Example sentences of "[pron] they have [adv] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In four instances , the interviewees refused to discuss their criminal activities as these concerned crimes for which they had not been convicted . |
| 2 | The second was that Winchester had a right of appeal under the Lautro Rules which they had not been afforded the opportunity of exercising . |
| 3 | I was not short of students who applied for help in the most distressing of circumstances : mature students with spouses and children , who had been denied housing benefit and income support to which they had previously been entitled ; landlords pressing for rent payments and students with no money to pay ; arrears of rent building up ; poll tax arrears building up ; overdrafts being extended ; electricity supplies being cut off , in some cases to parents and children . |
| 4 | If a geographical barrier such as a mountain range were gradually destroyed , there would come a point at which plant and animal species would be able to move into territory from which they had hitherto been excluded . |
| 5 | The south Italians and Sicilians , who were to flood into the big cities of the Americas , had hardly yet begun to stir from their native slum villages , the east Europeans , Catholic or Orthodox , remained largely sedentary , only the Jews seeping or flooding into provincial towns from which they had hitherto been excluded and thence into larger cities . |
| 6 | Understandably , the conversation turned to the events of the past couple of weeks , in which they had all been involved . |
| 7 | Furthermore , Morgan was interested in the patterns which kinship terms create , not just for themselves , but because he believed they reflected the system of marriage with which they had originally been used . |
| 8 | The yield of clones grown with the grass species from which they had originally been sampled again exceeded that made when they were grown in an ‘ alien ’ sward , P < 0.00001 . |
| 9 | In truth it does not denote any single right , but rather refers to a disparate group of immunities , which differ in nature , origin , incidence and importance , and also as to the extent to which they have already been encroached upon by statute . |
| 10 | And the more they become integrated , then they would expand out , join the Scouts , the Guides or go to the local youth club , so be part of the , the er , growing up process which they have n't been afforded . |
| 11 | In a sale of a family company with widely dispersed shareholdings , there may be some difficulty in persuading some of the shareholders to give warranties about the business in which they have not been involved . |
| 12 | Individuals often deploy enormous amounts of energy to relatively little effect because they are carrying out functions for which they have not been trained or which are inappropriate to their status . |
| 13 | Marriage may feel yet one more place into which they have been pushed , one more area in which they have not been allowed to exercise their own choice . |
| 14 | Since in the case of a solicitors ' partnership all parties to such agreements should be taken as being familiar with the legal principles governing covenants in restraint of trade as well as with the particular circumstances of the practice with which they have all been involved , it might be thought that the court would be unwilling to substitute its own ideas as to what might constitute reasonable protection for the business . |
| 15 | Having outlined the key features that have been used to distinguish positivist criminology , in its wider sense , it remains to consider the manner in which they have actually been manifested in the different causal theories that have been proposed . |
| 16 | It is just to be cautious about carrying ideas far beyond the regimes in which they have currently been tested . |
| 17 | In Glasser 's book , and in Fraser 's , the activities of the poor can be seen as activities which had been performed , and written about , in the past : but these are books which intimate that the lists and specifications of a caring naturalism — features by which they have indeed been influenced — were never exhaustive : that the truth-tellers did not tell it , and that the omissions were systematic . |
| 18 | They have fewer opportunities than men to be nourished by their work , since they are more often involved in dull and repetitive jobs ; secondly , the domestic and nurturing skills in which they have usually been trained are held in lower esteem both in the home and in the workplace than administrative or management skills , so what they do is less likely to receive praise ; lastly , they are conditioned to value praise from men more highly than praise from women , who are more often their colleagues or first-level bosses . |
| 19 | Yeah , 'cos Tizer 's the only one they have n't been doing diet , and I 've been getting really pissed off . |
| 20 | Department 's tend , eh , the actual service department are very much what I would call practitioner lead , you 've got just people there doing there job and there 've been doing there job for years , and that 's you know , there not , the very rare thing today , erm , thinking of policy sense about the way in which they could change that service , you just get on and do what they 've always been doing . |
| 21 | They were thus inspired to assume flower names , and attracted a great deal of attention and interest — precisely , in fact , what they had previously been denied . |
| 22 | She had coaxed , cajoled and bribed the delivery boys to do what they had already been told to do — carry it to the relevant floor of the hotel . |
| 23 | I completed another tour of the mill and cottage , this time with Nigel in tow , trying to sound as objective as I could , as if I , too , saw mere possibilities , but as our tour progressed I could see that Nigel had warmed to it almost as much as I. He pointed out some ‘ interesting features ’ that I had missed , such as some of the wooden working parts of the mill machinery set high in the plastered walls , and told me what they had originally been used for . |
| 24 | She asked Nanny what they had all been talking about as Nanny towelled her dry . |
| 25 | Users have been conditioned by accountants over many years , so that their expressed needs may simply reflect marginal improvements on what they have already been receiving . |
| 26 | What they have n't been told is that you actually have to make a claim for benefit . |
| 27 | The Treasury , however , issued a statement saying that ‘ civil servants have not been asked to do anything they have not been asked to do under previous Governments of both parties , in accordance with the guidelines laid down by the Cabinet Office ’ . |
| 28 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |