Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [been] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they have been most developed , they act to divorce the firm from the factor costs of a national location , and thus provide a further challenge to older notions of comparative advantage determining the outcomes for countries . |
| 2 | ‘ Black people , although they 've been here such a long time , have n't assimilated into the business community , or education , as they have in America . |
| 3 | Although this is the first recorded instance of a private undertaker being used by the royal household it is possible that they had been previously involved in some small way in royal funerals , for it is doubtful that the College of Arms provided coffins and it would seem probable that they contracted this out to the trade , to people such as William Russell — indeed , could it have been Russell who provided the coffin for Queen Mary in late December 1694 ? |
| 4 | I did not run into a lot of people who told me that they had been unexpectedly impressed by Mr Kinnock or unimpressed by Mr Major . |
| 5 | In view of their greater interest in Jarrad , the plaintiffs contended that they had been unfairly prejudiced . |
| 6 | It was obvious that they had been outside all the time , probably in a van . |
| 7 | It seems reasonable to suppose that they had been particularly depressed by the economic conditions of the inter-war period . |
| 8 | But she said that they had been so many months or when everybody else had a pay rise they only had a little bit . |
| 9 | The Girl said that they had been so kind and welcoming ; food all served to them and very good , too , and such comfortable bed-chambers for their use . |
| 10 | On the northern coalfield the rejection of badly filled corves on the grounds that they had been deliberately underfilled — " they will sometimes be so roguish as to set these big coals hollow at the Corfe bottom , and cover them with some small coals at the top of the Corves , and make it look like a full Corfe " — was a long-running grievance which led to a strike at one mine in 1751 . |
| 11 | The Prime Minister and the Lord Chancellor later in the year protested with apparent truthfulness that they had been quite unaware that it had been passed at all ! . |
| 12 | When asked if their shefi acted in too authoritarian a manner , some kolkhozniki at first said it was very rare , but then in peasant fashion slowly warmed up to the fact that they had been very angered by some young students who had written in Rabochii put ’ that their horses were badly fed and cleaned , and that they had not sown enough crops . |
| 13 | The chief ambulance officer , Mr Don Page , said last night that they had been very busy all day , and that their use would continue indefinitely — ‘ until ambulancemen and women in South Yorkshire resume normal working ’ . |
| 14 | He knows very well from the deputations of trustees and directors of national galleries and of galleries and museums around the country that they have been hugely critical of the Government 's neglect . |
| 15 | Predator species have a long evolutionary history , and it is inferred that they have been as important in the past as accumulators of small mammal bone as they are today . |
| 16 | Ladies often come to my classes and explain that they have been very good all week and yet had a binge just prior to the class ! |
| 17 | Some recent writers have tried to apply standards that are social rather than ethical , with the consequence that they have been very boring , and have made mistakes about individuals . |
| 18 | Not all of them I accept and they 've been very helpful and when it comes to erm any other issue , I think basically , unfortunately sir , I think that we have strayed from the debate , we 've strayed onto ethnic issues er er and I think it 's a shame Mr , there was no need to introduce that and of course it was bound to bring a backlash , it was bound to introduce it it it it 's coloured it it 's made opaque the issues because you make it complicated , in actual fact er er I think that er being a governor of a school , I think that 's absolutely marvellous that some youngsters the future , I think the future will decide , I think there are kids out there will turn round one day and say how could you have done that ? |
| 19 | No but they have n't , Charlie apologized on Monday and they 've been really nice to me , been getting on really well with Jim and Charlie in lessons |
| 20 | The sections had been hard at work since 0600 hours , and they had been very successful at keeping all the teams on the road . |
| 21 | Erm we both feel you 've had a chance in detail and they 'd been quite blank in design . |
| 22 | ‘ The success of drink drive campaigns hinges on urging society as a whole to reject this behaviour — and they have been particularly successful among younger drivers ; the same tactics should be employed to target unsafe driving . ’ |
| 23 | The nationalities concerned are generally Lutheran ( Estonians and Latvians ) or Roman Catholic ( Lithuanians ) by religion , not Orthodox , and they have been under Soviet rule for a much shorter period of time than most other nationalities , since 1940 rather than the immediate post-revolutionary period ( when communist-led governments were briefly established in all three republics ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Shandwick offered the opportunity to retain our own name and develop autonomously with no interference and they have been totally true to their word . |
| 25 | I have quite a few contacts — people who knew me when I was designing for Carnega — and they have been very encouraging . |
| 26 | And they have been very much but I though that Swatch cost that much no there are |
| 27 | Only two or three of the terminals were occupied , by guys who looked as if they 'd been up all night and who were already on to their second pack of cigarettes . |
| 28 | Even if they 'd been half full it would have been our only escape route . ’ |
| 29 | Still , to look on the bright side : if they had been together all this time , by now they might already be a dull settled couple , instead of which the long separation had preserved the thrill of courtship in their marriage , with letters passing between them constantly . |
| 30 | If they had been truly myopic ( on our definition ) they would have sold their entire stock on all 672 occasions . |