Example sentences of "[pron] have be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |
| 2 | I had been both committed and non-committal . |
| 3 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 4 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 5 | When Miss Temple received a letter from Dr Lloyd , agreeing that what I had said was true , she told the whole school that I had been wrongly accused and was not a liar . |
| 6 | The reason for installing QRAM is that I 've been repeatedly informed that one should always free up as much Conventional memory as possible . |
| 7 | Yes , it 's been available for months now — but I 've been reliably informed that the 3.5-inch drive is going to be re -launched , hopefully with a sizeable catalogue of software titles to accompany it . |
| 8 | I 've been thoroughly examined and the cardiologist has advised me to have coronary angioplasty . |
| 9 | ‘ I have been shamefully beguiled and deceived . |
| 10 | A further point is that I have been strongly advised that we should take out cover against the need to indemnify owners against not being able to occupy their units due to events such as fire , flood or damage by previous occupants . |
| 11 | ‘ Although , God knows ’ , he said , ‘ the poor Birds ought to have a holiday from me for years to come , for I have been incessantly shooting and my own gun was not the only one that waged war upon them . |
| 12 | I have been badly deceived and robbed . |
| 13 | Right from the beginning of that terrible saga , I have been absolutely determined that the United Nations and any other body that it may be necessary to involve in order to get to the bottom of this and to resolve matters for the people of East Timor — they have gone on since 1975 — should have our support . |
| 14 | I do n't know why I tell you this , but that I have been exceedingly moved and pleased by Jane Eyre . |
| 15 | ‘ We are delighted to have created this prestigious exhibition which has been well received and enjoyed by so many visitors . ’ |
| 16 | The criterion-referencing of assessments is not an essential feature of graded tests , but it is an approach which has been strongly recommended because it is intended to make clearer the targets which pupils need to aim for and to provide information on achievements for parents , teachers and employers . |
| 17 | Mr Sloan believes the thieves were probably working for someone who has bought a similar Mercedes which has been badly damaged or written off . |
| 18 | This becomes clearer if it is considered from the more general perspective of post-modernism which has been widely characterized as involving a return of history , albeit as a category of representation . |
| 19 | A parallel trend which has been widely perceived but less well documented is that of increasing numbers of authors per article . |
| 20 | It is hard to see how some of this work could practicably have been carried out without computer aid ; for example , the input to the analysis of on versus tu/vous realizations of the indefinite personal pronoun was ‘ 4,300 tokens , each one of which has been carefully studied as to its syntactic and discursive role … ’ |
| 21 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |
| 22 | Another high performance Swan which has been constantly improved and upgraded . |
| 23 | He also protested at the general level of unemployment in the country and issued specific demands for the reinstatement of the standing of the Panamanian security forces which had been largely disarmed and reduced to a police force by the US-backed civilian government . |
| 24 | The EC has declared its willingness to help finance a plan for the environmentally-sound development of the Coto Donana wetlands in southern Spain , which had been repeatedly identified as at risk from inappropriate farming and tourism . |
| 25 | The grant was to fund a project which had been previously rejected as ineligible . |
| 26 | More apt for Flaubert , un ours was nineteenth-century slang for a play which had been frequently submitted and turned down , but eventually accepted . |
| 27 | Fifty years later , all chemists are taking pleasure in the recent restoration of John Dalton 's papers , which had been badly charred when the premises of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society were destroyed during the Blitz . |
| 28 | There is a lethal or semi-lethal dwarfing factor in the breed , sometimes called the bulldog-calf syndrome , the genetics of which have been closely studied and which seems to be slightly different to the dwarfing factor sometimes seen in other cattle breeds . |
| 29 | Both Age Concern England and Age Concern Scotland have produced wallet-sized fact cards which have been widely distributed and used . |
| 30 | Many bacteria can also be isolated from insects and may be important in the natural control of insect populations , but the only bacteria which have been extensively studied and used as pest control agents are Bacillus spp . |