Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know Alan from the England set-up , and everyone has always been impressed with his work . ’ |
| 2 | Furthermore , nothing has yet been said about all the research that does not depend on the collection of data by the sociologist ( primary data ) but instead makes use of secondary data — the wealth of material already available from other sources , such as government statistics , personal diaries , newspapers , and other kinds of information . |
| 3 | " If nothing has yet been settled with regard to Ald. Hallam 's gift of a thousand pounds , it seems to me well worth considering whether it would not be more advantageous to the School to endow a " Hallam Lectureship in Natural Science " than to found a scholarship . |
| 4 | I know that nothing has ever been proved against the man , but you 've heard the rumours about how he tries to pressurise people . ’ |
| 5 | No-one has ever been able to explain precisely why the tropical forests and coral reefs contain so many species , but the two habitats do have several obvious features in common . |
| 6 | Studies of many thousands of people have shown that no-one has ever been infected through kissing . |
| 7 | Maybe someone has already been lined up , though the post has been advertised . |
| 8 | Someone had not been very intelligent , he thought . |
| 9 | It seemed odd , anyway , to be holding a kind of celebratory dinner , the original highspot of the weekend , when someone had just been killed in the very kitchen where the preparations were taking place . |
| 10 | Someone had undoubtedly been listening , and been caught by the abrupt ending to the conversation . |
| 11 | As I walked towards the hut , I saw that someone had certainly been using it . |
| 12 | But peering more closely he could see that someone had recently been writing with a fountain pen . |
| 13 | Nobody has even been better in bed than Constanza and Ludovico . ’ |
| 14 | His swift denial — ‘ Nobody has even been in contact with me from Gosforth , ’ — was followed by his confirmation that Moseley were making inquiries . |
| 15 | Nobody has yet been discovered who maintains any semblance of normal health without sleeping . |
| 16 | The problem of evil has exercised people in all three traditions of historical monotheism and nobody has ever been able to find a logical way of reconciling it with the concept of the one God . |
| 17 | But nobody has ever been able to decide which . |
| 18 | Somebody has n't been figuring too well , Jackson . |
| 19 | The peo the machine only goes off bad if somebody has n't been maintaining it . |
| 20 | They walked on , thinking of This and That , and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap , which is sixty-something trees in a circle ; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four , not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it . |
| 21 | ‘ You must go , ’ he said , as if nobody had ever been there but him . |
| 22 | But that was less surprising than that somebody had still been issuing such certificates in the chaos that had been Germany , just three weeks before the final surrender . |
| 23 | Fogg ( 1977 ) and others have suggested that other key elements or nutrients may be used up , but none has yet been identified as limiting . |
| 24 | But what becomes of them is a mystery , for none has ever been found , even in deep Atlantic . |
| 25 | He was a free-thinker — one whose thoughts ranged widely over every unorthodox idea , forging connections where none had previously been contemplated . |
| 26 | ( In reality , none had even been invited . ) |
| 27 | A villager who had played in the open fields as a boy , or watched the sheep in the common pastures , would have lived to see the modern landscape of his parish completed and matured , the roads all made , the hedgerow trees full grown , and new farmhouses built out in the fields where none had ever been before . |
| 28 | None had ever been diagnosed as having colorectal polyps before our examination . |
| 29 | But he could equally well have said one is enthusiasm and the other is cynicism , one is facility and the other is aridity , one is gregariousness and the other is solitude , one is the belief that no one has ever done anything of value before and the other is the belief that everything has already been done , one is spontaneity and the other is cerebration , one is joy and the other is despair , one is heart and the other is mind , one is the garret and the other is the penthouse , one is sincerity and the other is irony , one is Jung and the other is Freud , one is Rimbaud and the other is Mallarmé , one is wine and the other is coffee , one is rags and the other is riches , one is women and the other is celibacy , one is health and the other is disease , one is meat and the other is vegetables , one is life and the other is death , one is everything in upper case and the other is everything in lower case , one is everything in roman and the other is everything in italics . |
| 30 | Jalhousie is an all-inclusive resort which means that when you arrive everything has already been paid for . |