Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [vb -s] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Hakim ( 1982 ) re-analysed the data and found that ‘ the results … confirm the association between crime and unemployment , and suggest it has been increasing over time ’ ( p.453 ) . |
| 2 | Above all we must disregard any traditional idea and never , never , be put off by statements of ‘ practical men ’ who say it has been tried before or it will never work ; these two feeble and slavish statements have destroyed countless ideas and they have been the rocks against which many brilliant minds have foundered . |
| 3 | Despite the criticism levelled at the public conscience test it has been used in a number of cases . |
| 4 | They say he 's been stopped from dispensing NHS prescriptions . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You say he 's been charged with assault … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Why , they say he has been thrown into prison for debt ! ’ |
| 7 | Grampian Police say he has been identified as a Northfield resident but his name is being withheld . |
| 8 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |
| 9 | said about the Animal Procedures Act of nineteen eighty six , erm , I know she 's been told about the animals are killed painlessly and that they suffer very little pain , where there 's any pain at all , but in fact this act erm which is governed by a committee only erm issues guidelines as to what might happen . |
| 10 | We broke that , or that was broke er , but we 'll blame the carrier now and look at it , then our security guy goes out and they know it 's been sitting around someone 's you know , it 's been there for months ! |
| 11 | ‘ I know he 's been looking for you . |
| 12 | I know he 's been doing to this man as he 's gone past so Harry sitting there the not saying you know . |
| 13 | I spose he has been fading towards the end of matches , but then again — who has nt ? |
| 14 | ‘ She upset her hosts by her grumpy behaviour in Korea and we believe she 's been talking to Morton 's people again . |
| 15 | I believe it has been identified as the ‘ puffout ’ , a distance cousin of our old favourite , the ‘ puffin ’ . |
| 16 | But when I put the phone down I find he has been standing in the doorway . |
| 17 | I reckon it 's been brought into the front room because erm , if she shut that door for them , cos she shuts the animal in a , a room here there and bloody everywhere , it 's stopped again now ai n't it ? |
| 18 | They claim it has been put in the story by the early Church , during the period of the oral tradition , to show that Jesus thought his mission was primarily for the Jews and not the Gentiles . |
| 19 | ‘ I bet he 's been dying for an audience , ’ Dalziel said to Pascoe . |
| 20 | it 's been going around and around here for the last four days er I bet it 's been coming round the block up this street about eight to ten times a day , I du n no what 's it doing , the up here |
| 21 | That matter is not really as we perceive it has been known to chemists and physicists for over 150 years , but despite Einstein 's demonstration , and that of other atomic scientists since , that matter and energy are interchangeable , we persist in our view that physical matter is solid and stable . |
| 22 | Although Re Sigsworth was only the decision of a puisne judge it has been approved by the Court of Appeal and extended to other statutes raising a similar question . |
| 23 | I declare it 's been carried against and so we come back to deliverance number two as it is in the print . |
| 24 | I declare it has been carried against . |
| 25 | I mean it has been referred to that we might have to do them again , I sincerely hope we do n't have to go through this process again . |
| 26 | you mean it 's been made in Devon |
| 27 | She 's very lovely and I 'm sure she kisses like a veteran , but if you mean he 's been sleeping with her , no ! |
| 28 | I think he 's been drinking in the pub cos I can smell it on his breath . |
| 29 | You think it has been kept in the ‘ fridge so what do you do ? |
| 30 | Spender ( 1982 ) argues that male teachers are more likely to regard work highly if they think it has been written by a boy , although her research methodology is not made explicit . |