Example sentences of "have been [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody would 've been drunk that night you see , half past nine at night , thought it was a good trick . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I see you 've been having more fun and games ! ’ |
| 4 | Mairead has been elected this year to the Executive Committee as Tralee Area Secretary . |
| 5 | Once this has been completed each invoice or other costing document will need to be coded before being processed by the computer operator . |
| 6 | Of 720,000 sq ftof office space that has been completed this year , 350,000 sq ft has been let . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For example , in the case of the latter it has been stated that |
| 10 | A lot of erm group one plans are , there are about ten thousand plans that are showing an arrears status at the moment , and premium has been missed some time ago , it 's not a , not a current premium , which means on the fifteenth of June or the first of July we will automatically go in and pick up two premiums , we 'll t we 'll try and collect the arrears without having notified the client of it in any way at all . |
| 11 | Britain has been denied this freedom because it has never had a truly commercial broadcasting environment . |
| 12 | The valley is the habitat of at least 21 species of the insect , which has been highlighted this month by a travelling exhibition . |
| 13 | The valley is the habitat of at least 21 species of the insect , which has been highlighted this month by a travelling exhibition . |
| 14 | The small voluntary TRANSAID team has been strengthened this year by the addition of Eric Schumacher , formerly a senior manager with I.C.I. Eric brings with him extensive general management and transport experience , which is already proving to be valuable . |
| 15 | The price of this pragmatism has been to disappoint those who expected radical changes after Independence . |
| 16 | She has been appointed this season after the Wordsworth Trust staged a six-day exhibition in Osaka last year . |
| 17 | In the vestry and in his bungalow , under the pretext of extra rehearsal , he has been fondling these big brown girls and offering them cigarettes and money for sex . |
| 18 | The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute . |
| 19 | But a heroic act of rescue , splendidly documented , has been done all the same . |
| 20 | Again , it is not my intention here to review the variations and criticisms in detail this has been done many times elsewhere . |
| 21 | But erm yeah , it 's , it 's er good for what it is , but I think this has been done many times before and er I sh would think that everybody 's seen some just slightly better than this , but it 's quite a nice er sunset . |
| 22 | Yeah but i it has been done that , but |
| 23 | After this has been done several times , the actual frequency of reorganization can be compared with that expected , and the future reorganization schedule will be based on the results . |
| 24 | Hitherto the universal election-time practice of Greek governments , of left or right , has been to spend more money and go easy on taxes . |
| 25 | It has been observed that sodium restriction tends to be more beneficial in hypertensives who have low plasma renin activity and in whom the aldosterone response to lowering dietary sodium is poor ( Vaughan et al , 1973 ) . |
| 26 | One recent line of research has involved the investigation of pottery distributions as a possible indicator of a town 's market area , partly because of its abundance and partly because it has been observed that pottery was not normally dispersed through permanent retail outlets . |
| 27 | It has been observed that reinfection of the grafted liver by HBV either alone or with HDV is common . |
| 28 | Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals . |
| 29 | Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information . |
| 30 | A project designed to keep bored youngsters from resorting to car crime by giving them motorbikes to play with has been receiving some expert advice . |