Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only animals I have n't been able to check on are the sheep . ’ |
| 2 | I think we deserved it because that was one of the finest team performances I 've ever been involved with . |
| 3 | ‘ That was one of the finest team performances I 've ever been involved with ’ Gavin Hastings |
| 4 | Other clients who 've not been sure about coming , actually find they quite like it and it 's not that bad and yes , they 'd like to stay ! |
| 5 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |
| 6 | Many , for example , talked about the gangs they had once been involved in but these gangs , if they remained at all , were not , as one Town Boy said , ‘ a shadow of what they used to be ’ . |
| 7 | In the early years of the " new diplomacy " in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries it had not been unusual for a diplomat who died in post to be immediately succeeded by a relative , often a close one , who had been attached to his mission with this possibility in mind . |
| 8 | For months it had apparently been common knowledge ; something to be tutted over and discussed in hushed tones that stopped abruptly whenever she entered the common-room . |
| 9 | ‘ Against us , Wales played him to the hilt , but then again the Scots themselves have never been slow to play to the referee , ’ states Best who is in Scotland for coaching sessions with five schools ( Madras , Morrison 's , Watson 's , Berwickshire High and Glasgow High ) and Edinburgh University last night , all arranged by his firm , Rugby Travel . |
| 10 | The dams themselves have long been disused . |
| 11 | By touring South Africa , one third of tour proceeds will be spent on developing rugby in those areas which had previously been disadvantaged . |
| 12 | Areas which had previously been central to the stealing networks were affected . |
| 13 | In Portadown and Cookstown , RUC officers were driven out of their homes in areas which had once been safe because they were loyalist . |
| 14 | At school leaving age , parents who had previously been able to cope with a child attending or possibly boarding at a special school are faced with the continuing prospect of full time life with their mentally handicapped son or daughter who may be unable to find a place in a training centre or enter full time education . |
| 15 | At the time of my visits there had already been considerable changes in terms of staffing and resources in line with advisers ' recommendations . |
| 16 | In many rural areas it has therefore been usual for local farm workers to work on the land ‘ man and boy ’ . |
| 17 | In 1847 Darby and other Brethren who had previously been critical , both of his eschatology and his authoritarian style of leadership , accused Newton of Christological heresy . |
| 18 | There they will remain for most of April , at least one of the pair on guard at all times on the loch in order to ward off any attempted ‘ take-over ’ , perhaps by young pairs who have n't been able to locate a suitable breeding site . |
| 19 | It is also empowering for groups who have long been powerless , downgraded , humiliated , patronised , deskilled and diminished to discover the strength of concerted action for themselves and on their own behalf . |
| 20 | The widespread power cuts to factories which had then been necessary had caused nearly 15 per cent of the UK workforce to be laid off and were estimated to have cost some £200 millions of vital production . |
| 21 | This is because the process of planning has no alternative to that of moving continually forward and , in that movement , applying methods and ideas which have previously been untried . |
| 22 | The Westernizers and Slavophiles who had hitherto been able to voice their opinions only with extreme caution embarked upon a deliberate policy of circulating handwritten memoranda . |
| 23 | For two years she had hardly been sane . |
| 24 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , a blow has been struck for the land-owning taxpayer , particularly those less well-off individuals who have not been able to defend themselves against the local district valuer 's increasingly aggressive commercial techniques . |
| 26 | Obviously people who are merely going through a bad patch ( anxiety state ) are easier to assist in the process of change , because they have greater resources , than individuals who have always been anxious ( anxiety trait ) . |
| 27 | In these appeals we have only been concerned with the obligation to give the contemnor this written record , but in most of the reported cases there have been other breaches of procedures in addition to a breach of this nature . |
| 28 | So far over the two days there have only been five sub par rounds out of the 186 played . |
| 29 | In recent years there have certainly been dramatic moves to open sport up to the forces of the market . |
| 30 | For years it has not been clear exactly what the Tate is . |