Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they have not been in government ( eg , the ex-communist Party of the Democratic Left in Italy ) , they have profited , being relatively scandal-free . |
| 2 | The chronicler Roger of Wendover wrote that at the Council of Oxford in 1227 , ‘ the King caused to be cancelled and annulled all the charters of liberties of the forest , although they had already been in force in the whole realm for two years ’ : the earls who rebelled in July were said to have compelled the king to restore the charters by the threat of armed force . |
| 3 | The two of them , closer in death than they 'd ever been in life . |
| 4 | Erm the loyalist paramilitaries have become much more sophisticated than they 've ever been in their history . |
| 5 | They 're much more sophisticated than they 've ever been in the past . |
| 6 | For a while my self-loathing and judgement of self went deeper than they had ever been in my life . |
| 7 | The intuitive explanation for the negative slope of the aggregate demand curve is that a higher price implies , ceteris paribus , a lower real quantity of money in the economy since the real quantity of money is defined to be the nominal quantity of money , M , divided by the general level of prices , P 1 that is M÷P , One way in which people may respond to finding themselves with less real money than they had before is by selling off holdings of bonds to rebuild their holdings of money . |
| 8 | Most modern houses have very little fortuitous ventilation because improved standards of insulation and draught-proofing have made them much more air-tight than they have ever been in the past . |
| 9 | Taxes are higher than they have ever been in this country 's history , and the burden falls disproportionately heavily on lower-income families . |
| 10 | Moreover , mystical movements are no more prevalent in the West than they have ever been from the Dionysian rites to the temple of Aimee McPherson . |
| 11 | The other odd thing , she realised , was that they 'd never been on holiday to France . |
| 12 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |
| 13 | Fitzormonde and Mowbray had always been soft , they could whine and moan that they had not been to blame , but Horne had agreed to Whitton 's plan and built a thriving business on the proceeds . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it seems fair to say that by the 1530s social grievances were again being voiced to an extent that they had not been in the previous century . |
| 15 | It is just that they have both been at it too often recently . |
| 16 | They share the fact that they have all been of limited duration but , within that framework , one has been concerned with local skills training , four have involved modules contained within honours degree courses ( Typography and Graphic Communication , Library Science , Publishing and Computer Science respectively ) and one has been at postgraduate level . |
| 17 | People had got no money you see having a load of kids and they keep always being in the family way , naturally trying to get rid of them you see because they did n't want them obviously . |
| 18 | That were in the freezer and they 'd obviously been in there for a bit too long . |
| 19 | And , and how do people find out about you if they 've perhaps been through psychiatric illness ? |
| 20 | Children should always wash their hands before handling food , particularly if they 've recently been in contact with pets . |
| 21 | For this one date they were supported by the Billy Harper Trio with Peter Stuart and Adrian Tilbrook on bass and drums and they fitted in as if they 'd all been on tour together . |
| 22 | They would n't have put that on if they had n't been on drugs ! |
| 23 | If they had not been in the habit of seeing each other so often , at least once a week and sometimes more , talking on the phone every day , that appalling suggestion might have driven a bolt through their friendship , eventually destroying it . |
| 24 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 25 | The Alpine snows closed over his militant steps , and the sinners he had excommunicated for one reason or another turned their thoughts from irregular union or simony , if they had ever been on them , and peered into the mists of what promised to be a very long vacancy . |
| 26 | Educationally , girls work harder and do better than if they had still been in school . |
| 27 | You may find that older dogs are nervous under these circumstances , if they have never been on a train or bus before , and you should always try to reassure them with your tone of voice . |
| 28 | Existing borrowers who have been with the society for five years or more may get a reduction in their interest rate if they have never been in arrears . |
| 29 | I do n't like the cold snaps but they have n't been for long have they ? |
| 30 | It is often the case that the specializing groups are of type ( i ) , with formal membership , but they have also been of types ( ii ) and ( iii ) . |