Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been said " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you say to me has been said only to me . |
| 2 | When we have been on the losing side in county or Test cricket nothing has been said . |
| 3 | Nothing has been said so far about precise content , for example , which world religions should be included , or whether the focus should be mainly on Christianity , how far non-religious stances such as Humanism should feature in RE , or what to do about the occult , and so forth . |
| 4 | what somebody comes to that , tomorrow and knocks at that door and says look I 've been sent here by you say good bye , good night , good luck nothing has been said to me , I |
| 5 | Now the taxation of the plaintiff 's bill of costs , came before master er and er in his taxation , it seems , and I 'm , I think I 'm right in saying it , it seems that erm there is no substantial dispute as to the particular items in the various bills of costs with which he was concerned , it maybe that if there were a discrepancy , he has , he dealt with it and nothing has been said before me today , er to suggest that the figures appearing in the bill of costs ought to be varied and accordingly I have not er have to consider the detail items in the bill of costs , the only issue I did n't decide is whether master was correct in disallowing interest for the period that he did , er Mr for the plaintiff says that he was wrong er that there was no good reason for disallowing him any interest and that accordingly I on this appeal should erm discharge or reverse that part of taxing order as disallowed interest . |
| 6 | So clear is this conclusion to my mind that , notwithstanding anything which has been said in other cases , I would be very slow to concede that the word ‘ appropriates ’ in section 1(1) is in its context ambiguous . |
| 7 | This is despite a major reduction in the proportion of calls performed by deputising services , the use of which had been said to be the main factor increasing the numbers of night visits . |
| 8 | Once she got away from lingerie interest flagged and Rain found herself puzzling over something which had been said before the speeches began . |
| 9 | Everything we say or write is connected both with things which have been said or written in the past , and with things which may be said or written in response to it in the future . |
| 10 | The idea that the only way of coping with the desuetude of the age , its profound certainty that everything has been said already , is by openly proclaiming this fact as itself the new fact , the idea that the only way of selling your article as original is to declare that it is repro , seems to run up against an ethical objection in a writer like Palandri , however sophisticated his own literary apparatus undoubtedly is . |
| 11 | It means something has been said or something has happened that has put the subject of the remark in an uncomfortable place . |
| 12 | Once something has been said , it can not be unsaid . |
| 13 | ‘ Rascals , ’ Fat Watt said when he noticed the far-off plumes of smoke , and stumbled off as though everything had been said that could be said . |
| 14 | Simple-minded people sometimes think that everything 's been said about Hollywood . |
| 15 | Now something 's been said for certainly fifteen years er that I can remember . |
| 16 | Of my aunt herself has been said , ‘ She was always so patient ; and so kind to the little ones ; the kindest , sweetest person I ever knew . ’ |
| 17 | It was n't so much his words which comforted Cassie , but rather the tone in which they had been said . |
| 18 | It has been said of him that he would rather live in his native country , and not be allowed to publish , than go elsewhere and be free to do so . |
| 19 | It has been said , by Dan Jacobson , that he ‘ aestheticises ’ his response to violence . |
| 20 | And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack . |
| 21 | In response to my attempts to historicize perversion it has been said : ‘ OK , we see how you might want to rescue homosexuality from the pejorative category of a perversion , but surely not incest or bestiality ? ’ |
| 22 | It has been said that Lewis 's expressed distaste for the poetry of his contemporaries , such as MacNeice and Eliot , was based on jealousy . |
| 23 | It has been said that it is best not to know too much about salami and other sausages , in the same way that ignorance about haggis aids its enjoyment and easy digestion . |
| 24 | It has been said of them that ‘ in order to be different they dress exactly alike ’ ! |
| 25 | If I speak out loud my breath hangs in the candle-light , just as though one could snap off a word in a mistily solidified lump as soon as it has been said . |
| 26 | It has been said that he understood the psychology of an orchestra better than almost any other conductor . |
| 27 | It has been said that we can regard ATP as a common currency which must be spent to provide energy whenever it is needed — to drive chemical reactions , to cause muscles to contract , or to pump substances across membranes . |
| 28 | But it has been said before we should have professional referees — the sooner it 's sorted out the better . |
| 29 | It has been said that Philip Miller worked at the Garden before 1722 and that this referred to his promotion . |
| 30 | This is the case of Austria , for instance , of which it has been said that ‘ banished to insignificant social roles , Austrian federalism has taken on something of a folklore quality ’ . |