Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal problem about them has generally been said to be that of their meaning or semantics . |
| 2 | Now several alternative notations are available , and no attempt to evaluate all of them has yet been made . |
| 3 | Neither of them has ever been cooped up in kennels . ’ |
| 4 | Prince Jan Lubomirski , who managed to buy his castle of Kruszyna back from the local council for a symbolic zloty ( they refused Barbara Johnson 's offer of millions in a fine gesture of patriarchal loyalty ) , can not get the Lodz Museum to return the set of family portraits removed from it , even though none of them has ever been exhibited since being confiscated . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | " 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 . |
| 7 | I know that nothing has ever been proved against the man , but you 've heard the rumours about how he tries to pressurise people . ’ |
| 8 | Studies of many thousands of people have shown that no-one has ever been infected through kissing . |
| 9 | why in due course , if proper use is made of native institutions , those races which are now subject should not take their places in the ranks of that group of allied nations , as they may I think rightly be called , which forms the [ self-governing ] British Empire … |
| 10 | Looking back I can now see that some of the happenings through which I lived professionally were destined to be profound and far reaching in their impact and to become milestones of educational change . |
| 11 | Maybe someone has already been lined up , though the post has been advertised . |
| 12 | Nothing I say hereafter is intended to relate to the second decision . |
| 13 | When the facts or events I mentioned above are put together in sequence , and when they are set into the background of recent developments , then a different and far more worrying interpretation begins to appear . |
| 14 | They probably thought , at that time of the afternoon , that I 'd just been made redundant . |
| 15 | To judge by your face , you 'd have thought I 'd just been sentenced to hang , not thrown a lifeline . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 17 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 18 | Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd previously been trained in management and I did n't want to be an audio typist . |
| 20 | Even though I 'd eventually been allowed my inhaler and eye ointment in Holloway , it had all been taken off me again . |
| 21 | ‘ On its own , perhaps not , but I 'd also been told that day that people believed you and an English journalist who lives here , James Cobalt , were making enquiries about drug trafficking . |
| 22 | Er , I 'd been told er that he 'd been in prison with Mr er I believe it was in nineteen eighty six and I 'd also been told that in the past er and er had planned armed robberies together . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd best be gone . ’ |
| 24 | There was the beer keg I 'd been tied to and the length of wire I 'd probably been tied with lay on the floor . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd never been asked to do anything like it before and it is a little eccentric . |
| 26 | No , I 'd never been given that option . |
| 27 | ‘ I wish I 'd never been born . |
| 28 | ‘ If they 've hurt a single nome they 'll wish I 'd never been born , ’ said Masklin . |
| 29 | I wish I 'd never been born ! ’ |
| 30 | But my father heard about it , he bailed me out , got a lawyer , and they dismissed the case in the end because I 'd never been paid . |