Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | But already the decision has been given all party support in the House of Lords . |
| 2 | His signal achievement at Chanel has been to take all the familiar Chanel ideas , the neat , gilt buttoned suit , the chain handbags , the bows , the camellias , throw them up in the air , alter their proportions , and re-make the look invented by Coco for Twenties flappers , so that it strikes a new chord . |
| 3 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 4 | ‘ Alexei has been diverting all his energy towards our venture . |
| 5 | The original Conservative proposal had been to unload all secondary or graduated pensions on to the private sector . |
| 6 | The original plan had been to leave all the top posts open , with a promise to find people as soon as the investors had parted with their cash . |
| 7 | Within hours of this US response , which Iraq 's ruling Revolution Command Council denounced as " disgraceful " , the Soviet Union tried to rescue its peace initiative by announcing that Aziz ( who was still in Moscow ) had agreed to a revised six-point peace plan whereby ( i ) Iraq would agree to comply with Resolution 660 ; ( ii ) withdrawal from Kuwait would begin the day after a ceasefire ; ( iii ) the withdrawal would be completed within 21 days , including withdrawal from Kuwait City within four days ; ( iv ) once the withdrawal had been completed all relevant UN Security Council resolutions would lapse ; ( v ) all prisoners of war would be released three days after a ceasefire ; and ( vi ) monitoring of the ceasefire would be carried out by observers or peacekeeping forces as determined by the UN Security Council . |
| 8 | However , she pointed out that as far back as 1980 , the Sports Council had been recommending all governing bodies to charge a minimum subscription of £2.00 per person . |
| 9 | The Yorkshire Television switchboard in Leeds with its myriad lines had been jammed all day with calls about Hannah . |
| 10 | If Barnes is this irreplaceable in the nation 's best club side it again raises the question of what England have been missing all these years . |
| 11 | The sun 's been shining all week over Hereford : United are on a high , five goals against Colchester was the best news there 's been for years at Edgar Street . |
| 12 | In brief , the four regions of the South have been absorbing all the ( admittedly rather limited ) national increase in population and have been pulling in people from the rest of Britain . |
| 13 | A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night . |
| 14 | Lloyd 's great achievement had been to weld all the factions into a united team , and doubt was expressed that Richards could maintain the unity . |
| 15 | Childless women declaimed prayers to the Virgin in Latin while tears rolled down their faces ; and the parents of idiot children danced with them in the market place , swearing that their little brains had been set all to rights . |
| 16 | He had the enviable but potentially inconvenient gift of making each visitor feel that he was the person Montini had been waiting all his life to talk to . |
| 17 | Our Nicola 's been moaning all week ! |
| 18 | Could it be that some machines have been neglected all summer ? |
| 19 | For months , American executives have been reviewing all aspects of the airline for cost savings . |
| 20 | This row , this argument had been brewing all season long . |
| 21 | If she had ever thought much about the future , I think she would have seen her mother sitting in a chair by the fire , knitting ; after all , her father had been dying all her life . |
| 22 | It incorporates information about pre-literate society into the wider theoretical edifice which Engels and Marx had been building all their lives . |
| 23 | Miles had been surrounded all evening , it seemed , by droves of tinselled ladies . |
| 24 | Many of these people have been rejected all their lives . |
| 25 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 26 | One result of my illness has been to change all that : When you are faced with the possibility of an early death , it makes you realize that life is worth living and that there are lots of things you want to do . |
| 27 | But this time the door had been closed all the way , and she could n't make out what was being said . |
| 28 | The flat was sweltering although curtains had been drawn all day to keep the sun out . |
| 29 | It would be b because the straw , the thatch had been pulled all straight it would flowing down , and then they used to er they used to th throw it over , it would be throwing the water away from the stack had been built like an egg you know . |
| 30 | And McDonald 's UK president , Paul Preston , said : ‘ The restaurant has been packed all morning . |