Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they have been most developed , they act to divorce the firm from the factor costs of a national location , and thus provide a further challenge to older notions of comparative advantage determining the outcomes for countries . |
| 2 | ‘ Black people , although they 've been here such a long time , have n't assimilated into the business community , or education , as they have in America . |
| 3 | Only two or three of the terminals were occupied , by guys who looked as if they 'd been up all night and who were already on to their second pack of cigarettes . |
| 4 | Even if they 'd been half full it would have been our only escape route . ’ |
| 5 | Still , to look on the bright side : if they had been together all this time , by now they might already be a dull settled couple , instead of which the long separation had preserved the thrill of courtship in their marriage , with letters passing between them constantly . |
| 6 | If they had been truly myopic ( on our definition ) they would have sold their entire stock on all 672 occasions . |
| 7 | They may feel responsible for adding to the dead person 's problems or may feel that if they had been more alert they would have noticed their friend 's or relative 's distress . |
| 8 | If the first were correct , surely a house full of children and servants would have heard poor William 's pleas and , even if they had been too frightened of his mother 's retribution to release him , surely they would have passed him food . |
| 9 | If they have been so informed , I would be very grateful if I could be told on what date they were told . |
| 10 | So are the other countries which support it , even if they have been less keen to play soldiers . |
| 11 | Must of been , cos they 'd been out all day . |
| 12 | Social workers and the police would not have taken the action they had , in the way they did , unless they had been absolutely sure there was a reason . |
| 13 | And on the whole , I 've been fairly lucky with them , so my views are n't formed because they 've been absolutely horrible to me . |
| 14 | because they 've been so much more technology , you know , since it 's started |
| 15 | ‘ Often you do n't realise the sheer range of functions of a good company secretary or administrator until they leave , because they 've been so efficient , ’ said Mr Sheppard . |
| 16 | Third , it would be disagreeable for the Serbs , who , because they have been largely untested , have yet to show themselves to be a fighting force with much mettle . |
| 17 | ‘ There are stars I have simply not brought to Highbury because they have been more concerned with the money they could make rather than what they could achieve for Arsenal . ’ |
| 18 | The majority of candidates who fail do so because they have been so nervous that they have not been able to think clearly , far less to perform well . |
| 19 | A small proportion of people develop a headache after lumbar puncture but this is usually because they have been too active too soon after the test . |
| 20 | But it is important to state that although in recent years in Britain , there have been many service innovations whose aim has been to improve the home or community care of elderly mentally frail people ( see for example Age Concern England , l983 ) , unfortunately most of these schemes have either not been systematically evaluated ( often because they have been very small in scale ) , or — if they have — results have not been widely disseminated . |
| 21 | ‘ Witch , ’ he told her , his face relaxed , boyish , showing the easy charm that she had not known he possessed while they had been so busy provoking each other . |
| 22 | The rift between the two men was particularly painful since they had been so close at first . |
| 23 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 24 | Everyone had been waiting on tenterhooks on the platform , as they had been technically ready for more than a day . |