Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I arrived I wouldn't 've been surprised if my name had n't been on the list but it was there . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , let's say the James Worsdale I know has been dead that long , ’ he said apologetically . |
| 3 | Most of the points I think have been well , accurately made and I do n't want to stand here making them perhaps less well wrapped and less well , less eloquently . |
| 4 | ‘ There were quite a few interesting pieces , notably miniatures from children 's sets , which seem to have been popular in Holland in those earlier periods . ’ |
| 5 | During the time that you 've been away from work you have certainly not been ‘ not working ’ — you have undertaken a whole host of activities which happen to have been unpaid . |
| 6 | But have the limited changes which have occurred been beneficial ? |
| 7 | Though some of them seem to have been familiar with the writings of some of the others , each worked independently and developed a personal view of the mystical life . |
| 8 | Although about two-thirds of students still came from the gentry estate , an increasing proportion of them seem to have been poor . |
| 9 | And so , she said , ‘ You seem to have been busy this morning , Isabel , ’ but absently remembering the bumping noises from above and the journeys her sister had made to the front sitting room ( locking the door after her ) and back again to the attic ( locking the door ) . |
| 10 | In recent years , not all those who wish have been able to find traineeships with legal firms , although the large majority continue to do so . |
| 11 | We seem to have been harsh in criticising the " in rough then neat " writers . |
| 12 | Every artist we know has been married two or three times , and , throughout history , artists are the trendsetters that way . ’ |
| 13 | Every artist we know has been married two or three times . |
| 14 | For a time it was popular to suggest that reversals in the earth 's magnetic field , which we know to have been sudden , may have temporarily broken down the protective shield provided by the van Allen Belt against cosmic rays and so stimulated evolution by way of genetic mutation . |
| 15 | There appear to have been two major influences behind the modification of the classic pacta tertiis rule . |
| 16 | As seen above , for example , there appear to have been two " regular " as distinct from any possible " ceremonial " investitures , apparently called and defined just below — while Abdurrahman Efendi was Rumeli kazasker ( 958–64/1551 7 ) , namely in 959 and 963 ; and Ata'i states that in the time of his successor , Molla Hamid ( Hamid ) , Rumeli kazasker from 964/1557 to 974/5566 , were decreed in Dhu " l-Hijja 968/August-September 1561 and in Sha'ban 973/March 1566 : thus the period 958 to 974 saw in 959 , 963 , 968 , and 973 . |
| 17 | Outside there appear to have been two aisled barns of second- and third-century date respectively , which were probably used for the safe storage of taxes collected in kind or goods in transit . |
| 18 | The House will be pleased to know that in 1991 there appear to have been lower fatalities on our roads than in any year since the 1940s , despite a ninefold increase in the amount of traffic . |
| 19 | The ford in the river was blown up to make navigation easier and from time to time there appear to have been spectacular rock falls , one of which carried away the last vestiges of St Vincent 's Chapel which gave its name to St Vincent 's Rocks . |
| 20 | After an appropriate opening , it was addressed by the pope , but so great was the crowd that one reporter could not hear the content of the speech and there appear to have been several fatal accidents in the crush . |
| 21 | One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance . |
| 22 | There seem to have been two main spurs to this research and writing : fascination about the intellectual origins of American republicanism and worry about the civic health of the nation especially after the trauma of the Vietnam war . |
| 23 | Within this transition , there seem to have been two distinct phases of development , the second of which was ushered in with the final abandonment of all residual concerns with cultural and linguistic policy , and thus indirectly with English in schools . |
| 24 | There seem to have been two principal concerns . |
| 25 | In 1938 there seem to have been tentative discussions with the Colonial Office over a sell-out to the British government . |
| 26 | Nor does there seem to have been any wholesale burning of books and manuscripts . |
| 27 | They appear to have been premature . |
| 28 | In doing so they appear to have been guilty of idealizing the origins and early development of an institution which was in later times vastly important but which was , at least in this particular respect , rather less than ideal . |
| 29 | Zuwaya claimed that in the past they had recognized no internal sovereign , and in this matter they seem to have been right . |
| 30 | If the Cubists had been surprised by the violent reactions which they had aroused previously , they seem to have been anxious to attract as much attention as possible with this exhibition . |