Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [pron] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't even know if they had been responsible but I had nothing more to offer . |
| 2 | A large venture capital organisation , who refused to comment on individual headhunter performance , wrote that on the whole good candidates had been put forward , but that they would not know if there had been any leaks or illegal use of information by search firms . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe they 'll know if there 's been any traffic over the road . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I need to know if there 's been any action planned or executed in Russia . ’ |
| 5 | They say unless you 've been unemployed six months you 're not unemployed . |
| 6 | Lastly , the GCSE requires pupils to wait for the length of a two-year course before they can know whether they have been successful , whereas a record of achievement is only the most recent and perhaps summarizing statement of progress which the pupils themselves have monitored and recorded . |
| 7 | And I do n't know whether anybody 's been successful . |
| 8 | yes , and I , I do n't know whether I 've been that way , I honestly do n't know right then , so you 're all systems go , that 's the main thing |
| 9 | Her work will also explore whether there have been significant differences between the involvement of women in Scottish party politics and that of the United Kingdom as a whole . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , though the currents of genuine popular opinion are now even more difficult to evaluate than they had been earlier , given the intensified persecution from 1942 onwards of even relatively trivial ‘ offences ’ of criticizing the regime or ‘ subverting ’ the wartime ordinances , every sign points towards the growth in this period of a ‘ silent majority ’ increasingly critical of the Nazi regime — even if the criticism was often only obliquely expressed — and ready to blame it for the mounting miseries of the war . |
| 11 | Either he can at once accept the anticipatory breach as a repudiation and immediately claim damages or else he can refuse to accept it as a repudiation and wait until there has been actual failure to perform the contract ( as opposed to an anticipatory one ) . |
| 12 | Surely she 'd have noticed if there had been any other forced entry . |
| 13 | You see , I did n't dare make a scene as I should have done if I 'd been married . |
| 14 | Tell me , ’ she added , determined to put things straight between them , ‘ purely as a matter of interest , what would you have done if I had been pregnant ? ’ |
| 15 | I do n't know what I 'd have done if you 'd been any later — the girls are getting terribly impatient . ’ |
| 16 | For the first time she began to wonder if she 'd been foolhardy — no matter how strong her desire to get away , she should n't have put her own safety at risk . |
| 17 | I 'd have said if he 'd been dead but Kevin 's mum said he was on the danger list . " |
| 18 | You have to consider things very carefully , and quite often you end up making decisions that you might not have made if you 'd been alone . ’ |
| 19 | Many keen to set up in business will also be hampered because they have been unable to build up capital . |
| 20 | Some " disappeared " prisoners are transferred because there has been much publicity about their capture , but this is by no means always the case . |
| 21 | Sometimes they had speculated on how she would develop but not often : mostly she was taken for granted because she had been such a quiet child , sitting dozily in her pram outside the Dog and Duck while the sun went down . |
| 22 | He saw his reflection in the mirror as he was adjusting his collar ; not only had his side-whiskers grown while he had been ill , there was also a growth of beard on his chin . |
| 23 | It did not matter whether they had been far-sighted landowners , former artisans or merchants in feudal society ; what is crucial for Marxists is the belief that their ownership of the new and increasingly predominant mode of production led them to have common interests and goals . |
| 24 | Of course I can easily perceive when you have been obliged to form your ideas from stuffed specimens . |
| 25 | The rockdust prevented her from seeing if she had been successful in her kill . |
| 26 | An important aim of the study was to see if there had been any growth in the use of temporary working in Britain in recent years . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm simply calling to see if there have been any developments . ’ |
| 28 | Finally , we compare the findings of the 1984 survey with those of the 1983 and 1986 surveys to see if there has been any growth in temporary working over this period . |
| 29 | Oh all of my stuff has been up in the loft it 's like you say , I mean if they 've been double wrapped and everything and you wash them |
| 30 | When Leo told me , I asked if he had been able to give the message . |