Example sentences of "[ex0] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So check thoroughly-there is no point in our going further to describe how small adjustments on the connecting ring can affect performance when the bridle loops to the leading edge are allowed to slide out of position ! |
| 2 | When we were first warned , I did n't really pay much attention to what was being said about it — the same problem had flared up at both Jersey House and the hotel I 'd just left but in neither case had there been prolonged cause for concern . |
| 3 | Had BR had more time and more funding , had the government been more sympathetic towards the railway investment and had there been no recession , the APT might have eventually been successful — but that is another story . |
| 4 | Has there been such a restoration , since 1920 ? |
| 5 | Never before had there been so savage a fiscal squeeze ; not since the thirties had there been a comparable increase in unemployment , now approaching 3 million . |
| 6 | Never before had there been so savage a fiscal squeeze ; not since the thirties had there been a comparable increase in unemployment , now approaching 3 million . |
| 7 | You may ask me then : ‘ Why do n't we do just that ? why has there been this passionate search for some other method of preventing the fall in the value of money or controlling the fall in the value of money , if a cause and perhaps the major cause is undisputed , assessable and obvious ? ’ |
| 8 | Nor had there been any sort of cultural rethink sufficient to justify the confidence American companies were now placing in British filmmakers . |
| 9 | Only now has there been a concerted effort to abandon the tyranny of the object and the sickness of naturalism to enter within consciousness . ’ |
| 10 | Has there been anyone , Lillee or Holding or Marshall to match him since ? |
| 11 | Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it . |
| 12 | Never before has there been such open abuse of power by those who are supposed to set standards for the people . |
| 13 | Nor has there been any direct challenge to the chairman . |
| 14 | One senior official of the European Commission said recently that , had there been a common Community defence policy , it would have committed forces to the Gulf . |
| 15 | There was naturally much rejoicing in Britain that the worm was turning in 1989–90 , but there would have been more had there been a spinner or two in the team . |
| 16 | Nor had there been any talk of her — that she looked ill , or had been ill — nothing at all . |
| 17 | Can we imagine , for instance , that rulers could effectively have articulated their image through Christ , had there been no religious feeling in society as a whole to which appeal could be made , when they projected the Christ-image of rule ? |
| 18 | Has there been time ? |
| 19 | Nor have there been any informal jolly gatherings when the daily toil of pressing the flesh is over : Mr Kinnock wandering back among the press party , glass of whisky in hand , letting his ( metaphorical ) hair down a little , tipping us just the hint of a wink that this is all just a great game . |
| 20 | Have there been hung parliaments before ? |
| 21 | ‘ Yet nowhere has there been a guide to their identification . ’ |
| 22 | Never before had there been as many as nine of his members in a Masters field and every one of them made the cut . |
| 23 | Has there been any investigation as to what the potential users want from the system ? |
| 24 | Saner , Engineer to the Weaver Navigation , in his report to the Royal Commission on Inland Navigations in 1906 mentions Foxton Lift and its costly foundations , which might have been greatly reduced had the subsoil been of a nature or had there been available experience such as that gained in the course of the project . |
| 25 | ‘ Have there been any reports of missing children ? ’ he demanded . |
| 26 | At no time had there been any hint that France should try to benefit from the British embarrassment during this critical period , though the press published sharp attacks on the British policy of reprisals after the Mutiny was over . |
| 27 | Nor has there been sufficiently critical evaluation of programmes to screen for some diseases , he believes . |
| 28 | Nor has there been much change in the pattern of support from the family . |
| 29 | On talking to parents , we were told that had there been a suitable provision in their own country they would not be in Budapest . |
| 30 | Had there been more ? |