Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [pers pn] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bruce 's forces were defeated first in Methven wood by the English , and then beside Loch Tay by Comyn 's uncle , the Lord of Lorn The king 's sister and the Countess of Buchan who had crowned him were dragged out of sanctuary where they had been sent for safety , and exhibited in cages hanging from castle walls at Roxburgh and Berwick . |
| 2 | We headed for the 4th Squadron where we had been officially invited by some of the English members . |
| 3 | The ridge seems massive from the road , and when we tried to tell our driver where we 'd been , he grunted in disbelief . |
| 4 | Then , turning , she made way for him to enter , and went immediately to the window seat where she had been sitting wrapped in her duvet when Peter had disturbed her . |
| 5 | JOHN MCKAY , NDO for Management , has been seconded from Glasgow College where he has been Senior Lecturer in Marketing since 1973 . |
| 6 | FitzAlan glanced over his shoulder , turning fully when he saw the ugly discolouration along her cheekbone and the narrow line of dried blood where she had been cut by a ring . |
| 7 | I stared into the mirror , expecting to see huge marks like red flowers blazing on my mouth where I had been kissed , but I looked just the same as I always did . |
| 8 | The police had been called to a youth club where they had been asked by one of the supervisors to assist in excluding trespassers before the evening 's festivities got under way . |
| 9 | Spelt out slightly more fully ( and at the risk of oversimplification ) , this means that a decision is open to review where it has been arrived at as a result of a mistaken view of the law , or where the decision is one that could not reasonably have been arrived at , in the sense that the person deciding must have taken into account irrelevant considerations , or failed to take into account relevant ones , or where he has failed to observe the dictates of natural justice which require him to give the parties a hearing before arriving at his decision . |
| 10 | He began anagramming , twisting letters round , keeping in mind where they had been going , where Mary was still going … |
| 11 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 12 | They came to Bedford from the Luton Public Assistance Institution where they had been assistant master and assistant matron . |
| 13 | There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder . |
| 14 | In the Wedgwood Benn Case 1961 the House of Commons refused to allow Tony Benn to take his seat although he had been duly elected . |
| 15 | Child support will therefore not necessarily be any more reliable or regular in the future than it has been in the past . |
| 16 | If rural areas are to absorb and retain more labour than they have been expected to do in the past then agriculture and other forms of primary production will have a key role to play . |
| 17 | He also knew , however , that if , as now seemed inevitable , Germany were defeated , it would be even harder for Spain to survive economic isolation than it had been hereto . |
| 18 | I my personal opinion a Sloth might be a good analogy although they have been know to get down quicker than John ( i.e falling out of the tree ) |
| 19 | A further uncertainty is whether a legislative text remains ambiguous or obscure for the purposes of the relaxed exclusionary rule once it has been judicially interpreted or construed . |
| 20 | She was even more aware of him in the total blackness than she had been before . |
| 21 | As we have already seen , the law has been less ready to protect these interests from negligently inflicted harm than it has been to protect person and tangible property , but we are now concerned only with liability for intended harm . |
| 22 | There was plenty of flying , sport , and my work on the aircraft was nearer to the pulse of the Air Force than I had been before . |
| 23 | Incredulity in one 's listener is a great silencer , particularly when it verges on ridicule , and Bob was likely to prove a milder critic than I had been . |
| 24 | The British emerged from their wars against Louis XIV in a calmer flame of mind than they had been in during the disturbed and excited seventeenth century . |
| 25 | Not that he could not have held the ball up in that wind if he had been so minded . |
| 26 | It would be extremely unattractive to any group of workers or management to enter a serious bid if they had been told by the Scottish Office that the bid was so contemptible that it would not even qualify for assistance if it failed because another bid from within the same management or work force had been judged as superior . |
| 27 | Byelaws made by a local authority are not in force until they have been confirmed by the Secretary of State . |
| 28 | But no steps were to be taken to put them into effect until they had been communicated to the king , who , when he had satisfied himself that they had been made without prejudice , would decide what was to be done . |
| 29 | no amendment shall have effect until it has been approved by the Inland Revenue . |
| 30 | Where a judgment has been set aside or reversed , the county court office sends a certificate to that effect to the registry to cancel any entry if it has been registered . |