Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] been [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On its own , perhaps not , but I 'd also been told that day that people believed you and an English journalist who lives here , James Cobalt , were making enquiries about drug trafficking . |
| 2 | No , I 'd never been given that option . |
| 3 | And , besides , I had always been told that self-pity was despicable . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've just been given some great news . |
| 5 | Yes I 've just been told that . |
| 6 | I 've had some packed lunches which were perfect , but I 've also been sold some horrors . |
| 7 | Now I 've never been given any bother by the gays . |
| 8 | I have already been given several different figures , and was told by one person I could have 50 × 12″ fish because I have a good filter . |
| 9 | If it is n't correct , I would like to know why Engineering 's approval has been withheld , because I have never been given any indication , at any stage , that there were any major problems regarding the project . |
| 10 | She has also been painted this year by Howard Morgan , for Unilever . |
| 11 | When she had finally been rescued some two hours later it was discovered that the hem of her frock had been chewed away . |
| 12 | You have probably been given this brochure by your local ABTA Travel Agent . |
| 13 | But we 've also been told this year , that there will be year four , beyond this slide , where the same thing could happen again . |
| 14 | There were doctors concerned that they had never been given any information about a nuclear accident , farmers worried about the effect of contamination on their stock and crops , and a teacher who recited his own poem about a nuclear disaster and then presented the Inspector with an oak leaf from the Quantocks . |
| 15 | Mr Siddle said they had never been given any written instructions by Redpath Offshore about safety , but as a skilled workman he knew about having to support loads . |
| 16 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 17 | The authority for doing things this way lies in the fact that they have always been done this way and so questioning is not encouraged . |
| 18 | But in all these years he has certainly been spared those other , uninvited , distractions which sweep over our lives , a snowstorm of diversion and entertainment and half-understood knowledge . |
| 19 | It has also been decided that continuity will be best served by developing a much closer working relationship between Birtwell and the respective Canada under 21 and under 19 coaches , Paul Horne and Don Burgess ( under 21s ) and David Docherty and Doug Sturrock ( under 19s ) . |
| 20 | It has also been shown that cholera toxin and heat stable enterotoxin of Escherichia coli can induce fluid secretion in the rat colon . |
| 21 | It has also been reported that frusemide inhibits glucose transport ( Jung & Mookerjee , 1976 ) . |
| 22 | Earth tremors caused structural damage in Angra village in 1988 but the nuclear plant 's operators , state-owned Furnas Centrais Electricas , denied that the reactor had been damaged , although it has since been closed several times for " repairs " . |
| 23 | It has equally been mooted that postmodernism in the aesthetic realm — and I have argued that such postmodernism first surfaced in the Surrealism and more generally in the historical avant-garde of the 1920s — has been an important condition of formation of poststructuralism in the human sciences ( Huyssen 1984 ; see above , Chapter Three ) . |
| 24 | It has even been suggested that three-quarters of what we know as adults we learned in childhood . |
| 25 | It has even been held that presence remains no more than evidence of encouragement even when it is accompanied by a secret intention to help if necessary one of the participants in an affray . |
| 26 | It is difficult to see why it has ever been supposed otherwise-that generality and number in themselves somehow fight with causation sensibly conceived . |
| 27 | It has been seen that academic institutions have to abide by procedural fairness when applying disciplinary measures , as do trade unions , and it has now been held that prison Visitors and governors exercising their disciplinary functions are subject to certiorari for breach of natural justice . |
| 28 | It has always been noticed that information technology skills , of which we shall need more and more in the coming years , have tended to lag behind the demand for those skills . |
| 29 | ‘ It has always been done this way ’ is poor reason unless one knows why . |
| 30 | Thus it has actually been held that murder can be an ‘ accident . ’ |