Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been working since early morn , |
| 2 | I had been complaining that one day I must become a good daughter again and go back home for a visit . |
| 3 | I 've been told that these big old country houses are beautiful . |
| 4 | We are urgently searching for a set — I 've been informed that some surviving sets are twisted — and if it means that we have to look abroad for a new set in Poland than so be it ! |
| 5 | However , I have been informed that some , even most , regions of British Telecom disregard the instruction . |
| 6 | I have been informed that this once happened , with the death of a number of hounds . |
| 7 | We have an energy-rich country and a massive trading balance , so why the hell are we importing electricity from France which I believe attracts the nuclear and importing coal from dubious sources and I have been told that some of that coal has been extracted by women and children , often in horrendously unsafe conditions . |
| 8 | I have been told that this decision was partly in response to lobbying by feminist groups . |
| 9 | I have been told that this might happen . |
| 10 | But in a letter of clarification to the Wales TUC , he said later : ‘ I have been advised that sufficient development work will be continued to avoid the outcome of the review being prejudiced . |
| 11 | I have been guaranteed that double glazing will solve window condensation . |
| 12 | Lucky is looking bent which has been bent and battered ! |
| 13 | Much of this work , such as his theory of social forms , which has been seen as one of the foundations of the discipline of sociology , will be ignored . |
| 14 | A father 's influence which has been revealed as destructive and all but disastrous is thought to have remained dominant — as was only natural — until the women broke away for good . |
| 15 | At other times it may be beneficial to withdraw children with special needs individually or in groups for concentrated attention on an aspect of learning which has been diagnosed as necessary . |
| 16 | If female cadets are admitted , the Citadel ‘ would be required to change an educational philosophy which has been tested and proven sound for almost 150 years , ’ declared William Risher , chairman of its board of visitors . |
| 17 | The er the honourable gentleman might well have seen a copy of the er the provisional report which has been prepared but that provisional report is er the same basis as the report er which was presented to er Westminster city council er and then we were n't talking er a difficulty of er two million pounds created , created as a direct result of government under funding of the police authority there , we were talking about the expropriation of millions of pounds to line the pockets and to further the political interests of his party and I did notice the honourable gentleman er vociferous in his condemnation of Westminster city council or any of the other tory controlled city councils . |
| 18 | Some of the typical distinctions between discourse which has been written and that which has been spoken can be seen in the following two descriptions of a rainbow . |
| 19 | Here two separate effects may be observed , firstly a distinctiveness effect where a single arousing item in a series is likely to be well remembered simply because it is different from the other items , and secondly an effect which has been described as similar to Easterbrook 's hypothesis in general task performance . |
| 20 | Seventy two per cent of the resected patients did not have lymph node involvement , and more than one third ( 36% ) had neither node involvement nor full thickness penetration of the oesophageal wall , which has been reported as favourable . |
| 21 | ’ Ever closer union ’ is an objective which has been reaffirmed and defined time after time in successive meetings of the European Council . |
| 22 | Marshall continued , stressing the amount of work which had been done and offsetting , he hoped , the poor impression caused by his lightheartedness . |
| 23 | The budget was smaller , however , than the 7,700 million ECU which the Commission had originally proposed , but which had been seen as excessive by the UK , Spain and the Netherlands . |
| 24 | New owner Ena Giles spent over £30,000 in renovating the building , which had been vandalised while unoccupied . |
| 25 | The towpath , covered with a build-up of earth and grass which had been accumulating since commercial traffic on the canal ceased in the 1930's , was cleared to a width of one metre for a distance of about half a mile . |
| 26 | In the main square ( Largo do Fonte ) in Monte there is a shrine with the Virgin of Monte in it , built in 1897 to replace the original one which had been destroyed when one of the large chestnut trees fell on it . |
| 27 | Isolated pockets of alluvium and fluvioglacial material were encountered in various small valleys along the route which had been formed as glacial melt-water channels . |
| 28 | The policy of artistic worthiness which had been pursued since Tubular Bells , three years before , had produced progressively diminishing returns . |
| 29 | His shop was in the merchants ' quarter of the city — a maze of buildings which had been divided and sub-divided , so great was the demand for space , which lay within the strictly enforced boundaries of the streets which radiated from the Golden Yurt like the spokes of a wheel . |
| 30 | J. F. Campbell tells of sticks with sharpened ends which had been burnt and hardened in a fire and said he had seen one of them found in a moss , and writes " They used to throw them from them , and could aim exceedingly with them , and they could drive through a man . |