Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The job of keeping them together has been entrusted to a series of ‘ confidants ’ who write his books , churn out his articles , furnish his quotes , capture his image and sweeten the sour , and when I once asked Niki why he would n't ever do a serious — and in consequence , a truthful — book about himself , he replied , why should he ? |
| 2 | Her chest ached sharply , too , just as though someone really had been hitting into it . |
| 3 | The letters in the May GRAMOPHONE from Messrs Lewis and Newman interest me greatly , because I too have been frustrated by the failure of EMI/US to offer some items which have been favourably reviewed in GRAMOPHONE . |
| 4 | Everyone downstairs had been gawping at her . |
| 5 | With the decline in the herring fishing , followed by a complete ban on all herring catching in an endeavour to build up stocks again , the pelagic catchers turned their attentions to mackerel which hitherto had been despised as food in the North of Scotland . |
| 6 | A Neopolitan nobleman , Federico Grisone , studied Xenophon 's books concerning horses ; and as a result of this he not only opened a riding academy where young noblemen , including the sons of many European kings and princes , were tutored in the arts of handling horses and courtly behaviour ; but he also published , in 1550 , his book Ordini di Cavalcare , of which much had been copied from Xenophon 's works . |
| 7 | ‘ Information should be collected as to the goings-on in parts of Ulster of organisations which lately have been supplied with arms and are being detailed for eventualities . ’ |
| 8 | I would not forsake ye , I would not forsake you for sweetest of scenes : For sweetest of gardens that nature could make me I would not forsake ye , dear valleys and greens : Tho' Nature ne'er dropped ye a cloud-resting mountain , Nor waterfalls tumble their music so free , Had Nature denied ye a bush , tree , or fountain , Ye still had been loved as an Eden by me . |
| 9 | Specialized apparatus , which formerly had been made for specific purposes in the laboratory where it was required , could be obtained from manufacturers of scientific instruments , saving much time and labour . |
| 10 | Confusion also arose when schools took over administrative functions which traditionally had been located in LEAs . |
| 11 | Over a year ago REAL ( the association of estate agents in Edinburgh and the Lothians ) , introduced a maximum conveyancing fee of £350 plus VAT and outlays , a considerable saving on the scale fee which traditionally has been charged by solicitors . |
| 12 | Users of services find it easier to judge the nonclinical aspects of care which traditionally have been undervalued by providers . |
| 13 | Paula Rego 's sequence of prints , inspired by nursery rhymes , actually seizes on language itself as a female domain , originating with the mother , in the nursery , and extended through play and gossip , as depicted in her etching ‘ Secrets and Whispers ’ , and the one she has given to New Hall , ‘ Encampment ’ , which appropriately has been hung in the Senior Common Room , a place to gather and talk , tell stories , exchange ideas . |
| 14 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |
| 15 | Similar considerations apply to the definition of net assets , which again have been presented without a buying or selling perspective . |
| 16 | The scheme was innovatory in providing housing at controlled rents in a converted building on a spectacular riverside site , something which previously had been regarded as the preserve of affluent owner occupiers . |
| 17 | They said hello cheerily as we passed , and for no particular reason other than mindless banter I concluded our exchange with some hopeless attempt at humour , which happily has been blacked from my memory . |
| 18 | Nothing more had been said on that subject . |
| 19 | Ronny Johnsen — nothing more has been said of this in our press . |
| 20 | Nothing further had been heard of her either in Finchley or at the Eastbourne club address . |
| 21 | And for all the last minute protests by the Gotha Museum , nothing further has been heard from them . |
| 22 | Similarly , the letters published by the Women 's Cooperative Guild ( WCG ) in 1915 regarding the maternity experiences of 160 of their members whose husbands earned between 24 and 40 / a week and who mostly had been married during the 1890s , showed that women with large families bitterly regretted it , chiefly because of the hard labour necessary to sustain a large family . |
| 23 | We must not delude ourselves that when we paternalistically include certain Third World artists who hitherto have been excluded from our magazines , galleries and museums , we are correcting our culture . |
| 24 | Mr may I ask you also had been told by somebody that they been planning armed robberies together . |
| 25 | It was immediately clear , as Max had said , that there had earlier been much blood ; soon clear , too , that the body was that of a comparatively young man ; the body of the man whom Morse had interviewed ( with such distaste ) the previous evening ; the man who had been cheated of the Wolvercote Jewel — and the man who now had been cheated of life . |
| 26 | The medal ribbons were borrowed from his elder brother , who really had been wounded on the Somme . |
| 27 | Focusing then on how the new money has been spent , and this is covered in paragraph seven and eight of the report the thirty five thousand pounds conditional resources for Policy Resources Committee has been added to by six thousand seven hundred which er savings from existing budgets within the committee so there 's a total of forty one thousand seven hundred to er each new developments or er or other pressures within the committee and the items that you see before you here have been discussed between the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of this committee er County Planning Officer and Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Policy Resources Committee , so it 's these sorts of discussions that these items have arisen in front of you . |
| 28 | ‘ And I suppose your grandmother , and your parents , and God knows who else has been pawing through them ! ’ |
| 29 | I actually I I intend to believe you actually have been sent by the Jehovah 's Witness to defend the indefensible , it 's a kind of like a and I I y'know , I 'm I 'm sorry but I do n't really think this actually deserves that . |
| 30 | She too had been struck by the similarity between the kitten 's fur and her own hair , and Raphael would have been another subtle reminder for the future of Fen . |