Example sentences of "which they [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Three members of the audience were then selected at random and , having ascertained that they had no objection , were hypnotised and , while in the hypnotic state , were asked those questions which they had formerly been unable to answer .
2 The local gentry and others were presented for taking the deer , which they had probably been accustomed to do for generations with little interference .
3 Abolitionists were also therefore demanding direct intervention by the imperial government to end a species of property and override the role of local assemblies with which they had earlier been prepared to collaborate .
4 There was some shrapnel in one of his legs which they had never been able to get out .
5 I am sure she speaks for many people in the village who are alarmed and distressed at the school conflict , of which they have probably been aware only since the parents ' petition .
6 These are all examples of ways in which people learn to live with long-term social difficulties which they have not been able to change .
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