Example sentences of "[pron] have been [vb pp] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | All my short life I had been told this , and I had no answer to it . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been given this beautiful little picture as well , ’ I said , and I smiled up at him . |
| 3 | getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject . |
| 4 | ‘ This is the reason they were first given and I would like to think that I have been given this award because of that . |
| 5 | I have been advised this week that out of 18 UK applications for this section of the Human Capital and Mobility Programme only three succeeded . |
| 6 | The valley is the habitat of at least 21 species of the insect , which has been highlighted this month by a travelling exhibition . |
| 7 | The valley is the habitat of at least 21 species of the insect , which has been highlighted this month by a travelling exhibition . |
| 8 | Many of the points which have been raised this evening will be considered in Committee . |
| 9 | The author would welcome responses from teams developing courses in EP , particularly in North America , with a view to publishing a much more elaborate framework ( akin to that available for Computer Science ) , including the items which have been omitted this time . |
| 10 | She has been appointed this season after the Wordsworth Trust staged a six-day exhibition in Osaka last year . |
| 11 | A record of the companies who have been given this dispensation should be held in order that this may be checked by the auditors . |
| 12 | Coun Shephard said : ‘ I have a letter from a headmaster and have spoken to families who have been told this . |
| 13 | The three members who have been chosen this year are Ron Waldron and John Ryan , two former national coaches , and John Maclean , one of the union 's national representatives who is also chairman of Llanelli . |
| 14 | One of the foremost exponents of Hawaiian slack key guitar was the superb musician and singer Gabby Pahinui , and Gabby is the reason we 've been given this rare and welcome opportunity to speak to Ry Cooder . |
| 15 | That 's what we 've been asked this morning . |
| 16 | Thirdly that there is no requirement to demonstrate a need to locate development in open countryside erm and we 've been reminded this morning that erm one of the erm flaws in the policy put forward back in nineteen seventy nine or eighty erm appears to be that it erm required , certainly in the explanatory memorandum , that the development be erm essential erm to er essentially have a countryside location . |
| 17 | mm , well we 've been told this with Simon , you know needs to get to standard with them , with maths in particularly , before he goes up to secondary level you know because |
| 18 | Well there 's that I mean there 's all , there 's a whole range of things , there 's ghoulish voyeurism right , I mean that that 's important , there 's also the way the Royals have been peddled by the media over the decades and the fact that you know this has been how they 've been tendered this is what they actually are and that y you , you know what I 'm saying that erm or whatever it is between this is what they are , this is what we 've been and they do n't match , they really do n't match . |
| 19 | More recently the Solstice has attracted thousands of New Age travellers , but they 've been banned this year by the same injuctions that now govern Castlemorton common in Worcestershire , where an illegal festival just over a year ago attracted 20,000 travellers . |
| 20 | On the following day , Stanley told the Finance Committee of the India Council that they had been offered this site , and pointed out the advantages of buying the land from the Government rather than obtaining a special Act of Parliament . |
| 21 | It was not the first time they had been told this . |
| 22 | Mr Andrews believes they have been accepted this year because they are running as a family team . |
| 23 | ‘ Similar offences in the past have received a fortnight 's suspension , but because of the player 's disciplinary record he has been given this long ban , ’ said the committee chairman David Johnson . |
| 24 | It has been confirmed this week that political parties will no longer get financial subsidies , and the party urgently needs new sources of money . |
| 25 | He had become involved in the administration of St Anne 's House in Soho , for example ; it had been opened this year as a " centre of Christian discourse " , and in the autumn he and Philip Mairet conducted a discussion group , " Toward the Definition of Culture " which met once a week until the middle of December . |
| 26 | But he knew that he was right and , much more , he felt that he was good , that he had been given this chance to act well , that he must take it and to take it would get him off on a new and better path ; while to succumb would be the broad and easy road to hell . |
| 27 | James got to Corunna , where the whole force had been supposed to rendezvous and pick up Ormonde , in time to see the last battered casualties arrive , grateful perhaps that , so soon after his own recent sufferings in the Mediterranean , he had been spared this further ordeal . |
| 28 | But it 's been demolished this year . |
| 29 | I also give a guarantee that it is n't just a one off situation , meeting we all go away and forget about what we 've said I can assure you that wo n't happen minutes have been taken and and what 's been said this evening that will be conveyed to the management committee meeting the board meeting and I think we need to look very clearly at a very closely what 's been said and respond to what 's been said and I think that it 's been suggested also raised this evening about having a further meeting to report back and say erm this has been said this is our response . |
| 30 | The the Council looking at the whole process of how it spends it money what it does , I think the theatre the start of this evening we were looking quite close about what we do and how we do it what we do n't do and what we should do and I think from what 's been said this evening will be re look closely the questions you 've raised things that you 've raised we 'll report it back to you in the hope of this meeting that we 'll actually moved forward because I think it 's in everybody interest everybody 's interest if the playhouse closes . |