Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this week the IMF made public what everyone has been saying in private : that there can be little foreign help on offer until the Soviet Union reforms its ‘ rotten ’ economy . |
| 2 | Shown as a single work of art at the Tate Gallery and three other European museums in 1962–63 , those six canvases were subsequently divided and sold separately , and none of them has been included in any recent exhibition of Bacon 's art . |
| 3 | Someone has been murdered in mysterious circumstances : how has it come about ? |
| 4 | The last dying patient I 'd been to visit in this hospital had been the caretaker of our Health Centre , in much pain from a carcinoma of the pancreas . |
| 5 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 6 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 7 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I had been booked in one of the earlier matches at Windsor Park but I was n't certain , ’ said the Queen 's Park Rangers centre back . |
| 9 | For nine years , I 've been living in unwedded bliss with my partner Christian . |
| 10 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 11 | For what it is worth , I have been saving in this way for years myself . |
| 12 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 13 | I have always thought that we entered the ERM at a rate of exchange that was much too high , and I have been reinforced in this view by Britain 's poor showing in international trade during the past 18 months . |
| 14 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 15 | Although the survey was carried out in 1987 , and events in education have moved on with amazing rapidity since then , many of the conclusions that can be drawn from the interviews seem to have retained their relevance , particularly in the context of the issue I have been exploring in this chapter . |
| 16 | I have been sitting in this armchair for about an hour . |
| 17 | How can teachers be prepared to undertake the process of pragmatic mediation that I have been proposing in these chapters ? |
| 18 | ‘ Sir , ’ said a voice , ‘ in your place , I would have refreshed myself some inches upstream from my feet , for I have been walking in these boots for months , and the juice flowing away from me can not be sweet . |
| 19 | You know , I , I have been put in that situation before , when I 've actually seen , you know , and most reporters are working secondhand , but , you know , I have been in the position where I 've actually seen , part of a police operation take place , mainly because I 'd got stopped coming out on the Huntingdon Road after the , the Mill Road Post Office was , was knocked over a year or so ago . |
| 20 | It is this assumption which I have been questioning in this paper . |
| 21 | So clear is this conclusion to my mind that , notwithstanding anything which has been said in other cases , I would be very slow to concede that the word ‘ appropriates ’ in section 1(1) is in its context ambiguous . |
| 22 | It is not yet clear how many criteria teachers and others can be expected to manage , or find useful , but the limited amount of research and observation which has been conducted in this area suggests that teachers do not always work at a high level of detailed information . |
| 23 | In Yip Kai-foon the Privy Council rejected the solution which has been adopted in some jurisdictions of directing the jury to convict of the offence which they consider to be more probable . |
| 24 | Perhaps they have read or heard of some of the research which has been done in this field in recent years , and it has opened up their minds . |
| 25 | In this assessment of the sexual climate we may now look at some of the more reputable work which has been done in this country to analyse sexual experience and attitudes among our population . |
| 26 | Reference has already been made to this and it has been emphasised that the requirement of a nominal monetary value is an arbitrary and illogical one which has been rejected in certain other common law jurisdictions . |
| 27 | One of the factors influencing the career decisions of professionals is opportunity for career advancement , which has been limited in this field until recently . |
| 28 | Richard Ryder is friendly , tactful and warm but has a ruthless streak which has been exposed in recent days . |
| 29 | The Cluanie Inn is a fine hotel in a splendid old building , which has been extended in recent years so sensitively , soon it will be difficult for passers-by to tell the old from the new . |
| 30 | One pattern of language use which has been observed in some bilingual communities is that of reciprocal language use . |