Example sentences of "[verb] been through [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November , he warned that if the likes of IBM and DEC did n't implement drastic measures they 'd go through ‘ Holy Heck ’ — DG has been through that and if the company is confident about one thing , it is that the worst is over . |
| 2 | The Liberal Democratic Party has been through many name changes since the 1987 election . |
| 3 | A former senior minister who has been through many spending rounds says we take them all much too seriously , they are merely a mating ritual , he says , adding , and a barren one at that , no offspring . |
| 4 | The United Kingdom has been through 13 years in which unemployment has more than doubled , irreplaceable assets have been wasted , markets at home and abroad have been lost , manufacturing investment has fallen , poverty has increased , the crime rate has rocketed , and talents have been neglected . |
| 5 | Our Regional Association has been through difficult times , mainly due to isolation and communication problems . |
| 6 | ‘ The North has been through some hard times , and things are changing . |
| 7 | As a result , an Inservice Panel was established in June 1983 , and it has been through this body that project-related INSET development can be traced . |
| 8 | Such legislation has been through detailed preparation including the publication of draft clauses . |
| 9 | Over the years Muir has been through thick and thin with Tranmere , and has been worth his weight in gold . |
| 10 | ‘ The North has been through hard times but things are changing , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Where interiors have survived , it has been through benign neglect . |
| 12 | The car has been through several variations of engine size , but now like an ageing but still beautiful dowager , repeated facelifts can no longer wholly hide the ravages of time and progress . ’ |
| 13 | How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ? |
| 14 | I ferried and drove to Great Neck one weekend to see Maggie , an old friend from the Sixties , who 'd been through three husbands and several transformations since we 'd first been King 's Road freaks together . |
| 15 | You were so much older than me , you 'd been through broken relationships before and knew how to cope with them . |
| 16 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 17 | At last we were able to talk to people who 'd been through this . ’ |
| 18 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 19 | yeah , erm yeah it was different erm with it only being role play it was a bit erm difficult to keep up with it sometimes and actually keep it going like , erm if it was the real life situation outside right you 'd know that the person you were talking to had more had been through that situation before |
| 20 | But may have been through that earlier . |
| 21 | Or it may have been through passive smoking . |
| 22 | Considering how many times he must have been through this script , there are a lot of ‘ ums ’ and ‘ you knows ’ and pauses , but eventually we get there . |
| 23 | It may have been through this same intuitive process that he first decided to move towards the field of Art Education . |
| 24 | These shrubs were cut of fat ground level so that stools developed from which new shoots emerged — the stools can therefore be of very great age , having been through many cycles of cutting . |
| 25 | Going back to fame , to your intimate knowledge of the processes of identification and obsession … having been through various manic fixations , you have progressed to being a star , the subject of fixation yourself . |
| 26 | Having been through that process once , the Social Security Committee is clearly interested in other areas . |
| 27 | having been through that experience with Helen , he 'll be a lot more weary . |
| 28 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 29 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 30 | They had been through all this before , or at least their genes had . |