Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I have lost so many big barbel on the Hampshire Avon , Dorset Stour , and the Severn through this that I have been ready to dispense altogether with swimfeeder fishing for big barbel . |
2 | You can confirm this that there have been any convictions for er er er two men conspiring to commit armed robbery or anything of that sort have there ? |
3 | It now seems clear that there had been intense military activity near Loughgall before last night 's shooting , as one eye witness recounts : |
4 | It is also clear that there have been long-term shifts in priorities as the cuts became permanent . |
5 | It is clear that there have been profound changes in North Shields since the mid-1970s . |
6 | Yeah , just as a , as a side issue , I am interested that they 've been growing plum tomatoes because each year I hear of more and more people growing plum tomatoes successfully in this country and while we are just on the subject of diseases and things to control them , you may remember that a few weeks ago we were giving advice on how we should dispose of waste garden chemicals and , and we said you ought to pour it down an outside drain . |
7 | Due to wartime conditions the peasantry got the same amount of agricultural machinery over the years 1915–21 that they had been able to buy in a single year prior to the World War . |
8 | I am afraid that I have been indiscreet . ’ |
9 | I am afraid that he has been far from well for several months . |
10 | It would all have been different if we 'd been able to have children . ’ |
11 | Things might have been different if there had been more consultation with industry people across the board . |
12 | Basically , the things I 've been involved in have always been different and I 've been lucky . |
13 | By the time you 've seen your third rapist walk free because you 've been cleverer than the prosecuting counsel , you lose the taste for that particular victory . |
14 | He knows this because he has been able to decipher ‘ ancient Brahmin tables ’ . |
15 | It is rather more doubtful whether there has been any substantial revision of the opposed theory , of the state as a welfare system and an authentic embodiment of the ‘ general will ’ , in order to take account of real inequalities of political power or the existence , throughout history , of evidently repressive regimes . |
16 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |
17 | There have been as many ways of doing this as there have been ethnographic studies done . |
18 | We were in fact quite wrong as there have been several alldigital recordings made by the firm That 's Entertainment Records prior to ours , with the English National Opera . |
19 | Things go badly wrong when there has been some extreme untoward event such as a fire , an earthquake or a bomb , alternatively an unanticipated combination of faults may occur within the plant itself . |
20 | That once she had been capable of responding ? |
21 | He had sunk so low that she had been obliged to approach Dr McNab for his help . |
22 | However , with the stories of massive repair costs being bandied around and a particularly uninspiring incumbent devoting most of his energies to the adjacent parish , it was understandable that no-one had been brave enough to voice their concern . |
23 | Outside Europe the struggle in the sugar islands was less destructive than it had been 50 or 60 years earlier . |
24 | They have been so pervasive and so self-evident that there has been little point in articulating them . |
25 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
26 | ‘ He deserves a proper thrashing , ’ Cissie protested , fiercely indignant that she had been unable to defend herself while her cowardly brother took delight in whipping her . |
27 | She said , with a catch in her voice , ‘ I — I wish very much that I 'd been able to meet him . ’ |
28 | I am delighted that we have been able to present Embassy with what I consider to have been our best tournament yet . |
29 | I am delighted that I have been able to hit on that point , because the flexibility means that the Opposition can not claim that they will not have enough time to debate those clauses . |
30 | I 'm delighted that you 've been able to come along at such short notice . |