Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've also been plastered on walls usually reserved for political propaganda . |
| 2 | no , when you get someone 's relative phoning up because they 've just been crushed under a lump of machinery , that 's is very fraught . |
| 3 | Lest the childless or single feel left out by the cosy umbrella of ‘ Parents For Safe Food ’ ' however , they 've lately been acknowledged by the incorporation of the words ‘ And Others ’ in the organisation 's title . |
| 4 | " No , I was not : I 'm not a member of the South Tipperary Brigade , but I heard the details from one of the lads there , and they 've since been confirmed by the Big Fellow himself . " |
| 5 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 6 | Oh there 's a char , there 's a lovely char here , these lovely chars er actually spend most of the time in big cold lakes and they 're a , they 're a population in they normally respond in December from about December the second to the fifteenth and they 've probably been isolated since fourteen thousand years ago , with that every population has gone slightly different to , to the next one . |
| 7 | They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital . |
| 8 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 9 | they did n't even know how to put the clip onto the microphone , they were sitting holding the microphones instead of slinging it round their neck , and they 've never been told about the equipment , so they need n't |
| 10 | They 've never been reviewed in ZZAP ! , though , so unless they slipped out under assumed names I 'm afraid you 've had it . |
| 11 | Those upland fields are the hardest land of all to till , not only because of the incline , but also because they 've recently been reclaimed from the forest and the soil is still heavy with roots and stones . |
| 12 | they , they 've always been known for marvellous skin have n't they , the erm |
| 13 | Inevitably , though , some people missed the point entirely and as a result they 've often been tarred by the indiscriminate brush of ‘ gothic rock ’ . |
| 14 | Now they 've obviously been exported to this country . ’ |
| 15 | Although they look sweet and innocent enough , they 've actually been registered under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act . |
| 16 | They 've all been listening to the trainer . |
| 17 | They 've all been released without charged . |
| 18 | They 've all been waiting for more than 2 years for plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 19 | They have even been mistaken for a very loose cluster , though in fact they are not really associated with each other . |
| 20 | A number from the famous Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of western Canada are so strange that they have even been claimed as the representatives of ‘ extinct phyla ’ . |
| 21 | For they have just been faced with the prospect of losing £1 million of the money they have to spend on research this year . |
| 22 | The lecture theatre resonates like a drum with the chatter of a hundred-odd students , all talking at once , as if they have just been released from solitary confinement . |
| 23 | I feel an opting-out system would be probably less distressing to the donor 's relatives ( who may find an approach for donation insensitive when they have just been told of an — often — unexpected death ) . |
| 24 | They have also been regarded as a topic distinctive to fluid dynamics . |
| 25 | In general these rocks have been subjected to high grade metamorphism , have a variable grain size , and occur in north west-south east trending belts , although they have also been recognised as small discontinuous lenses , a few metres in length , intercalated with other gneissic rocks . |
| 26 | They have also been connected with the running of the cursus publicus , the empire-wide postal system created by Augustus for carrying official goods and despatches , and the intermediate stations mansiones and mutationes — along its routes . |
| 27 | I shall not dwell on the comments made by the Leader of the Opposition in 1980 , as they have also been referred to . |
| 28 | They have also been constrained by Britain 's geographic location and limited resources . |
| 29 | They have also been attacked by the courts , with the result that it is difficult to see what practical effect such clauses might be thought to have . |
| 30 | They have also been discussed at planning inquiries across the coal fields as mineral planning authorities have come to conflict with both British Coal 's open-cast Executive and the private operators . |