Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [pers pn] have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PENALTY : If an amount is shown in respect of a penalty or penalties being recovered under the bill and you have not previously been informed of the ground on which it has or they have been imposed , further particulars will be found in the information accompanying the bill . |
| 2 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 3 | In [ 17 ] the author writes that he had been saying that Gardner looked very square : But of course Carver had not actually said that Gardner looked very square , at least not in the Gricean ( Grice 1981 ) sense of the word . |
| 4 | By the end of it , Theridamas accepts that he has been ‘ won with thy words ’ , and this shows how influential Tamburlaine is with his words over other people . |
| 5 | Well it 's , it looks like it 's been cooking . |
| 6 | It looks like it 's been on the M twenty five on a Friday night , and every tyre 's been over it . |
| 7 | Should n't worry about it mine never looks like it 's been combed in any case ! |
| 8 | You look at a mail box in the United States and it looks like it 's been abandoned , just barely bolted to the ground any more . |
| 9 | Although it is based on a mudane Chrysler Concorde saloon , the two-seater version looks like it has been driven straight off the set of ‘ American Graffiti ’ . |
| 10 | Women like the fact that he looks like he 's been rolling around in hay . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not too keen on Katie Jane , though , she looks like she 's been pulled through a hedge backwards , and all this drinking out of a baby 's bottle , it sounds like she 's using it as a gimmick . |
| 12 | Yeah , she thinks that she 's been big already |
| 13 | Mike says that they 've been working hard to organise the trip — and is not bothered about the risk of visiting the country . |
| 14 | In addition to normal responsibilities , which include making new investments , approaching new potential customers and keeping existing customers happy , Mr Queen says that they have been trying to educate the professional community to recognise when a company is going to need more working capital . |
| 15 | He says that they have been using the shaft for dumping substances . |
| 16 | He says that it has been the foundation of Europe 's post-war success , the implication being that we must adopt the same system in Britain if we are to become a modern , prosperous nation . |
| 17 | Fosse believe that the Advantage system is the first such system to be designed specifically for tennis and says that it has been its most successful introduction into the game with over 200 installations in the last four years . |
| 18 | In designing the system , NuTek says that it has been very careful to avoid any contact with former Apple employees , and kept under constant review the status of Apple patents and copyrights throughout the world . |
| 19 | The system is based around Siemens ' Vision Optimised Network Evolution programme , although GEC Plessey says that it has been the developer of the services to be offered and will manage the planned Asynchronous Transfer Mode evolution . |
| 20 | Rainow , Cheshire-based Eden says that it has been working with unnamed telecommunications operators and user groups on the design of the phone , and envisages both business customers and consumers being interested in the device . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , he says that it has been difficult to avoid the wholesale abandonment of a fascinating liturgical and musical tradition which had sound scholarly foundations . |
| 22 | It says that it has been urging motor manufacturers to make cars more secure since 1961 . |
| 23 | He says that it has been known for drugs to be smuggled in large packages . |
| 24 | He says that it 's been very delicate work , but they think that they have found all the bones . |
| 25 | However , Sally Kuenssberg , a specialist in children 's panel training in the department of adult and continuing education , says that she has been appointed as an individual with experience of the needs of children . |
| 26 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |
| 27 | I want to see what happened , er , it finished just where he says that he 'd been accused of something . |
| 28 | His daughter says that he had been ill — the slight differences in his signature might be due to illness . " |
| 29 | The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West ( Mr. Randall ) assumes that I have been sitting drinking cups of coffee and not talking to people about the issues . |
| 30 | But what happens if we have been sent here to die , one by one ? ’ |