Example sentences of "[pron] have been [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the intervening year , nothing has been done to right the wrongs of the decade , so what profit has been gleaned in the first year of the new leadership of the Conservative party ? |
| 2 | And practically nothing has been done to establish effective machinery of joint conference between the representative organizations entitled to speak for industry as a whole . |
| 3 | Back at catering HQ Liz ensures that the fridges are locked , that the valves on the washing-up machines are open and that nothing has been left switched on . |
| 4 | Nothing has been allowed to stand in the way of the sector 's progress towards profitability . |
| 5 | Tolonen described Noorda 's role as one involving strategy and planning rather than day-to-day operations , adding ‘ We have a very strong group of executives — we have looked at various times at succession , ’ although no-one has been designated to succeed . |
| 6 | When someone has been asked to make over on death whatever remains of an inheritance , and from the price of objects sold buys other objects , he is not regarded as having diminished [ the estate ] in respect of the objects sold … but the objects thus bought should be made over in place of the ownership which has changed … . |
| 7 | but the fact that , in an open court of law , someone has been shown to have failed to meet their credit obligations without sound reason must have a bearing on whether or not it is sensible to lend to them again — both from their own personal point of view ( whether or not they will find the payments an unduly heavy burden ) and from the pint of view of consumers generally , whose credit costs must rise if the level of bad debt rises . |
| 8 | Since childhood , I 'd been taught to keep everything to myself — problems , opinions , feelings . |
| 9 | ‘ Because I learned by accident INCUBUS was trying to take over his company — and exactly the same thing had happened with another industrialist I 'd been asked to draw up a profile for . ’ |
| 10 | I would have thought how stupid it was if I 'd been made do it . |
| 11 | I feel that it was actually so quick — not at all what I 'd been led to expect from antenatal classes — that I could n't savour the birth or get used to the idea . |
| 12 | If I 'd been seen popping in and out of Ramillies Drive , tongues would inevitably have begun to wag . |
| 13 | Had been appalled to discover , through the industry grapevine , that I 'd been allowed to continue with the assignment after taking such a beating from ben Issachar . |
| 14 | Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work . |
| 15 | At first I thought I 'd been commissioned to rewrite The Archers theme . |
| 16 | But after years of the DHSS , it really was the first time I 'd been spoken to like a human being . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd been advised to wait nine to 12 months so that my blood levels could go down , ’ she says . |
| 18 | My only child — I 'd been advised to have no more — and Celia saved her life . |
| 19 | This cost-effective nature of a scholarship was a matter I had been asked to justify when I first asked my new assistant chief constable about the potential of postgraduate research as an ‘ observing participator ’ . |
| 20 | I put on my shoes and jacket which I had been asked to take off and told the doctor I would visit her another time . |
| 21 | I had been asked to consult Geoff Tulloch . |
| 22 | I had been asked to let her know the minute I saw his car arrive . |
| 23 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 24 | If I had been asked to decorate a flat to reflect McIllvanney 's character then I would have given him an East Belfast bar with sawdust scattered on the floor , King Billy strutting on the walls , and blood splattered across its tobacco-stained ceiling . |
| 25 | It was something I had been raised to believe in , so the idea of living with him , even temporarily , had an illicit feel to it . |
| 26 | Then , later , I believed that I had been born to die for someone . |
| 27 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
| 28 | ( I had been led to believe that God lived in Ol Doinyo Lengai . |
| 29 | I had not realised that it was even more complicated than I had been led to believe originally . |
| 30 | After I had been kept waiting for a few moments in an ante-room , I was ushered into the main boardroom where Dr Barton and six colleagues were seated around a long , rectangular , polished table . |