Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period Churchill took over the coal negotiations and displayed a vigour for settlement which had been entirely lacking in the Prime Minister . |
| 2 | you see , so yeah and er we used to have as I say er , well for instance I 've been up in the office . |
| 3 | ‘ For decades we have been gradually slipping behind . |
| 4 | Its child protection procedures have information about what to do if a child is worried about HIV , and how to make an appropriate referral if HIV/AIDS came up as an issue for child who has been sexually abused . |
| 5 | This research project focuses on three related aspects of the introduction of protection which have been comparatively neglected . |
| 6 | But most do still read reviews , usually as a form of long-stop to make sure they have not missed important titles on their initial selection , or to buy extra copies of titles which have been particularly well received . |
| 7 | And of course he had been extremely relaxed and natural , he could see that . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , of course you 've been there . |
| 9 | Of course she 'd been wrong not to telephone Mrs Trotter . |
| 10 | But of course it has been all right . |
| 11 | This is what is normally called the problem of social order , and of course it 's been around in philosophy and , and social sciences , really since the beginning , and er , some of the greatest and earliest works of er , social philosophy like Plato 's Republic , are really in part about this er question . |
| 12 | I 've been round once , of course I 've been round once you pratt |
| 13 | As to 1 , the court took a rule of liability which had been more or less clearly perceived in connection with the escape of fire , cattle or unruly beasts , and extended it to the escape of mischievous things generally . |
| 14 | That applies to whatever kind of experience you 've been through , and whether you 're a Frances , a Peter , a Jenny , an Ian or a Trevor . |
| 15 | For a group of subjects who have been so hidden , this greater visibility is valuable . |
| 16 | The fame of mind I 've been in from the beginning , ’ he says , ‘ is a belief in the spirit : it moves me , it 's in my heart . |
| 17 | However , in about 25% of animals which have been heavily infected , there is a flare-up of clinical signs during this phase which is frequently fatal . |
| 18 | The mob was demanding the eviction of Meshketians who had been temporarily rehoused in Parkent after being evacuated in February from other parts of Tashkent oblast ( region ) to escape pogroms against their communities . |
| 19 | So in turning to social processes outside employment , we are shifting to a sphere of study which has been well trodden by urban sociology . |
| 20 | This becomes clearer if it is considered from the more general perspective of post-modernism which has been widely characterized as involving a return of history , albeit as a category of representation . |
| 21 | ( 4 ) obtaining familiarity with the types of question which have been consistently set in the past , and making a tentative guess at the likely questions for your examination . |
| 22 | Scientists at the seed company Nickerson International have produced a crop of potatoes which have been genetically modified to resist pests such as the Colorado beetle and tuber moth . |
| 23 | Even the decoits in the interior of Sind who had been closely following Pakistan 's victory march in their hide-outs expressed their joy by firing their weapons in the air without fear of being discovered . |
| 24 | The study involved the analysis of environmental responses in two industrial areas — the domestic fabric detergent sector and plastics waste in the automobile sector — and also an investigation of companies which have been successfully innovated clean technologies . |
| 25 | Even with side stitches taken out of work it had been more than my machine and yarn wanted to tackle . |
| 26 | First , the buyer can not complain of defects which had been specifically drawn to his attention , although naturally the condition will still apply in relation to other defects rendering the goods of unmerchantable quality . |
| 27 | At Wickham 's prompting he painstakingly recalled everything that had happened in the pub that evening up to the time he missed the knife , and recited a list of names of customers who had been there . |
| 28 | The lesson to be learned here is that there are considerable advantages ( in particular with regard to time and money ) to be gained from using the knowledge and experience of firms who have been particularly successful in a specific area of work . |
| 29 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 30 | ‘ Who told you that ? ’ she asked , her voice cracked and full of breath she 'd been too shocked to exhale . |