Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [been] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Or has nothing been said about that yet ?
2 Has somebody been playing with these taps ?
3 A further significant feature is that the ordinary prudent man standard has itself been applied in such a way as to leave the director 's duty of care with little content .
4 The analytic versus holistic dichotomy as it applies to laterality research has been more often invoked to explain results in a post hoc fashion than it has itself been subjected to experimental scrutiny .
5 Not only has it been sailing in calm coastal waters , but it also has one of your sea-marshals on board .
6 Has it been shown to any dentists ? "
7 Nor has anything been said about precise method .
8 Of course , these two approaches are not clear-cut in practice ; in many cases the hypotheses of interest will have themselves been generated by inductive mapping .
9 International concern over the spate of killings of rural union leaders was further heightened by the wounding in an assassination attempt on March 4 of Carlos Cabral , president of the Farmworkers ' Union in Rio Maria in the jungle state of Pará ( and the son-in-law of the union 's founder , Joao Canuto , who had himself been assassinated in 1985 ) .
10 The FLNC had itself been denounced by rival movements , Resistenza , Accolta Naziunali Corsa ( ANC ) and the Union du Peuple Corse ( UPC ) , over its imposition of a " revolution tax " extorted from companies and wealthy individuals .
11 Still in a spending mood it extensively refurbished the bar , extending it into what was then the major part of the lounge , which had itself been refurbished in 1974 .
12 Why , having found herself remarkably unmoved by her succession of boyfriends to date , even Jeremy 's cunning ploys and reasoned arguments , and having reached the not inconsiderable age of twenty-four , had she been consumed with that burning hunger last night ?
13 What 've you been doing to this poor soul ?
14 I can not feel that we had been negligent , had we been dealing with another man .
15 This is probably why Blakemore would have been given a licence had one been needed under previous legislation .
16 True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come .
17 If nationalized industries previously had bad performances , they would have been worth little had they been sold at that stage .
18 Never before had he been subjected to such a plethora of opinions — often form people with whom he had no real relationship , many of whom , bore him and his family substantial grudges .
19 Nor had he been interviewed by any policeman or other official whatsoever during the five months of his stay in Long Kesh Detention Camp .
20 Publication of the disclosed material during the recent criminal appeal hearing , even had it been total , would no more rid it of its prima facie immunity than had it been aired in disciplinary or criminal proceedings brought against the police officers concerned , the situation expressly envisaged in Makanjuola 's case .
21 Had it been blocked before this morning ?
22 Had it been left at that , as she had originally been built , the Angelina , a typical example of the Tehandiri class , would not only have been striking but downright handsome .
23 Why have I been treated in such a cowardly and despicable manner ? ’
24 It were bad where erm Have I been talking in that thing all time ?
25 Have you been chinking like this all the time I 've been gone ?
26 How long have you been living at this address ?
27 Yeah , actually se , I sa , actually she said oh what , have you been walking into this time ?
28 ‘ What on earth have you been doing to these ? ’
29 How long have you been working on that ?
30 We hmm , now , young ladies , how long have you been working on this ?
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