Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My name is I have been a shareholder and other members of my family for many years much has already been said about directors ' and your particular erm , fees in particular . |
| 2 | Given what has already been said about identity , it is unlikely that we shall find in the anorexic a unity of text . |
| 3 | I know that a question has already been asked about export credit guarantees , but does not my right hon. Friend feel that the Government could be more pragmatic , constructive and helpful in assisting manufacturing industry to gain the many orders for capital equipment in the Soviet Union and eastern European countries that can not proceed because of the Department 's failure to grant export credit cover ? |
| 4 | It is interesting that her famous question ‘ Is he one of us ? ’ has usually been asked about fellow-Conservatives . |
| 5 | No film has yet been made about LSD . |
| 6 | Ironists reflect with pleasure that nevertheless one of the great literary biographies of the century has subsequently been written about Proust . |
| 7 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 8 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 9 | Carinish Court had aroused some people 's envy : that at least was true , even if Ralph had perhaps been mistaken about Johnny Redburn 's reaction to the place . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just been hearing about Pat 's epic poem about the ‘ other side ’ , ’ said Alison . |
| 11 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 12 | He had more than three hundred books on his shelves now ; everything that had ever been written about Vangmoor , of course , its history , geology , geography , wild life ; all his old school textbooks , all the adventure stories of his boyhood . |
| 13 | Jesus had probably been told about Zacchaeus and so was able to call him by name . |