Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As the Party has grown it has been able to achieve representation in local government to the point of having controlling power on some councils , it has had a major voice in the first Assembly , the Convention , and the second Assembly , and it has elected representatives at Westminster and the European Parliament .
2 By now a consequence has emerged which has been implicit from the first in the whole enterprise of grounding valuation in awareness , that Good has now the same claims to objectivity as Truth .
3 It has meant we have been able to bring out this newsletter in double quick time .
4 A lot of ‘ behind the scenes ’ work has meant there has been little news to report for some months on the A1 Locomotive Trust 's plans to build Peppercorn Pacific No 60163 .
5 I 've got to go listen it 's been lovely t talk to talk talking to you if you could pop in with a bottle of I wanted to try the new Beaujo If anybody 's got it and they come over , just ring the ring the door bell .
6 But within six months she 'd known she had been right , and she had now reached the stage where she thoroughly enjoyed her work .
7 Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength .
8 If you 've got points you 've been unable to answer you 've got to make them part of the report back which wastes yet more valuable practitioner time . ’
9 I like to think I 've been helpful to somebody else , so that they do n't make the same mistake as I made , or so that they know the responsibilities they 're taking on if they do have the baby .
10 The sharpness of the terror he had felt during her illness had revealed to him just how much he loved her , and once she began to recover he had been afraid that they would never again be able to talk simply as friends .
11 I would have given anything to have been able to do something , particularly since nobody else seemed interested in assisting , but Granny was a difficult person to help and I was young and afraid of horses .
12 Although he failed to check it had been accident-free , he assured the lady that this was the case .
13 ‘ That act was devised by men , and men choose to pretend it has been effective .
14 ‘ You 'd better 'oppit now or me young man might get to 'ear I 've been dilly-dallying with you . ’
15 Now he was forced to admit he had been wrong .
16 The Minister can not fail to acknowledge what has been common knowledge in the combined heat and power industry — that the major block is electricity prices .
17 because I 've noticed he 's been sleepy he 's all blocked up all all over there .
18 Earlier , Det Sgt John Clark had said he had been involved in meetings with other police forces all over the country after a number of raids on TSB branches in which cash dispensers were forced open using oxy-acetylene equipment .
19 She then told me of a child she had had who had been still-born .
20 The handshake with which she had greeted him had been cool and firm and her brief smile was surprisingly attractive .
21 Then he had spoilt it by saying that his reasons for leaving Australia had been personal , and she had assumed he had been involved in a similar situation to that with Jennifer .
22 The elections of December 1965 and March 1967 had confirmed what had been clear in the elections of 1962 : that his political base was , in fact , partisan rather than truly national .
23 When he had begun she had been inclined to send him off or run away herself ; but his determination had kept her listening and she had watched him walk away with his plan — it was more of a plan than a proposal — well lodged in her mind and unexpectedly endearing .
24 Professor MacFee had read it had been startled by its undoubted merit , and had carefully discussed it chapter by chapter with him , suggesting how to improve it .
25 John Major and Albert Reynolds have said there has been some progress in talks on the future of Northern Ireland .
26 Eastern winds have brought what had been fair sport back to a normal level for the time of year .
27 However , I have to say I have been disappointed that through TOP we are not managing to achieve more .
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