Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pers pn] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is that where you 've been ? |
| 2 | The curtains were wet where they had been sucked into the fringe of the deluge . |
| 3 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 4 | Her step was much lighter than it had been the previous day , but when she saw that her inquisitor was n't the Obersturmfuhrer , her heart sank . |
| 5 | The often mentioned ‘ crisis ’ in British broadcasting — ‘ crisis ’ , in Gouldner 's phrase , being that the system ‘ may , relatively soon , become something quite different than it has been ’ — thus acts as a backdrop for numerous contemporary analyses of broadcasting . |
| 6 | ( In fact , the French lines there on February 21st were no better prepared than they had been on the Right Bank , and the rejoinder that if he had not had adequate forces he should not have undertaken the offensive in the first place is almost too obvious ) . |
| 7 | On average prices were around 25 per cent lower between 1720 and 1780 than they had been between 1660 and 1680 . |
| 8 | My legs were steadier than they had been the night before but they still dithered weakly . |
| 9 | Bedford was the only new earl created by Edward III after his family settlement in 1362 , and his patronage of the nobility was markedly less generous than it had been in the first two decades of his reign . |
| 10 | Trade unions were in fact in a much stronger position in 1933 than they had been in 1921 or 1922 . |
| 11 | The audience were no surer of this than they had been of the song . |
| 12 | The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers . |
| 13 | Well , he was more interested than he has been given credit for , and he had a wonderful collection of eighteenth-century English books which he gave to Trinity College , Cambridge . |
| 14 | Tom and Francis remained quite friendly until — ’ She changed her mind about continuing , which made Delia Sutherland more interested than she had been . |
| 15 | Some of Britain 's rivers are now cleaner than they 've been for years . |
| 16 | At first they seemed brighter , smaller and cruder than she had been led to expect by the polite reproductions . |
| 17 | John Stevenson feels that this urban migration was important in restructuring the population of Britain , although Glynn and Oxborrow argue that this internal migration was less marked than it had been in the nineteenth century — being about one third of its former level . |
| 18 | Although the influence of Cubism on the German painters was less direct than it had been in the development of Futurism ( the work of Delaunay which the Germans most admired , for instance , was no longer really Cubist at all ) , unlike the Italians the Germans made no attempt to disguise their interest in the movement , and several of the artists of the Blaue Reiter actually thought of themselves as Cubist painters . |
| 19 | Certainly Churchill and Eden found that their dealings with Eisenhower and Dulles were no easier than they had been with the Democrats : in fact they often thought them worse . |
| 20 | It is likely that under those agreements extradition within Europe would in future be easier than it has been in the past , which I think the hon. Gentleman would welcome . |
| 21 | It 's easier once you 've been done . |
| 22 | Actually it 's easier once you 've been done cos then you have an appreciation of what 's |
| 23 | Bans had to be introduced to give the fish stocks time to recover , and they are better now in the 1980's than they have been since the mid-1960's . |
| 24 | Jim Bob says that no way would they have done this if it had been their money , and hopes that everyone got the joke . |
| 25 | I would n't have got to wear this if I 'd been a factory worker . ’ |
| 26 | The thing about the Paddies is that some of them can pass as English if they 've been brought up here . |
| 27 | The demonstration should not go wrong if it has been adequately rehearsed beforehand . |
| 28 | While it may be straightforward to assess whether a lease is renewed properly or a contract accurately drafted — it will soon be clear if they have been or not — these transactions do n't carry much potential for building long-term relationships or adding value through additional services . |
| 29 | It would be equally grave if it had been a burglary charge but he was facing one of the most serious allegations you could make . |
| 30 | Resistance might have been easier if he had been , not that her belief that he was had been enough to stop her succumbing to him once . |