The word "being" can also be a gerund, which is a type of noun. In this use, it has a meaning similar to "existing." For example: Campaigners worry most about those who do not realise they need to apply, or those who have difficulties converting their pre-settled status into the permanent settled status in the years that follow Brexit. Nicolas Hatton of the 3million charity warns: “On 1 January 2021, if there is no deal, and you haven’t applied, you will be an illegal immigrant. The hostile environment is no joke. That’s when the timebomb will explode.” The German diplomat presiding over the occasion (who asked not to be named) exhibited a mournful sense of humour at some of the questions. The answer to the question you asked is very clear: we say "here" when you are describing a place you are in (physically or metaphorically), and "there" when you're describing something you are far from or separate from.

His mother returned to Jamaica when she retired, and Howard’s problems emerged when he wanted to visit her urgently when she became ill in 2005. He applied for a passport, but his application was rejected because he had never naturalised. He hadn’t known that this was necessary. His mother died without him seeing her in 2006.

The process of applying had made her think about her attitudes to Britishness. “I find it difficult to know after all this time whether I feel at home here. I certainly don’t feel British, like a British person, but I have English friends … I feel in-between; I feel both. There’s a saying: the British are too polite to be honest, the Germans are too honest to be polite. I think there is something in it.” So basically I’m long COVID four years on – this is what it looks like,’ she says. ‘I do feel for the people with long COVID. As a rule, the word "been" is always used after "to have" (in any of its forms, e.g., "has," "had," "will have," "having"). Conversely, the word "being" is never used after "to have." "Being" is used after "to be" (in any of its forms, e.g., "am," "is," "are," "was," "were").

The fact that we do now have words for what were previously unnamed identities is a beautiful thing. In addition, the PCC doesn’t have the resources, he maintains, “to take up general observations and complaints from anyone who chooses to write in to us in the whole country. If we did, no one with a genuine grievance would get any help from us.” But the PCC sometimes does issue a statement on a particular subject, so why not on this? “We do if relevant groups approach us, but we’d want to consult widely to make sure we said something new. It’s a serious matter, but there are all sorts of other matters: the list could be endless, so we have to respond to requests.”

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Nicolas Hatton, co-founder of the3million, an organisation set up to support EU nationals, describes the decision to introduce an application system with a cut-off date as a timebomb, because so many will fail to apply on time. Switching metaphors, he warns this will be an “illegal immigrants factory … designed to create thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants”. Recession then, recession now - in both cases, a harsh economic climate is used to justify exclusion. In the 1930s, many trades unions, such as the shoe and bootmakers’, cited the unemployment of their own members as the reason they opposed a loosening of immigration controls. Yet other unions, such as the National Union of Agricultural Workers, with similar numbers of unemployed union members, argued for an increase in the number of work permits. The "before" at the end would magnify that sense of prior to that moment, but I think that the "had" is sufficient. There is an English grammar "rule" not to end sentences with a preposition, so some would prefer not to end the sentence with "before" to comply. However, non-compliance is common, particularly in spoken English. Adding the "before" to the sentence with "have" makes it descriptively correct if not perfect grammar.

Moreover, the timeline of her stay in the West coincides with 9/11 which had repercussions for Muslims in myriad ways, so much so that one had to at times spell out one’s name in ways that would not sound like a Muslim name. The search for safety thus remained a constant search. However, what is heart-warming is the sense of community and solidarity as an upshot of the social circle that Samra Habib finds herself as a part of, while for her parents that sense of community comes in the form of being a part of the diaspora circles of similar kind that felt like home away from home. However, "being" can act as an adjective before a noun (or a pronoun) when it is joined by other words to form a participle phrase. They were trying to deliver the biggest, most contentious new system that any of them had likely ever worked on, while the basic requirements were changing around them, even days before they went live,” said Joe Owen, the programme director of the Institute for Government, a thinktank working to make government more effective. Owen has been tracing the development of the scheme since the EU referendum. We would use have been when the sentence subject is I, you, we, or the third-person plural ( the children have been studying grammar all morning; they have been studying all morning). In later years, as Samra comes out to her family, the act is nothing short of a paradigmatic shift, as her family is forced to imagine a world they never thought had existed- or simply like many others had chosen to un-see, to overlook, to invisibilise. Yet the title asserts “we have always been here”.

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We’re trying to change the perception of the Home Office,” the woman who heads the call centre said. Staff have dealt with a lot of people who were “upset, frightened and angry”, she said. “We understand why. This is something that has happened to those people. They weren’t consulted or even given a vote in it. They are now having to apply for something that they always had.” The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, meanwhile, tried to find academic posts for elite scientists and researchers. It isn’t fanciful to imagine current asylum seekers making similar contributions to those made by the Jewish prewar and postwar immigrants.

In today’s review we will discuss the differences among the phrases so you can use each one correctly when you are speaking or writing. When and How to Use Have Been or Has Been This almost flurry of research into long COVID contrasts with the experience of many with ME/CFS, who often have felt ignored or misunderstood by the medical profession. But for some, the interest in long COVID is an opportunity to learn more about the longer-term consequences of viral infections – which could, in time, also benefit people with ME/CFS. The verb phrases have been, has been, and had been all have closely related meanings. That similarity may at times lead to confusion about the right time to use each construction. Today, the government wants immigrants to be obliged to learn English and undergo citizenship courses. In the 1930s, German Jewish refugees were urged to learn English and refrain from speaking German. Daniel Snowman, in his book about refugees from Nazi Germany, The Hitler Emigrés (Chatto & Windus), describes a typical north London refugee salon, dripping with music and art: “A ghetto? Yes, in a way. But those who formed it would have disavowed the name and simply regarded themselves as reproducing the style and quality of life they had been forced to abandon.” The Kosovan Albanians, Afghans and Sri Lankans living in Britain would doubtless say the same. The Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig distinguished between assimilating into someone else’s culture, causing the extinction of one’s own distinct identity and history, and assimilating into one’s own culture the most valuable and enriching aspects of someone else’s. It’s a distinction the British have yet to appreciate. More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. (Author Napoleon Hill)

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Howard, McIntyre and Griffith all have a legal right to stay in the UK because the 1971 Immigration Act gave people who had already settled in Britain indefinite leave to remain, but all have struggled to gather enough documents to convince the Home Office that they arrived before the cut-off point.