Example sentences of "have [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They first went to The Hitman in Blackpool after seeing one on TV and have since been to at least 10 of the shows . |
| 2 | But these have mostly been of rather limited significance ( one concerned the supply of taxi cabs at Brighton station ) ; see Utton ( 1992 ) for a review . |
| 3 | I 'd agree — While it 's great to see 2 away wins up , we have n't beaten any of the ‘ classy ’ teams yet … our wins have mostly been over the lower teams … which brings us to Wimbledon this week . |
| 4 | Slim women — or those who have successfully been on a diet — often feel deeply disheartened by the fact that diet and exercise alone do not seem to improve these problem areas . |
| 5 | The differences have rarely been about content . |
| 6 | Investors on Wall Street have rarely been in such an uncertain state — which means big money is about to be lost and won |
| 7 | This is a much older problem and one which precedes the rise of environmentalism , because in addition to the environmental lobby the exclusive rights of the farmer have long been under threat from another source — the massed ranks of the urban population , intent on using the countryside as a source of recreation and determined to gain access to what they consider to be semi-public territory . |
| 8 | These halfway conditions have long been of interest , though until recently mainly among psychoanalysts or other writers outside mainstream psychiatry . |
| 9 | These are questions that have long been of concern . |
| 10 | Chinese rugs have long been in tune with Western colour schemes , and a growing number of Anatolian groups are now producing traditional and Caucasian designs in much softer shades . |
| 11 | Certainly the phrases " the Bleiburg Massacre " and " the Bleiburg Tragedy " have long been in currency , and have been used by historians sympathetic to the Croats such as Prcela and Guldescu in Operation slaughterhouse : Eyewitness Accounts of Post-war Massacres in Yugoslavia ( Dorrance , 1970 ) . |
| 12 | I rarely speak or am active on guillotine motions and resulting business arrangements on timing , because in general I have long been in favour of timetabling all Bills from the start . |
| 13 | financial services have long been among the heaviest users of search ; Michael Brookes at Nomura referred to 20 major assignments in less than three years with many more slightly lower-level searches . |
| 14 | Last capped against Fiji in Suva more than four years ago , he has made only eight England appearances — and his four Five Nations games have all been as a replacement . |
| 15 | Now , the much-repeated phrase is : ‘ The past 40 years have all been for nought ’ . |
| 16 | We have all been to school , and many have children at school . |
| 17 | ‘ Alexander , Michael and now William ( 2¾ ) have all been to the art class , and I 've found it encourages their imagination and creativity . |
| 18 | To date , new services have all been on lines owned by Rail Freight — so they currently pay infrastructure costs which would otherwise fall to county councils . ’ |
| 19 | Governments , military strategists , thousands of scientists , millions of dollars of time and research budgets have all been on a wild goose chase . |
| 20 | Ian Lloyd Jones , Chris Jex , C. Allen and R. Wright have all been at work in the Llanberis slate quarries , although their findings are rather too numerous to record in detail . |
| 21 | My previous relationships have all been with women I 've been able to like and respect at the same time as I 've desired them . ’ |
| 22 | They share the fact that they have all been of limited duration but , within that framework , one has been concerned with local skills training , four have involved modules contained within honours degree courses ( Typography and Graphic Communication , Library Science , Publishing and Computer Science respectively ) and one has been at postgraduate level . |
| 23 | I should say that these errors have all been without exception quite trivial in themselves . |
| 24 | For those white English women who are still in doubt , hear this … we are all over here because you have all been over there . |
| 25 | Several case reports of severe liver damage , some with encephalopathy resembling Reye 's syndrome , have been reported with aspirin usage but these have all been in children . |
| 26 | Finally , good wishes for a quick return to health to Audrey Foster , Hilda Lodge and Doris Patten , who have all been in hospital . |
| 27 | InterCity has its own clear identity , though the greatest achievements have perhaps been with Network SouthEast , where the tide has really turned , and in Provincial with its own increasing network of imaginative expresses often resulting from stringing several services together . |
| 28 | Consequently such services have only been under the administration of health authorities for a short while . |
| 29 | If we have only been on cover for a short time and it is clear that the majority of the damage occurred before we came on cover , the claim should be referred to the previous insurers . |
| 30 | Struggling to make himself heard above the chants of the crowd , the manager said : ‘ I have only been on Teesside for ten months , but thank you for making it memorable so far . |