Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the new services permitted by the Act are simply those offered by many other financial intermediaries , requiring no especial change in the balance sheet but drawing upon societies ' general financial expertise which hitherto they had been prevented from using to its fullest extent . |
| 2 | Furthermore they had been joined by universities in commercial and industrial cities , beginning with London , and including Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Newcastle and Bristol . |
| 3 | Perhaps they had been mistaken about Wang Sau-leyan . |
| 4 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 5 | Perhaps they had been dropped by birds . |
| 6 | Obviously they had been infiltrated by the enemies who still lay in wait for him in Russia . |
| 7 | So they 've been used to their own rate and I said each time , if you 're gon na get you must tell them it 's the cleanup rate . |
| 8 | Thus they have been re-encoded into long-term memory and this gives rise to the primacy effect . |
| 9 | ‘ I am disappointed for the crowd because generally they have been treated to some good football here and all our performance lacked was some goals . |
| 10 | The longer they have been Christians and the more they have been preoccupied with their Christian activities , the more difficult it becomes to relate their beliefs to the perceived needs of their friends . |
| 11 | They left the foster mother 's home on 19 June , and after a period in a children 's home they have been placed with different foster parents . |
| 12 | Once the Suez adventure began , and the Americans realized how totally they had been kept in the dark by London , an " anti-British frenzy " developed in Washington . |
| 13 | Typically they have been started by an entrepreneur who brought together a bright , dedicated , hard-working group of colleagues to market a new service or a new product . |
| 14 | Prisoners at Gloucester apparently became bored translating school textbooks — now they 've been switched to teenage adventure stories — to the delight of the pupils . |
| 15 | Now they have been washed by years of rain into earthy camouflage patterns . |
| 16 | The three VAX servers are said to be able to cope with 1,000 transactions an hour , though so far they have been tested to only a few percent of their capacity . |
| 17 | Often they had been laid for commercial purposes , including coal mining , but were becoming disused . |
| 18 | It 's a job which men take on when they are at the height of their powers but all too often they have been reduced to a sickly shadow of their former self . |
| 19 | All too often they have been segregated from their peers to form ‘ remedial ’ classes — just as disruptive children have . |
| 20 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 21 | Though it used to be thought that internationalism was the preserve of the large , private corporation , today they have been joined by small firms and many state enterprises . |
| 22 | Here they have been positioned between the strings and it is attention to minor details like these which make companies like Ibanez worthy of the laurels heaped upon them . |
| 23 | After indifferent form in the early games , the first Test at Sabina Park , where four years earlier they had been annihilated in three days , was upon them . |
| 24 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 25 | But at least they had been brought into contact with other sufferers . |
| 26 | There they had been questioned for a long time , in a way which — Alice could see , watching Bert 's face as he told the tale — had not only impressed but sobered the two . |
| 27 | He and his uncle had visited the Governor in Asba Tafari and there they had been detained as hostages for the good behaviour of the Asaimara ; his uncle 's refusal to guarantee my safety in Bahdu had led to my recall . |
| 28 | Instead they had been separated from their ‘ bosses ’ and relegated to word-processing pools to type for ‘ dictators ’ . |
| 29 | He says ‘ His rules made good sense then and they make better sense now as the pressures grow inexorably , yet they have been ignored in certain sensitive areas , with results which are both plain and heart-rending to see . ’ |
| 30 | The Government 's intention was that these funds would be a way of helping with one-off exceptional circumstances affecting only a small minority of students , but the reality is that once again they have been shown to be completely wrong . |