Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [been] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for Nietzsche " art as a whole " and " the Hellenic sphere " were simply not separable , any more than they had been for Winckelmann . |
| 2 | It may be that they have been without God and alone and lost in the world and that through the preaching of the word they have become Christians . |
| 3 | He had asked the young men if they had been to Germany — knowing they had not . |
| 4 | Since they have been in Brazil things have not been easy but they have settled in well and are slowly coming to terms with the language . |
| 5 | On the contrary , such dispositions of honores and patronage were , as they had been for Charles 's predecessors , crucial instruments of royal power in the regions . |
| 6 | It was summer , and he walked around the beautiful gardens alone , admiring the beds of shrub-roses which had been laid out here as they had been in Josephine Bonaparte 's gardens at Malmaison . |
| 7 | Famines had been a cyclical phenomenon in the Volga region , as they had been in Asia , for centuries . |
| 8 | Even in the northern counties , Scottish raids were never as frequent or as deeply penetrating as they had been in Edward II 's reign , and although the inhabitants of those counties made the most of their plight in petitions for relief from taxation , the raids in the years after 1332 did little long-term damage to the region 's economy . |
| 9 | Ironically , the protest had nothing to do with the South Africans who were as warmly received as they had been in Jamaica and Trinidad , greeted and feted by the government and watched by Prime Ministers Erskine Sandiford of Barbados and P.J. Patterson of Jamaica who came specially for the historic occasion , the first Test ever played between teams previously kept apart by the ideology of racial superiority . |
| 10 | As they have been at Wimpey Homes ’ first development of Superspec houses at West Moor in Newcastle upon Tyne . |