Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it comes back to the point which has just been made about the er , about the erm why have this system of election by thirds and almost backfired on , on , on , on the leader of the council yeah ? |
| 2 | Now there are occasionally criticisms from members that there is too much concentration on the elite end of sport in the Sports Federation in this instance the R Y A but what is important about the is an effort to produce a very high standard as a finished product so to speak to go to the Olympics but it also helps to concentrate minds on the bit that is missing before and help to recycle everybody 's concentration into the training area and Rod has just been talking about the year of youth and of course it follows on very naturally in a post- olympic year to launch that year of youth . |
| 3 | What has already been said about thermal hazards can also apply at work . |
| 4 | Given what has already been said about identity , it is unlikely that we shall find in the anorexic a unity of text . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Erm much has already been said about the role of P P Gs and the advice they contain . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ Enough has already been said about the use of weapons in this area . ’ |
| 8 | ( What would have happened at Verdun had Renault remained out of business can readily be deduced from what has already been said about the Voie Sacrée . ) |
| 9 | Some caution has already been expressed about the extent to which the new GCSE examinations will reach less able children previously excluded from the Certificate of Secondary Education . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Much has already been written about the Invasion of Europe and I am in no position to go into details of the actual event , but can only record how it affected us in Bomber Command . |
| 12 | So much has already been written about the operational side of the industry that the public tend to take for granted the workforce whose expertise makes it all possible . ’ |
| 13 | As in the case of Cubism , Apollinaire tried to give the word as much of an all-inclusive meaning as possible : ‘ Orphism has already been talked about a great deal . |
| 14 | And if that 's the case , then in the middle of the next century , more will be known about me , than has ever been known about any other human being . |
| 15 | It is interesting that her famous question ‘ Is he one of us ? ’ has usually been asked about fellow-Conservatives . |
| 16 | Some concern has also been expressed about the impact of conglomerate mergers on the economy and it is this issue which is addressed next . |
| 17 | In fact , contrary to what has sometimes been said about his modesty , he enjoyed talking about his work , even when it was no more than work in progress . |
| 18 | It can be argued that no truly great novel has yet been written about the second world war . |
| 19 | Furthermore , nothing has yet been said about all the research that does not depend on the collection of data by the sociologist ( primary data ) but instead makes use of secondary data — the wealth of material already available from other sources , such as government statistics , personal diaries , newspapers , and other kinds of information . |
| 20 | No film has yet been made about LSD . |
| 21 | Ironists reflect with pleasure that nevertheless one of the great literary biographies of the century has subsequently been written about Proust . |
| 22 | he 'd obviously been talking about , erm |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The divi was very important which is why I , as a Guild 's woman erm through I suppose the memories of mother , was so adamant in against the dividend stamps because to us , that woman who I 'd just been talking about , Councillor Mrs always , I 'm sure no one would mind me saying it , but she always used to tell us that it was her thrift and she saved and they brought their house through this , the Co-op you see . |
| 26 | ‘ I was annoyed that I 'd never been told about this illness in England ’ , says Leslie . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She asked Nanny what they had all been talking about as Nanny towelled her dry . |
| 29 | It had all been talked about by those involved . |
| 30 | The 1984 village case study revealed that the Bangladeshi mothers ( some of whom had already been taught about the lobon-gur solution ) recognised four different types of diarrhoea and generally thought only one of these types to be an indication for the use of the lobon-gur mixture . |