Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind . |
2 | erm er if there 's anybody who you feel erm next door or who have recently been married cos it 's obviously a great help to people who have just recently been married . |
3 | It involves visits to the homes of children who are either convicted offenders , children at special risk , or who have recently been involved in trouble and have come to the attention of the police . |
4 | Anyone who can see — or who has ever been able to see — is able to visualize . |
5 | Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry . |
6 | The war situation has also had an influence in the deterioration of education because there are places — especially in the rural areas — where there has n't been any normality in schools for years . |
7 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
8 | No one had any comment to make for the excellent reason that everyone had already been convinced of the fact . |
9 | Neither oor Joy nor me have ever been handy . |
10 | ‘ Although I have n't been able to convince myself . ’ |
11 | In particular , the number of stopping places available to them has been drastically reduced over a period of three or four decades during which the travelling population has been on the increase , although I have not been able to discover the measure of it . |
12 | sidelong eyes that I 've not been bad |
13 | Before that I 've always been involved in women 's journals , including Women 's Report which is one of the early women 's monitoring journals in this country . |
14 | And I explained to them it 's because having been unemployed most of my professional life that I 've always been short of money and that 's what 's led me to work on very cheap materials . |
15 | ‘ There 's a parochial side to Scotland that I 've never been able to accept . |
16 | Soon I 'll have enough money for a really powerful crossbow , and that I 'm certainly looking forward to ; it 'll help make up for the fact that I 've never been able to persuade my father to buy a rifle or a shotgun that I could use sometimes . |
17 | Oh she probably heard that I had not been well |
18 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |
19 | It is not surprising that I have not been able to finish them , for I never have a single quiet hour here . |
20 | It 's been a bit of a pity , really , that rugby has taken over so much that I have n't been able to continue playing football . |
21 | It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent . |
22 | Now I might forget some of them but , er , what about er , you , seeing as how your skill is one that I have n't been able to acquire yet , Jo how did you get to make the perfect quiche . |
23 | ( I subsequently had ( 27 April ) a site meeting with an EGBT official , who completed a proposal form on the spot — however , the funding aspects are not my main concern here ; suffice it to say , 1 ) that I have always been confident that funding would be secured from one source or another , and 2 ) that my direct approach to SNH was done only because I had indications that their project approvals took months rather than weeks — something I have subsequently been assured is not true ) . |
24 | We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again . |
25 | Because of my very varied upbringing I have found that I have never been able to analyse the political effects of any discrimination . |
26 | It is of the eighth magnitude , but I admit that I have never been able to see it with certainty even with × 20 binoculars , though it is easy enough in a telescope . |
27 | The colour is obvious with a telescope , but I confess that I have never been able to detect it with binoculars , even × 20 . |
28 | There were various factors that came into making this decision but one of the things is I 'm heartily sick that I have never been able to go away on holiday in the autumn ever in my life . |
29 | After the yard was the house that was built for , and due , so much more life than I 'd ever been able to give it . |
30 | My home is 90 miles away , so I have n't been able to afford to go back very often . |