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At the Home Office building in Liverpool, where many of the 1,500 people employed to process the applications are based, there is a relentlessly positive atmosphere. Everyone here is aware of the damage done to the Home Office’s reputation by Windrush. In recent years, the Home Office has been condemned by politicians for being steeped in a “culture of disbelief”, where staff are expected to probe for tiny inconsistencies in the accounts of refugees, and where officials are instructed to “deport first, hear appeals later”. Being is also the gerund form of be, which means that it can be used as a noun or as part of a noun phrase. It’s chastening when one of the loudest, clearest voices urging positive reporting of asylum seekers comes from the police. ACPO, in its Policing Guide To Asylum Seekers And Refugees, published last year, reminds its media spokespeople that the numbers of asylum seekers in Britain are marginal, that they’re “real people who need our urgent support and in time could make a valuable contribution”, that “we have a history of absorbing other cultures...and being an asylum seeker is no fun”, and that they should “encourage direct media involvement in the integration of asylum seekers, offering positive stories at every possible opportunity”. This year, there has been a fevered European debate about the role played by the growing numbers of refugees in kindling a newly ignited far right. Post-September 11 Islamophobia has allowed many commentators to argue that Muslim asylum seekers bring a fundamentalism on issues such as women’s rights and homosexuality that is at odds with liberal values. Curiously, many of those commentators now busily climbing over themselves to defend liberal values are the very same people who only a few years ago were leading the assault on liberal social policies. 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.

This expresses a state of existence identical to that expressed in It was here before we came and in It had been here before we came, and just as there is no rule of grammar which prohibits its use, there is none which requires it. There can be context in conversation or literature which requires its use (or the use of the past perfect) to make meaning clear, but we have nothing here upon which to rely. Without context, this is an instance in which the perfect is just unnecessary. What’s more, those that were granted entry were admitted only because the Jewish community guaranteed that it would bear all the expenses of accommodation and maintenance, with no burden placed on the public purse. Elsewhere, Canada accommodated only 5,000 European Jews between 1933 and 1945, Australia 10,000, South Africa some 6,000. And the US’s unyielding quota system meant that, between 1933 and 1937, only 33,000 German Jews were admitted (and only 124,000 between 1938 and 1941). Have been and has been are verb constructions that are used in the present perfect tense and the present perfect progressive tense.He is a man who makes his passion into a full-time job; his interest in traveling, experiencing various foods, and exploring cultures have made him a well-known YouTuber. He said the best thing he earned was “people’s trust.” But her passport could not be read by the app, even though she had travelled through a passport e-gate, which uses the same technology, only four days earlier. Being" is the present participle of the verb "to be." (For comparison, "cooking" is the present participle of the verb "to cook.") They basically messed up my life,” Howard says. “I had a steady job. They took my job away, stating quite clearly I had no status in this country. It broke my heart losing my job with Peabody. It was the best job I was ever in. When my mum passed away, I wasn’t there, and I still have not been at her graveside. I haven’t left the country since I was four, not even to go to France or Ireland.

News Blog Culture, media & sport Lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) people have always existed and always will exist. We are not going anywhere, and we’re certainly not a trend. She could barely walk and had to use a wheelchair. In other words, symptoms that are being reported by those who have what has come to be known as long COVID. A number of others in similarly difficult positions have since come forward. Some, like McIntyre, have been made homeless by the Home Office’s refusal to accept that they have a right to be living here; others have opted to live a life beneath the radar, to avoid deportation; while others have struggled to get cancer treatment, amid questions over their eligibility for NHS care. High commissioners of Commonwealth countries are concerned about the number of elderly former Commonwealth citizens, who have been here since childhood, facing similar problems and have called on the UK government to show more compassion. I want to say to the reporters who write that, we’re all human beings and nobody knows what’s going to happen in the future. No one could have predicted what happened in New York. Who knows when British people might need someone’s help: it’s not inconceivable that the people who wrote this could themselves be asylum seekers some day. We left everything there: we had a job, a huge house and a garden, we had a nice life. But the most important thing was our freedom. It wasn’t easy for us to leave everything and come over here - we’ve been through a lot.” According to Whitehall And The Jews, 1933-1948 (Cambridge University Press), Louise London’s definitive account of British immigration policy and the Holocaust, “The process...was designed to keep out large numbers of European Jews - perhaps 10 times as many as it let in.” Around 70,000 had been admitted by the outbreak of the war, but British Jewish associations had some half a million more case files of those who had not.

