Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | As the Party has grown it has been able to achieve representation in local government to the point of having controlling power on some councils , it has had a major voice in the first Assembly , the Convention , and the second Assembly , and it has elected representatives at Westminster and the European Parliament . |
2 | By now a consequence has emerged which has been implicit from the first in the whole enterprise of grounding valuation in awareness , that Good has now the same claims to objectivity as Truth . |
3 | It has meant we have been able to bring out this newsletter in double quick time . |
4 | A lot of ‘ behind the scenes ’ work has meant there has been little news to report for some months on the A1 Locomotive Trust 's plans to build Peppercorn Pacific No 60163 . |
5 | But within six months she 'd known she had been right , and she had now reached the stage where she thoroughly enjoyed her work . |
6 | I would have given anything to have been able to do something , particularly since nobody else seemed interested in assisting , but Granny was a difficult person to help and I was young and afraid of horses . |
7 | because I 've noticed he 's been sleepy he 's all blocked up all all over there . |
8 | Earlier , Det Sgt John Clark had said he had been involved in meetings with other police forces all over the country after a number of raids on TSB branches in which cash dispensers were forced open using oxy-acetylene equipment . |
9 | She then told me of a child she had had who had been still-born . |
10 | The handshake with which she had greeted him had been cool and firm and her brief smile was surprisingly attractive . |
11 | Then he had spoilt it by saying that his reasons for leaving Australia had been personal , and she had assumed he had been involved in a similar situation to that with Jennifer . |
12 | The elections of December 1965 and March 1967 had confirmed what had been clear in the elections of 1962 : that his political base was , in fact , partisan rather than truly national . |
13 | When he had begun she had been inclined to send him off or run away herself ; but his determination had kept her listening and she had watched him walk away with his plan — it was more of a plan than a proposal — well lodged in her mind and unexpectedly endearing . |
14 | Professor MacFee had read it had been startled by its undoubted merit , and had carefully discussed it chapter by chapter with him , suggesting how to improve it . |
15 | John Major and Albert Reynolds have said there has been some progress in talks on the future of Northern Ireland . |
16 | Eastern winds have brought what had been fair sport back to a normal level for the time of year . |
17 | However , I have to say I have been disappointed that through TOP we are not managing to achieve more . |