Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the technology used in the Macintosh came via Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Centre where they had also been investigating page printing technology and methods of transferring complex graphics between screens and the printed page . |
| 2 | The chronicler Roger of Wendover wrote that at the Council of Oxford in 1227 , ‘ the King caused to be cancelled and annulled all the charters of liberties of the forest , although they had already been in force in the whole realm for two years ’ : the earls who rebelled in July were said to have compelled the king to restore the charters by the threat of armed force . |
| 3 | At the beginning of the Triassic the dominant land animals were the mammal-like reptiles , the synapsids , although they had already been badly affected by dramatic events at the end of the Permian ; catastrophic events of the kind that are now known to have turned the course of Earth 's history several times . |
| 4 | Certainly by the last third of the nineteenth century the influences were becoming more noted although they had always been there . |
| 5 | Her son and his family regarded the instrument as the key to ‘ their ’ home , just as they regarded Haifa as ‘ their ’ town although they had never been there . |
| 6 | The two of them , closer in death than they 'd ever been in life . |
| 7 | They needed British and West European support more than they had previously been prepared to admit . |
| 8 | In the course of the 1950s , the first signs appeared that the tactics used by Franco since 1936 to stay in power — repression , appeals for unity , apocalyptic visions of Republican " chaos " , and himself as arbiter among fractious regime forces — were less effective than they had previously been . |
| 9 | The bonds linking the brothers ended up stronger than they had ever been . |
| 10 | For a while my self-loathing and judgement of self went deeper than they had ever been in my life . |
| 11 | They were nearer tonight than they had ever been . |
| 12 | She realized she was down from the morph-plus , and that her senses were sharper than they had ever been before . |
| 13 | Nominating procedures were now more open and participatory than they had ever been before . |
| 14 | In consequence the Crown estates were by the time of his death probably larger than they had ever been before . |
| 15 | Franco-Scottish ties were stronger than they had ever been . |
| 16 | There were hints that they too saw signs in our future ; in second year our history teacher told us that things were easier now for Catholics than they had ever been , that we could have a place in the world , that there was even a chance that a Catholic would be President of the United States after the next election . |
| 17 | Richard and Beth were hers at last , the family she had been cruelly denied ; because of love , and guilt and shame , they were closer now than they had ever been . |
| 18 | He went on to repeat the Prime Minister 's bland assurance that , far from experiencing poverty , most students were better off than they had ever been before . |
| 19 | It 's a complete turnaround from last year when reserves were lower than they had ever been recorded , standpipes were in the streets , and some rivers had run dry , notably at Bourton on the Water . |
| 20 | In the debate Lord Holland recognised the dread among the upper classes that the lower orders might be seduced by subversive principles , " particularly afloat at this moment " , but also considered that some masters were taking advantage of this moment to " enforce their views and render their workmen more dependent than they had hitherto been and than in all fairness and equity they ought to be " . |
| 21 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 22 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 23 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |
| 24 | The other odd thing , she realised , was that they 'd never been on holiday to France . |
| 25 | All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched . |
| 26 | The defendants admitted that they had both been drinking heavily on the night of the offences . |
| 27 | It was true that they had mostly been forgotten , left unappreciated . |
| 28 | Pupils themselves disliked the way that they had previously been divided from one another ; and although there had been considerable advances made in the early 1980s in running joint CSE/GCE courses and examinations , these were patchy and voluntary , and unlikely to have been acceptable to the more academic of those who had an interest in the outcome of the examinations , especially the universities . |
| 29 | An army spokesman pointed out to journalists that the men were being held under anti-terrorist legislation and added that they had already been interrogated and had been ‘ singing like birds ’ , a phrase from the criminal underworld implying that they had confessed to crimes . |
| 30 | The crew , themselves , felt that they had already been changed by the experience and some were a little anxious about the future . |