Example sentences of "have just been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks have just been received in the Office from Janice Glen for the lovely flowers and card she received on her birthday . |
| 2 | I have just been watching on television the final scenes from the Royal Shakespeare Company 's performance of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 3 | Indeed , as I write this , I have just been watching on television Lord Denning declaring with self-satisfaction that he puts all such letters straight into the wastepaper basket . |
| 4 | The Joneses have just been asked to find 15 years ' back rent along with the residents of the other 17 flats at Shire Court in Swindon . |
| 5 | She says : ‘ It is a very valuable function because it helps people who are unemployed or have just been made redundant to do something which is worthwhile . |
| 6 | [ Three assertions have just been made . |
| 7 | I also take the point Mr has made , and only assure you that we will look at these figures when we get them and take on board the sorts of comments that have just been made by yourself and Mr and by and use them with our judgement applied liberally . |
| 8 | Just George , just to respond to the two points that have just been made . |
| 9 | Do I take it that actually the remarks that have just been made are really in favour of having a third E H O , but that in fact that that in circumstances , will not be possible . |
| 10 | ‘ As I have just been telling your nurse , I 'm having trouble listening to a chest . |
| 11 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 12 | However , this result does not carry through in the same way to the cases we have just been discussing where managerial utility depends on effort as well as income . |
| 13 | We will consider the second claim of the clausal hypothesis first , since it relates to some of the findings which we have just been discussing . |
| 14 | That point of order seems to be related to the matter that we have just been discussing . |
| 15 | In the case which we have just been discussing , that of the common , oppressed people , it is a question of the superego being degraded by alcoholic intoxication to the point where it and the ego can merge ( or , at least where it no longer chastizes the ego ) ; but in the case of the Inca himself we saw that it was a case of a pre-eminent individual whose ego was exalted to the point where it became the ideal ego of the entire civilization . |
| 16 | It is the characteristic of the kind of Governments that have just been turned over beyond the line , in Europe . |
| 17 | For they have just been faced with the prospect of losing £1 million of the money they have to spend on research this year . |
| 18 | The nature of a painter 's technique is never scrutinised so closely as when a work has just been cleaned , and at the heart of the exhibition will be eight of the fourteen Titians in the Louvre 's own collection that have just been freed of their treacly , dark varnishes and retouchings . |
| 19 | Colleagues , the C E C are supporting all the motions that have just been debated , and I propose to take the vote . |
| 20 | Promotions for Phil Constable , 30 , and Steve Sergeant , 37 , have just been announced by police at Winchester , Hants . |
| 21 | It is not clear whether the effort involves simply the client end or the full DB2 — both have just been announced for AIX Unix on the RS/6000 . |
| 22 | It is not clear whether the effort involves simply the client end or the full DB2 — both have just been announced for AIX Unix on the RS/6000 . |
| 23 | Yet such is the burden of bad debts that their final results for the fiscal year to March , which have just been announced , are dismal . |
| 24 | The budgets which have just been prepared show that we are aiming to do even better in 1991 and the managing director 's reports on page 2 endorse this optimistic approach . |
| 25 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |
| 26 | As I write , on Easter day , I have just been listening to Matins from King 's college , Cambridge , broadcast on Radio 3 — superb performances of music by William Byrd and a finely engineered sound . |
| 27 | This brings us to rule five : only ever praise somebody ( a ) in order to condemn someone else ( ‘ Danny Baker is genuinely witty and not childish like so many Radio 1 ‘ personalities ' ’ ) or ( b ) if they have just been sacked ( ‘ I found the previous presenters stylish , informed and witty , creating just the right atmosphere . |
| 28 | In fact I have just been looking at a place in South Audley Street , not far from Mattli . |
| 29 | Egocentric utterances — ‘ I have just been called to head office . ’ |
| 30 | So far we have just been using linear demand curves , with a linear demand curve the slope is constant , however , elasticity varies everywhere along its length . |