Example sentences of "have been [adv] [vb pp] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 When the loan has been fully paid up the lender has to reassign the house to the borrower .
2 It does not seem ever to have been satisfactorily answered why the two first operational atomic bombs were used — against the strongly voiced wishes of the leading physicists responsible for developing them — to destroy two cities instead of being deployed in the equivalent of spectacularly shooting out candles .
3 All the suggestions for improvement had been adequately implemented so the conclusion could only be that neither party had grasped the size and nature of the problem .
4 Nigel was strapped into a light commode in a sitting position and had been carefully carried down the fire escape to the waiting car .
5 Proceedings may be instituted before a national court , and such proceedings have been successfully brought in the UK .
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