Example sentences of "[pron] have been [vb pp] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although notice accounts are normally worthwhile , the return on them has been cut so much that there 's little reason for people to choose them over postal accounts . |
| 2 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 3 | I 've been sat there all evening nobody 's eaten it so I thought I might as well get on and eat it |
| 4 | Oh yeah , I 've been told as much . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been kept very much in the dark about what is going on . |
| 6 | I have been described as many things , but that is the first time I have been described as a tourist attraction . |
| 7 | The whole should be imagined as a huge and intricate multi-branched tree which has been designed so that axes similar in shape ( as determined by the shape difference measure ) lie in branches near each other . |
| 8 | That evening I went to the Charity Gala Evening in aid of Birthright , and the Keats- Shelley Memorial Association , at the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair which had been opened earlier that day by Prince Edward . |
| 9 | I am very conscious of what I would not be putting forward but I would include Rachel Whiteread for her contribution to Documenta : I 'm watching Anya Gallachio who has just shown at the ICA , and I would include Angela Bulloch who has been understood abroad more than here . |
| 10 | Yet , the Labour MP Jeff Rooker claims , there have been examples of Royal Warwickshire prisoners of war seeking desperately needed help who have been given as little as £25 , while many more have been means-tested and found ‘ unqualified ’ for even basic financial assistance . |
| 11 | Mining unions who 've been told even more pits may soon close say the government must do more to secure orders . |
| 12 | I think you 'd better go next door , you 've been warned enough this afternoon . |
| 13 | That has a go , an attack , about everything because you 've been rejected so many times , so many times , and will continue to be rejected when we get the next election that you 're frightened to death to have . |
| 14 | On the eve of her seventh birthday , Nanny told Artemis that she had been invited downstairs that very afternoon to take tea with her father . |
| 15 | But young farm workers today are part of the post-war generation of rural inhabitants who have been subjected far more than preceding generations to the cultural influences and judgements of wider society . |
| 16 | Although we 'd been left pretty much to our own devices in the last months in the Pit , the year and a half underground had become increasingly depressing . |
| 17 | He is not the first Federal Reserve chairman to visit Moscow , but never can one have been paid as much attention . |
| 18 | Kathie is all Nell has got , we 've been told this several times ; he appeals to Nell as the mother of their only child , not to cause her to leave home . |
| 19 | ‘ So where are all these bleedin' Germans we 've been told so much about ? ’ |
| 20 | Previous to this we had been left very much to our own resources . |
| 21 | We have been left so much to our own devices — after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people 's . |
| 22 | they 'd been ca they 'd been called so many times you know when he was low . |
| 23 | Probably cos they 've been done that much . |
| 24 | There was no covert there larger than an acre or two and they had been placed as much for their scenic effect as for their game-preserving role . |
| 25 | They have been attracted as much by the intellectual image as by the high level of celebrity support from artists like John Cleese , Peter Gabriel and Sting . |
| 26 | After they have been released then these anxiety dreams start . |
| 27 | Many people say that near Frankenhausen in Thuringia is a mountain in which Frederick Barbarossa may be found … he has been seen there many times . |
| 28 | Biologists have developed a theoretical framework within which the evolution of virulence can be analysed , and it has been demonstrated experimentally that virulence can evolve in response to alternative modes of parasite transmission . |
| 29 | It has been made plain that Government policy on aid will be increasingly conditioned by the performance of recipient governments in terms of human rights and observance of democratic practices , and I wholly welcome that . |
| 30 | Moreover it has been suggested earlier that one important issue for social policy that arises in relationship between public authorities and private agencies is that the latter may be the instruments by which government executes policy . |