Example sentences of "[subord] we have [been] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our next destination was the West Coast and we stopped first at Arthur 's Pass , where we 'd been invited to stay in a tramping hut but it was under repair , so we stayed in a backpackers ' . |
| 2 | However , the know-how fund is doing extremely good work throughout the former Soviet republics , where we have been asked for that help , as it is in the rest of central and eastern Europe . |
| 3 | But there may have been incidents where we have been involved . |
| 4 | Market Opportunities where we have been retained by vendors and where a sales memorandum has been prepared . |
| 5 | CCG have been retained by NEI/ABB on the site of National Power 's new power station at Killingholme and at Powergen 's Killingholme combined Cycle Power Plant where we have been retained by Siemens plc . |
| 6 | Two Spanish climbers above us were working on the overhanging 6b pitches and although we 'd been told you could aid the whole section it was obvious from the stance that the bolts were too far apart . |
| 7 | Although we 'd been left pretty much to our own devices in the last months in the Pit , the year and a half underground had become increasingly depressing . |
| 8 | Answer guide : The point being illustrated here is that although we have been told the finite life of the machine and we are aware of the reasons for the loss in utility we still have to make estimates of when the machine will cease to be useful . |
| 9 | Using contrary approaches — by examining the work of popularisers such as T. H. Huxley and John Tyndall , and by looking beyond the superficial , anti-scientific statements of imaginative writers — she has revealed an intellectual and emotional agreement far closer than we have been led to believe . |
| 10 | ‘ If we can expose their dependence on feminizing women , ’ she says , we can show that this world system is also dependent on artificial notions of masculinity : this seemingly overwhelming world system may be more fragile and open to radical change than we have been led to imagine . |
| 11 | Possibly , the medieval Sussex peasant was much more fastidious than we have been taught to think . |
| 12 | ‘ So we 've been robbed , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Denice is never late , so we 've been told , and she 's due to arrive at any moment . |
| 14 | ‘ Even hardened criminals do not harm wives and girlfriends , so we have been told . |
| 15 | In a disused limestone quarry we tackled one of these obstacles safely , once we had been told how to do it . |
| 16 | ‘ The court is endlessly being adjourned and I could easily come and collect you once we 've been let out . ’ |
| 17 | Once we have been triggered into feeling the loss of someone who was important the grieving process is more likely to be able to start . |
| 18 | We can not remember anyone ever asking us these questions and we are not sure we could have given a reasonable answer until we had been married nearly twenty years . |
| 19 | We feel like we 've been thrust into , deflowered by the smirking , brutal world . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's right , ’ replied the other Commando , ‘ If we had been screwed down by these Nazi bastards for four years , we would be doing more than pinching their boots . ’ |
| 21 | Even if the courts purported only to be concerned with the fairness of the process of policy making and not with the substance of the policies made , it is very difficult to draw a sharp distinction between process and substance : complaints about process are usually , at bottom , complaints about substance — ‘ if we had been treated fairly , the outcome would have been different ’ . |
| 22 | If we had been asked , at the issue desk , whether we wanted to return separately , then I could understand it ; but we were NOT ASKED . |
| 23 | They were considered lawful game for these men as if we had been conquered . |
| 24 | QUOTE : ONE JUST wondered if we had been provided with all the changes of the new laws relating to lbws . |
| 25 | This kind of maladaptive feature would be hard to explain if we had been designed by an all-wise creator , but is to be expected if structures change their functions in the course of evolution . |
| 26 | We have won the City 's support to raise the money , as we did for Staley and our other North American acquisitions — and as we would have done if we had been allowed to buy British Sugar . ’ |
| 27 | If we 'd been engaged , I might have thought you 'd come to give me back my ring . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If we 'd been pounced upon a year ago we 'd have had maybe one good song and we would have been shit and not ready , without our style defined . ’ |
| 29 | If we 'd been forced like myself I believe in a couple of years ' time , I will not be able to enjoy the pension fund that I 'm in at the moment we will have a problem , and we need to deal with that problem , and we need to raise the issue now and have a strategy , and I think it 's the G M B's to take a leading role in looking at this . |
| 30 | She was ambitious , and I liked that — but if we 'd been married her ambitions and mine would have clashed at every turn . ’ |