Example sentences of "have just [been] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | It seems to me that certain people in F1 can get away with anything they want and that has just been demonstrated here today . ’ |
2 | have n't got the plan in What has just been pointed out to me is that the er smaller site , that is the one with Oakwood on it , which I 'm sure is familiar to er anybody present , that 's just opposite Skelton Manor and Court , and the larger site was the land to the east of Oakwood incorporating this much larger pond w with what appears to be an island in it , er running right up to the boundary of the conservation area , I think . |
3 | Women do need to become much more political , because the rules are defined by men and politics , as in fact has just been pointed out , are defined by men , in subtle ways as well a structural ways , and one of the subtle or not so subtle ways is in fact to insist that parliaments starts that ten o'clock in the morning |
4 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
5 | Roman was hoping to treat Stephen for six months , but an application to the extension of his visa has just been turned down . |
6 | My youngest girl has just been operated on and I could n't believe she only had two stitches . |
7 | ‘ In the past no one individual has had responsibility for training , but in an effort to formalise and develop staff training a working party has just been set up ( to be chaired by the Branch Development Officer ) to organise and develop staff training at all levels ’ . |
8 | As a matter of interest and as a direct result of our attendance at five of these Auctions — a total of 37 unweaned foals and ponies were rescued , and a small FOAL SANCTUARY has just been set up in Burnley for their rehabilitation . |
9 | You may like to know that we are represented on the Wales Access Forum , which has just been set up under the auspices of the Countryside Council for Wales . |
10 | That home , however , has just been closed down as part of county hall 's budget cuts . |
11 | But before the idea is condemned out of hand , let us remember that the price of petrol has just been brought down by 18p a gallon . |
12 | But the reform of the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy , or CAP which has just been agreed barely makes a nod to organic farmers . |
13 | This hotel has just been taken over by Herr and Frau Sulzur , and already there is a friendly atmosphere . |
14 | But a compromise has just been worked out between the governor , the tribes and Bruce Babbitt , the ex-governor of Arizona who is now interior secretary , under which casino gambling would be restricted to the reservations , and the tribes would be given slot machines in proportion to their population . |
15 | The message has just been hammered home to companies throughout the North-East by Croquet North . |
16 | and er just at the very end all you could see was her and your man , the hologram and he 'd just been killed about five minutes earlier . |
17 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
18 | She looked small , frail , and feeble ; her face was dazed and vacant , as if she 'd just been woken up and could n't quite remember where she was . |
19 | He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer . |
20 | Erm We 've just the they 've just been altered actually |
21 | What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness . |
22 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
23 | Some affirmative uses give a slightly different impression from that of being able to assert the occurrence of an event because of its having been perceived — a suggestion that there is a difference between what perception would lead one to think and the way things really are : ( 85 ) Once again the direction in which something is seen to move might depend upon the ratios of firing in cells sensitive to movement in different directions , and after prolonged movement in one direction a stationary image would produce less firing in the cell which had just been stimulated more than normally , hence apparent movement in the opposite direction would be seen to occur . |
24 | However , we were told an application for a house in the open countryside in Montgomeryshire had just been called in . |
25 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
26 | Everyone put on their coats and crowded to the gate with that mixture of patronage and curiosity reserved by old prisoners for those who had just been shot down . |
27 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
28 | Clara had just been born then , and now , more or less on schedule , Hana was in labour again . |
29 | She was about to take on a job whose previous holder had just been fired specifically to make room for her . |
30 | The Z88 's line editor may then be used to edit the line as if it had just been typed in . |