Example sentences of "they have been [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shown as a single work of art at the Tate Gallery and three other European museums in 1962–63 , those six canvases were subsequently divided and sold separately , and none of them has been included in any recent exhibition of Bacon 's art . |
| 2 | Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it . |
| 3 | He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years . |
| 4 | they 've been done for many years |
| 5 | Well , we 'd like to think that er people , once they 've been introduced to these different sorts of drinks , and become a bit more aware about different sensible levels , would actually be interested in buying them in the future and trying them out themselves . |
| 6 | Most shops are prepared for your to do this with expensive boots , but do n't expect them to be exchanged if they 've been marked in any way or worn outside ! |
| 7 | They 've been described by some as the ugliest dogs in the world . |
| 8 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 9 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 10 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 11 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 12 | Could she come to terms with the knowledge that they had been conceived in that dreadful place ? |
| 13 | I could not understand why they had been banished to this dusty attic . |
| 14 | She had brought glasses and dishes from home , she said ; they had been boxed for many years too long . |
| 15 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 16 | Trade union representatives saw themselves as being accountable either to their respective trade union or to the regional TUC ( the nominating body ) , although virtually no employers ' representatives saw themselves as being accountable to regional or national CBI and many were unaware they had been nominated by this body . |
| 17 | Writing to the archbishop of York after the Council , he told him he could send only the ‘ headings ’ ( the Capitula ) of the decrees because he did not wish to circulate the fuller texts until they had been approved by those who were present . |
| 18 | But they had been chosen for some little time already . |
| 19 | They had been provided for many years by the YWCA , and other urban based and normally middle class-run charitable societies dispensing relief and assistance . |
| 20 | With the laity , the clergy suffered from the levying of purveyances in the early years of the war , even though by the statute of Westminster of 1275 , confirmed in 1309 and 1316 , they had been exempted from this obligation . |
| 21 | They were so free in expression she wondered if they had been read at all by his parents but presumed they could hardly have escaped their eye . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , they had been besieged by these hostile Arabs in their desert fort for months , see , and they was bloody starving . ’ |
| 23 | The bows were short , stubby affairs which looked as if they had been bonded from several different kinds of wood . |
| 24 | Happily my inspector friend was at hand , He opened the Chief Constable 's hospitality cupboard , I had a dram and was told that they had been tipped off that afternoon about some Scot that would run some sheep through the Lion . |
| 25 | Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 . |
| 26 | Such terrors are more likely to affect foals and yearlings because they have been exposed to fewer objects and experiences . |
| 27 | They have been confirmed by many other sources since . |
| 28 | Of all the things that are project based , they have been audited on those projects , all the other procedures |
| 29 | Now we have two wonderful sightscreens , and to make matters worse they have been positioned at either end of the ground . |
| 30 | They have been seen in many countries of Europe and in America . |