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Fill in each blank with the proper use of have been, has been, or had been according to the tense given. 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.”

That cultural hybridity he experienced aroused his curiosity to explore new destinations worldwide. Family and relationships. 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 word "been" is the past participle of the verb "to be." As such, it can be used with "have" (in all its guises) to form tenses in the perfect (or complete) aspect. For example:

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. Yet the Press Complaints Commission’s record of dealing with complaints about press reporting of asylum seekers is abysmal. The National Union of Journalists’ ethics council complained about one Daily Express headline, “Asylum: Time To Pull Down The Shutters”, claiming that it breached Clause 13 of the PCC Code of Practice, which stipulates that the press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative references to a person’s race, colour or religion. McIntyre is part of a largely invisible group of people who arrived in the UK as children from Commonwealth countries more thn half a century ago and grew up here believing themselves to be British, only to discover recently, in a newly hardened immigration climate, that they are without the necessary papers, and unable to prove their right to be here. The scale of the problem is only just emerging as more long-settled, retirement-age individuals come forward with details about brutal treatment at the hands of the Home Office.

For the moment the political rhetoric remains warm, and officials say people who have a good reason for missing the deadline will be allowed a “reasonable” further period to apply, but the small print spells out the chilling consequences of failing to get status. Although politicians are not currently choosing to highlight this publicly, the Home Office has made it clear in planning documents that, from January 2021 (in a no-deal scenario), anyone without valid UK immigration status “will be liable to enforcement action, detention and removal as an immigration offender”. 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: Current bigotry against asylum seekers, it’s chilling to discover, closely mimics prewar anti-Jewish sentiments, and in both instances has been legitimised by British immigration policy. Rather than relaxing entry requirements for Austrian Jews after the Anschluss - Germany’s annexation of Austria in March 1938 - the British government tightened them, introducing new, strictly controlled visas precisely to restrict their numbers. More than 65,000 Austrian Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. Since the beginning of the year, Labour has been warning of looming problems with the system, even talking of “ Windrush on steroids”. But such warnings are often firmly slapped down as just being part of “project fear”. (“I find your comparisons to Windrush inappropriate,” Priti Patel, the home secretary, told the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, this month.)Rabbi Hugo Gryn said: “How you are with the one to whom you owe nothing is a grave test.” At the moment, Britain is failing that test, especially in its press coverage. As the daughter of Polish Jewish postwar asylum seekers, I’m stupefied by how the collective memory can be so short, bigotry so unabashed, and how, with all the recent interest in the Holocaust, basic connections can fail to be made. Are we doomed always to stigmatise the Other, or are these the last bleatings of the little Englander? Must compassion only ever be extended after the event? Been and being are two forms of the verb be. Been is the past participle of be that is used for the present perfect and past perfect verb tenses. Been is also used in combination with other verbs to form the three perfect continuous verb tenses. Being is the present participle and gerund form of be. It’s used to form continuous verb tenses and as a noun. When to use been or being If the sentence subject is a third-person singular noun ( he, she, it, Courtney), we would use the phrase has been. Though the virulence of recent press coverage seemed temporarily to abate, it has been reignited by the Eurotunnel affair and the plan to establish rural “accommodation centres”. The tabloid press uses the language of “invasion”, as if by an enemy. But, of course, there’s nothing intrinsically illegal about most asylum seekers. Their illegality has been created by the asylum system. And often they’re “sans papiers” because the regimes from which they’re fleeing aren’t considerate enough to give documentation to those whom they are persecuting. My name is David Hoffmann and for the last decade I have been traveling around the world in search of unique culture, food and history!