Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd dived , you see , but eventually they had to surface — the air must 've been getting bad — and up they came , drew nearly alongside a German destroyer the pack had left behind when they called off the hunt , waiting there , just in case Taureg surfaced . |
| 2 | well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone . |
| 3 | Somebody would 've been drunk that night you see , half past nine at night , thought it was a good trick . |
| 4 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 5 | ‘ I see you 've been having more fun and games ! ’ |
| 6 | Congratulations goes to Paddy Summers of the Sixmilewater league who has been elected assistant team manager to Russell Morrow , Ballymena . |
| 7 | Mairead has been elected this year to the Executive Committee as Tralee Area Secretary . |
| 8 | Once this has been completed each invoice or other costing document will need to be coded before being processed by the computer operator . |
| 9 | Of 720,000 sq ftof office space that has been completed this year , 350,000 sq ft has been let . |
| 10 | On no account should he be allowed simply to get in his car and drive around before he has been pronounced competent to drive , and has organized his driving licence and insurance accordingly , if for no other reason than that his insurance would be invalid if he did have an accident . |
| 11 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
| 12 | Our central initiative has been to urge that Labour , with others , should mobilise a major national demonstration , plus cultural activities , that would provide a unifying focus for campaigners . |
| 13 | Morocco 's fledging Green Party has been declared illegal , ostensibly because it has not been officially authorized . |
| 14 | The piglet they bred at school has been declared supreme champion at one of the country 's top farming shows . |
| 15 | Moreover , experience demonstrates that once over 50 per cent acceptances have been received and the offer has been declared unconditional as to acceptances , the minority ( particularly institutional shareholders ) often sell . |
| 16 | But the vote has been declared invalid because fewer than half the parents took part in the ballot . |
| 17 | THE Queen 's cousin — art-dealer John Bowes-Lyon — has been declared bankrupt in London 's High Court , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 18 | In addition to the disqualifications that apply to voting , a person may not be a candidate if he or she has been declared bankrupt within the previous five years , has incurred or authorised unlawful expenditure by a local authority above £2,000 , or is a paid employee of the local authority in question or the holder of a politically restricted post in another local authority ( see pages 88 — 9 ) . |
| 19 | A BUSINESSMAN who defied Sunday trading laws ten years ago , and gathered over £4,000 in fines and legal fees in the process , has been declared bankrupt . |
| 20 | DSC Communications Corp , Dallas has seen off a shareholder suit brought against the company and some of its officers in 1991 over the problems some of the Baby Bells had with the software for the MegaHub Signal Transfer Point : the suit has been dismissed without prejudice and the motion to certify class action status for it has been declared moot . |
| 21 | DEVELOPMENT continues apace in Syria as the Wadi Aabeid field — in which LASMO has an interest — has been declared commercial . |
| 22 | Princess Coronation Class 46229 ‘ Duchess of Hamilton ’ which was originally hoped to be steamed between Carlisle and Perth later this year , has been withdrawn due to restrictions being imposed on the locomotive by ScotRail engineers . |
| 23 | In the field immediately south of Port Charlotte there is a four-part chambered cairn with a substantial forecourt in which recent excavation discovered neolithic pottery , two leaf arrowheads , and flint knives , and which has been dated 2650 BC . |
| 24 | It is chiefly thanks to the Drunken Poet — another new arrival in the 1693 quarto — that the score , another of his haunts , has been dated 1693 with such conviction . |
| 25 | Their evidence for this judgement , as with those presented in most of their surveys , was loosely stated and difficult to verify , but the argument has been echoed many times in recent years in Britain by academics and policy-makers alike . |
| 26 | In The Art Newspaper No. 16 March 1992 p. 6 we published the fears of some art historians that this exhibition might have been infiltrated by fakes ; in the event these fears have proved to be groundless and the show has been enjoying great success . |
| 27 | It has been enjoying spectacular growth for its sales of the super absorbent polymers which make nappies that much more comfortable . |
| 28 | Unknown or overlooked by most museum professionals , a series of major international art exhibitions has been enjoying unusual success in the Tennessee capital . |
| 29 | For example , in the case of the latter it has been stated that |
| 30 | A Memorial shaped like a B17 tailfin has been erected next to the town 's library . |