Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [vb base] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So where are all these bleedin' Germans we 've been told so much about ? ’ |
| 2 | None of these tenants have access to any tools or materials , and in some cases they 've been told that they 'll have to pay for the repair work . |
| 3 | Over the past few months they have been told that their primary and community health care is awful ; now the government tells them that accident and emergency departments will shut , along with 2000-odd hospital beds , when their immediate evidence is that it is hard to get into hospital . |
| 4 | Over the past few months we 've been advising you to take all the hype about the death of the 386 with a generous pinch of salt . |
| 5 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
| 6 | Over the last few months I have been working my way through the variation switches . |
| 7 | I mean , at last I will be able to try out all the French words I have been learning . |
| 8 | In some countries HIS have been developed as part of strengthening health management ( SHM ) moves . |
| 9 | In general these movements have operated only at grass-roots level , but in some areas they have been joining up to form networks of organisations of the urban poor . |
| 10 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 11 | For some years I have been campaigning to open up the unofficial footpath along the north edge of the field bordering Baberton golf course , which links Muirwood Road to Bloomiehall Park . |
| 12 | For some years I have been running what is the largest programme in the world for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject in schools . |
| 13 | In the past 30 days you have been training your body to work at its optimum potential ; and you will now have a good idea of what you can achieve by using the Walking Diet recipes and aerobic walking . |
| 14 | In the last few years we have been promised ( and in the UK have never actually been given ) ready-made video programmes on EVR , requiring one set of equipment , and on videodisc , requiring another . |
| 15 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 16 | Today the big draught breeds , especially in the Massif Central , have found new roles in the beef industry and over the last few years they have been exported in increasing numbers to boost beef production in several parts of the world , sometimes displacing some of the famous traditional British beef breeds . |
| 17 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 18 | Over the past few weeks I have been dipping into the annual report — for last year — of the Medical Defence Union , an outfit that deals with legal claims against doctors for alleged incompetence , negligence and other failings . |
| 19 | OVER the past few weeks I have been attempting to assess the relative marketing merits of companies as diverse as theatre companies , electrical retailers and peat producers . |
| 20 | These little shrubs are also known as ‘ hedgehog ’ hollies , and probably have been for all of the 300 years they have been grown in gardens . |
| 21 | C. oncophora and C. curticei are generally considered to be mild pathogens in calves and lambs respectively although in some studies they have been associated with inappetence and poor weight gains . |
| 22 | Now this techniques we 've been using here is for you can use that for any straight line graph . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , it is for these displays of nature 's most powerful forces at work that volcanoes are chiefly known , and in almost all primitive societies they have been regarded with fear and identified with deities and evil spirits . |
| 24 | Over the last few issues we 've been focusing on minor scales and their application . |
| 25 | Compared with the social services we have been examining , the residue present the institutional problem only in a comparatively mild form . |
| 26 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 27 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 28 | For the past 10 years we 've been working on synthesising the chemical ; now we 're trying to see if the European Yew will provide the starter material for producing anti-cancer activity . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ Over the past 10 years we have been striving hard to maintain the numbers of part-time firefighters which are needed for this vital community service . ’ |
| 30 | Well , if you 're talking about the smallest sort of business , and you 've spent maybe two thousand pounds on your actual computer , complete with a printer and the floppy discs I 've been talking about , then you might expect to spend another five hundred to a thousand pounds on a basic set of software . |