Example sentences of "they have [adv] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've both been free for years . |
| 2 | and they 've never been late to their jobs |
| 3 | They 've never been hard on me on times to come in and that , but he 's great now . |
| 4 | Get a divorce they , they 've never been happy at all since they 've been married have they ? |
| 5 | I do n't think there 's a very great deal in the way of er lighting fittings one can talk about erm in houses in Harlow , it 's er , there 's a , a distinct difference between the light , a lot , lot of architects in , in Harlow have lived in Harlow you see and they will go in for all the very latest type of lighting fittings erm and because they have er access to the books for the various er designers of lighting fittings er , generally though , they , the majority of the people in the town er have come from er London boroughs and erm they view the same kind of lighting fittings they 've always been used to . |
| 6 | No matter what Bob says or Harry or any other member of the Conservative group , and I accept that they 've always been consistent on it the same as the Labour group has always been consistently against the merger I accept that they 've been consistently in favour of a total merger . |
| 7 | No , no I 've never been down and er they 've always been full of water whenever I 've been up around there . |
| 8 | Very good , very , very good , no I think as I say the only thing I said to Mr I told him that I 'm very upset because I 've always been treated ever so fair by him I mean they 've really been good to us , you ca n't say they 're not , I mean no other Council I do n't think is as good as Harlow Council , well I say that because I know by my friends who live away they 're not er , they do n't get half the benefits that they get here , I mean we are looked after are n't we ? |
| 9 | Many have multiple thin trunks growing up from the ground — they 've obviously been coppiced in the past . |
| 10 | Ever since the Mountbatten thing , they 've all been nervous of the publicity . |
| 11 | What Tolkien took from that passage ( and others ) was , in short , the ideas that elves were like angels ; that they had however been involved in a ‘ Fall ’ ; that their fate at Doomsday is not clear ( for men ‘ shall join in the Second Music of the Ainur ’ , elves perhaps not , S , p. 42 ) , that they are associated with the Earthly Paradise , and can not die till the end of the world . |
| 12 | They had probably been married for some thirty-odd years , perhaps longer . |
| 13 | They had already been unlucky with just five minutes remaining in normal time , when Neil Webb 's shot cannoned back off the foot of the post . |
| 14 | They had already been alone in the house for 24 hours . |
| 15 | They had already been parachute-trained at Ringway near Manchester and were led by the redoubtable Commandant Bergé , whom Stirling later acknowledged as a co-founder of the SAS . |
| 16 | It was argued that such covenants are often contained in conveyances , leases and mortgages , and that they had never been subject to the doctrine of restraint of trade and consequently the test of reasonableness . |
| 17 | Many , for example , talked about the gangs they had once been involved in but these gangs , if they remained at all , were not , as one Town Boy said , ‘ a shadow of what they used to be ’ . |
| 18 | After dinner in the drawing-room the children , fierce now with the determination to stay awake on such an evening — for even though dinner had been very early to accommodate them , they had all been awake since dawn — clamoured for games . |
| 19 | They had all been hard at work ever since . |
| 20 | They had all been lucky to be seen out with him . |
| 21 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 22 | He asked them to adopt a more professional approach , to harden their attitude and not capitulate when things became tough , as they had sometimes been prone to . |
| 23 | They have also been successful in encouraging many traditional pet shops to sell pre-packed pet foods , rather than loose from a sack . |
| 24 | Not only have the churches in Britain significantly failed to appeal to those within artisan cultures , they have also been unsuccessful in attracting those of other races from among the West Indian and Asian communities . |
| 25 | They have also been responsible for many symposia and meetings for specialists in the field of venereology . |
| 26 | But they have also been busy in the transfer market , making a £2 million bid for Coventry striker Kevin Gallacher , a £1 million offer for Wimbledon 's Robbie Earle and a £1.8 million move for Dons ' defender Terry Phelan . |
| 27 | a letter from a grant awarding authority confirming eligibility for a mandatory award ( students not receiving an award , e.g. those repeating a year , should provide evidence that they have previously been eligible for an award ) ; |
| 28 | Does the Foreign Secretary agree that an international conference as proposed simply would not succeed unless Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities admit that they have both been responsible for atrocities and extremism ? |
| 29 | None of your so-called friends look as if they have exactly been renowned for their brains , do they ? ’ |
| 30 | Yet with their rousing cricket , built around the fearsome fast bowling duet of Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis and boosted by an array of dazzling stroke-makers , they have sadly been guilty of abusing opponents , rounding on umpires and blatant dissent . |