Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] have [been] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 2 | Well probably because er you know we try and keep up er er certain standard every year and er you know it 's very important doing a video that you have the right songs for it , you know to get a story book set up for each song and this one we felt when we had it finished was probably you know the best we 've done so far and lucky enough we 've been proved right . |
| 3 | Perhaps they 've been made redundant . |
| 4 | The first two of those were also included were made public , they are in the issue 's papers it did not make public the county council 's proposal as to who should be participants for each topic since those were matters for the the panel er to ma take a view of and I understood er from er the question er the answer to the question that it had been made clear that er the information had been made public except as always Chairman , er our legal office 's of the council always like that caveat that in case anything had been missed out I had just in fact suggested that perhaps not everything had been made public so I anticipated a possible supplementary question from Mr . |
| 5 | I I appreciate that point Mr , but as they arrived separately they 've been given different numbers er a as simply er a matter of administrative convenience . |
| 6 | And yesterday she had been proved right . |
| 7 | Probably everything had been kept ready for weeks , prepared as soon as Ruth got here . |
| 8 | Traditionally it has been assumed that thinking , whether about value or about fact , has to be fully detached from the spontaneous , which engages with it only as emotion biasing judgement . |
| 9 | Clearly it had been taken several years earlier , but it showed , even then , the supercilious cast of a face which had looked into the camera with head held well back , and lips that seemed to smile with a curious arrogance above the Vandyke beard . |
| 10 | Now she 's been made Head Girl ; the first in 450 years . |
| 11 | Yes , as you pointed out we have been offered one hundred percent nomination rights to er , these equity share units the er , partners which members have shows as erm er the Environment Trust are a charitable trust , they 're not they 're developers , they 're not speculative developers . |
| 12 | ‘ I was brought up here by your soldiers and now we have been set free . |
| 13 | Now it has been made safe . |
| 14 | The workshop had looked certain to shut down after the local authority withdrew its funding , but now it 's been given two months to persuade the private sector to come up with a rescue package . |
| 15 | So if your if you 're an elder it 'll be very difficult to get up those very steep steps etcetera so it 's got disadvantages now it 's been run all sorts of ways it 's was run you know it was run as a as a wine wine bar it was run as a restaurant it 's been run as a bar it 's been run as a stage door club but all this all these ways have been run by private individuals it 's not always been the trust that 's run it it 's been run as franchise all these people have great problems actually making profit out of it and making it suitable . |
| 16 | Now he 's been taken ill with this so , she hopes that he do n't and get behind you know but it 's the head in it ? |
| 17 | Gironella 's solution was entirely individual : to focus on the art of the European past , looming large as it did in Latin American consciousness regardless of how often it had been declared dead and buried by Europeans . |
| 18 | could n't I have been left alone |
| 19 | mm , well we 've been told this with Simon , you know needs to get to standard with them , with maths in particularly , before he goes up to secondary level you know because |
| 20 | Because like she said , here he 's been made redundant once , and he stands another chance of just starting |
| 21 | Colour is another consideration and here it has been kept pale and cool . |
| 22 | They looked like they acted quite properly erm and er unfortunately someone 's been shot dead . |
| 23 | Unfortunately she had been placed next to Dorothy , Fred 's daughter , in one routine . |
| 24 | But since then we have been given additional help with the cleaning , but the same hours . |
| 25 | Directors have sometimes been called trustees , or commercial trustees , sometimes they have been called managing partners ; it does not matter much what you call them as long as you understand what their true position is , which is really that they are commercial men managing a trading concern for the benefit of themselves and all the other shareholders … they are bound to use fair and reasonable diligence in the management of the company 's affairs and to act honestly . |
| 26 | Well there 's that I mean there 's all , there 's a whole range of things , there 's ghoulish voyeurism right , I mean that that 's important , there 's also the way the Royals have been peddled by the media over the decades and the fact that you know this has been how they 've been tendered this is what they actually are and that y you , you know what I 'm saying that erm or whatever it is between this is what they are , this is what we 've been and they do n't match , they really do n't match . |
| 27 | Since then he had been re-elected six times . |
| 28 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 29 | He loved to tell stories of how he had given advice , how it had been disregarded , and how he had been proved right . |
| 30 | Consequently it has been thought unjust that they should obtain priority over employees ( one of the categories of preferential creditor ) who have priority to the shareholders in the event of the company 's liquidation . |