Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pers pn] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 3 | She was still in love with the man , and the knowledge threatened to crumble the defences she 'd been steadfastly attempting to rebuild all day . |
| 4 | The parents were outraged ; the managers had got the opportunity they had been waiting for . |
| 5 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 6 | " This could be the opportunity you 've been waiting for , " she said slowly , her eyes black shadows in her face . |
| 7 | What I 'd say to you is , do n't mess up and throw away the opportunity you 've been given , because if you do you 'll only have yourself to blame . |
| 8 | As Tory backbenchers cheered , the Chancellor said : ‘ British business now has the opportunity it has been looking for — to bring the country out of recession , to increase sales , expand production and invest for the future . |
| 9 | Pulling a little face , she carefully folded the tea-towel she 'd been using and laid it on the work surface . |
| 10 | Having given this example of structuring I perhaps need to make clear some of the terminology I have been using before looking at more examples . |
| 11 | They see a car coming from the direction they 've been told , and remember , it 's after one in the morning . |
| 12 | BELVILLE : [ still unforgiving ] After the meanness you have been guilty of you have fallen very low with me . |
| 13 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 14 | They were proof that the support we had been convinced was out there really did exist . |
| 15 | The Business Location Service is extremely grateful for the support it has been given and looks forward to even greater success with its partners in the year ahead . |
| 16 | The following morning you washed the shirt you 'd been wearing , the pullover and the trousers . |
| 17 | If he is lying , however , they deserved all the shit they 've been put through — and a lorry load more . |
| 18 | Patients presenting with clinical evidence of gastrointestinal haemorrhage were endoscoped urgently , the source of bleeding identified , and appropriate treatment instituted including endoscopic sclerotherapy irrespective of which arm of the trial they had been randomised to . |
| 19 | He denied any guns had been involved in the raid although Mr Beaton had said earlier in the trial he had been told he would be shot if he tried anything stupid . |
| 20 | I mean , for ‘ O ’ level composition , certainly for the Board we 've been doing here , it was continuing a melody ; set pattern eight bars ; modulation ; answering phrase ; … harmonizing in four parts ; set chords … so it was never free composition . |
| 21 | Penelope , however , it had to be acknowledged , had made no attempt to rise above the blow she had been dealt by finding a dazzling girl of her own age favoured over herself in her uncle 's will . |
| 22 | Then , impossible though this seemed given the blow it had been struck , the form started to haul itself to its feet . |
| 23 | The man gave a grunt , which was the permission we had been waiting for , and I ran all the way back to my flat to change and conduct the concert . |
| 24 | So please make those contacts , so that you can erm , make arrangements to discuss , obviously things of mutual concern , promptly please , to your seminars , when we will continue some of the discussions we 've been having this morning , and thank you all very much indeed . |
| 25 | She found herself telling him about the Vermeer she had been painstakingly copying , and then with a shudder of its destruction . |
| 26 | They use the money they have been given to buy services from hospitals or community units either in their own districts or elsewhere . |
| 27 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |
| 28 | Ella silenced her arguments in one fell swoop by producing the money she had been saving from her grant all the months Eva had been at university . |
| 29 | Now he would have to return the money he had been given to put names forward for the vacancies . |
| 30 | The exclusion of the courts It has been argued so far that the methods of control and accountability introduced by the 1985 Act leave much to be desired . |