Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , most people publish in the hope that their findings will continue to be relevant long after the particular theory to which they have attached them has been finally laid to rest . |
| 2 | In particular , the number of stopping places available to them has been drastically reduced over a period of three or four decades during which the travelling population has been on the increase , although I have not been able to discover the measure of it . |
| 3 | True each of them has been finely tuned . |
| 4 | The economic differences between a farmer and his workers are as wide today as they ever were ( probably wider when wealth as well as income is taken into account ) , but the social distance between them has been considerably reduced . |
| 5 | And , while nothing has been officially announced , change is understood to be being considered for Aldershot 's ‘ collocated ’ catering training schools . |
| 6 | ‘ How can you be so utterly selfish as to uproot the child from her home and school at this stage , when nothing has been finally decided by the court ? |
| 7 | The issue becomes especially important where , as a result of questioning , and without the benefit of the correct conditions or the advice from the solicitor , access to whom has been wrongly denied , the suspect makes a damaging confession which the police later try to rely upon at the trial in order to secure a conviction . |
| 8 | But you see , if I 'd been properly organised , none of these disasters would have happened . |
| 9 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |
| 10 | I 'd been so used to my , freedom . |
| 11 | I guess it was the first time really in my life I 'd been totally left on my own . |
| 12 | I 'd been too diverted by the Unwins ' rejoicings . |
| 13 | But oh , she thought , tearlessly watching Mrs Greville leave , how could I have been so deceived — and twice at that … ? |
| 14 | I had been particularly struck by William Rees-Mogg 's column in the Independent on the day after the first leadership ballot . |
| 15 | I had been both committed and non-committal . |
| 16 | I do not really like being touched by a stranger since I had been mildly attacked as a child , but something told me this was no casual greeting . |
| 17 | I had no doubt then that I had been unfairly judged , but I am older and wiser now and in retrospect I think I was wrong . |
| 18 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 19 | Would I had been so created ! |
| 20 | ‘ Brush ’ was the operative word , for I had been almost swept into oblivion . |
| 21 | She could not have known how very distressing I had found the parting of mother and child ; how I had been almost haunted by the memory of that day , of the poignancy of a mother kissing her baby goodbye . |
| 22 | When Miss Temple received a letter from Dr Lloyd , agreeing that what I had said was true , she told the whole school that I had been wrongly accused and was not a liar . |
| 23 | My turn to die had come and I had been inexplicably reprieved . |
| 24 | However , I had been much influenced , as an undergraduate , by the lectures of the literary critic ( author of The Language Poets use ) , who was now a senior colleague in my own Department . |
| 25 | I had been quite spoilt by now and anyway I had had my fill of walking alongside modern day roads , so I took the bus to Lochranza . |
| 26 | I suppose , after all , I 've had it since ‘ 66 , so I 've been well known for 26 years , which is a long time , and I do n't get anything much out of it any more . ’ |
| 27 | The reason for installing QRAM is that I 've been repeatedly informed that one should always free up as much Conventional memory as possible . |
| 28 | But to tell the truth , for a long time I 've been slightly lost as a dealer . |
| 29 | I think I 've been sadistically grouped ! |
| 30 | Yes , it 's been available for months now — but I 've been reliably informed that the 3.5-inch drive is going to be re -launched , hopefully with a sizeable catalogue of software titles to accompany it . |