2 Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ?
3 Erm so in actual fact we 'd 've been there or thereabouts had we not made the budget assumptions that we did .
4 When so large a part of modern politics , above all in America , is concerned with policies which an insight into the psychology of envy would reveal to be inherently futile , it is perhaps not surprising that the study of that psychology has been instinctively or deliberately neglected .
5 Yet another relevant ideology , which infects judges , governments and the general public in greater or lesser degrees at different times , is the ideology of law and order , which has been notably and provocatively analysed by the Marxist theorist Stuart Hall ( 1979 , 1990 ; Hall et al. , 1979 ) .
6 In past decades the roof void in most houses has been just that : a black , dusty hole in which to dump unused goods out of sight .
7 The tournament has been well and truly annexed by the British for the past four years , and the form book still favours a non-American winner this time .
8 Now , in our classless society , it has been well and truly democratised .
9 Christ 's message of peace and goodwill to all men has been well and truly eclipsed by today 's stars .
10 But by the time crime categories or definitions have been established , the most important foundation stone of ‘ our crime problem ’ has been well and truly buried in cement , beyond the reach of any liberal ‘ scientific ’ shovel .
11 This is an area in which young people 's enthusiasm has been well and truly aroused at school .
12 However , the development of Australian unions has been markedly and uniquely influenced by the institutional support given to them by the federal arbitration system which has long played a fundamental role in wage-determination and the settlement of disputes ( see Chapter 5 ) .
13 Like other infant sciences , the science of international politics has been markedly and frankly utopian .
14 I believe that the Bill , as it goes to another place , has been properly and fully scrutinised on Second Reading and in Committee — as will be shown in Hansard .
15 The so this alleyway has been here since at least sixteen ninety , probably rather earlier when the house began to go down the drain as it were , down the plughole .
16 ‘ Someone has been here and fairly recently . ’
17 This year just under 100 students will receive their first degrees at Stirling and Chief Careers Advisor Walter Abbott , who retires this summer , can look back and take pride in the fact that he and his small team in the careers office have had the opportunity to help prepare 16,000 students for ‘ life after Uni ’ during the 24 years that Walter has been here and seen the University grow .
18 The rational expectations hypothesis challenges macroeconomists of widely differing outlook to re-examine the short-run dynamics of their respective models so as to check that no assumption of irrational behaviour has been implicitly or inadvertently embedded within the structure of the model .
19 In game shooting , some people consistently shoot badly because they always shoot at where the bird has been rather than where it has got to .
20 and er , I get on the courses is the fact that that is very good attendance sort of thing for you to see T N T Express has been rather than a depot .
21 The keep , which is 120 feet high , has been slowly and accurately restored in recent years , but the rest of the castle is a shell , with the outlines of the rooms that ran inwards from the walls alone visible and a single stairway up one of the buttresses on to the crumbling battlements .
22 In past centuries , when few statutes were enacted , common law constituted the main body of English law ; today , it has been largely but not wholly displaced by statute law .
23 To suppose that this century can fix the definition of democracy or , even more arrogantly , that it is in this century that democracy has been finally and definitively realized , is to be blind not only to the probabilities of the future but also to the certainties of the past .
24 The prolific contemporary literature about Mary , which has been extensively and effectively reviewed by J. E. Phillips , Images of a Queen , was all understandable enough .
25 The notion of the fabliau being a form of linguistic game is one that has been extensively and productively explored in relatively recent scholarship .
26 In short , if agriculture is judged by the criteria of performance applied to manufacturing industry , there is every reason to argue that its output has been artificially and substantially inflated for the whole period since 1950 .
27 The ridged and tufted counterpane has been carefully and frequently laundered .
28 The first question begs many others — but those of us who are familiar with some of the history of the disabled people 's movement will recognise that today 's ‘ disability professionals ’ are on a career path which has been carefully and painstakingly carved out by generations of their predecessors .
29 It is at this ‘ point-of-sale ’ that consumers make their choice , a subject which has been carefully and extensively researched by Stoddard Templeton .
30 This simple rule , embodied in the Rights of Way Act , which on its wording at least applies to ways by water as well as land , states that to recognize a way as public one needs only to show that it has been freely and openly used by the public for 20 years .
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