Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 2 | She seemed to have completely forgotten her rage , or perhaps it had been channelled into a more dangerous , calculating form , thought Isabel in dread . |
| 3 | Or perhaps it 's been moved . |
| 4 | Or perhaps you 've been telling her about when her periods will be due . |
| 5 | It will re-introduce some lorries onto the A ten eighty eight , but only about thirty per day compared with the six hundred or so which have been removed as a result of a current experiment . |
| 6 | Every now and again — or so she 'd been told — the owners would call in the books . |
| 7 | During the last half hour or so she had been pacing the room like a caged animal , insisting that the door should be kept ajar and the window opened wide . |
| 8 | In the past half century or so it has been discovered that water is a very strange substance indeed , exhibiting many anomalous and unexpected characteristics , some of which have already been mentioned in Chapter 7 . |
| 9 | She shows some talent , or so I 've been told . |
| 10 | ‘ Or so I 've been told . ’ |
| 11 | Or so I had been told . |
| 12 | Or so I have been led to understand . |
| 13 | He knew the most trusted adviser of the late Tsar Peter had been a Scotsman , but there had been four Tsars since then , and there was a Tsarina , Elizabeth , on the throne , or so he had been told in Vilna . |
| 14 | That is where , or so he had been told , Brighton still offered a whiff of the cosmopolitan , esoteric atmosphere of the Left Bank in Paris or a hint of Berlin 's former decadence . |
| 15 | It turned out the Australian 's baggage with much expensive equipment had never arrived in Quito , not even made it to the continent ( or so he 'd been told ) , and I sensed he had no sympathy left for any other 's misfortune . |
| 16 | There were only about seven people left now out of the dozen or so who had been gathered here earlier . |
| 17 | Thus you and the employee may jointly search for standards which are mutually acceptable which do not lead to hours of argument about whether or not they have been achieved . |
| 18 | Many educationists , administrators and teachers , especially those of a technocratic or managerial frame of mind , continue to argue that evaluation must be concerned with establishing educational objectives and then systematically monitoring , often by statistical methods , whether or not they have been achieved . |
| 19 | Justice , on the contrary , is concerned with the decisions that the standing political institutions , whether or not they have been chosen fairly , ought to make . |
| 20 | The nurse who admits new patients needs to explain whether or not they have been allocated to her in a patient allocation scheme ; if so , for how long she will be on duty ; and the staffing arrangements that will be made for the other two shifts . |
| 21 | Whether or not what has been suggested here reflects your view of the world is immaterial . |
| 22 | The provisions determining exactly whether or not anything has been added have , predictably , already proved so unclear that a Revenue statement of practice ( SP5/92 ) has been issued to resolve some of the more obvious difficulties of interpretation . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's waiting to hear whether or not he 's been cast , and he 'll be feeling like a caged bear , poor darling . |
| 24 | Other recommendations included the complete withdrawal of allegations against detainees held without trial with a " clear and unequivocal apology for the wrongs they have suffered " and financial compensation for all victims of abuse whether or not it had been proved that they were agents of the South African government . |
| 25 | You will be obliged to progress a case until you have formed a view on liability whether or not it has been vetted by the work provider . |
| 26 | It is clearly laid down in the Act that it is for them to consider whether or not the nuisance exists , whether or not it has been abated , and whether it still exists , and , if it does , it is for them to consider which of the requirements of the abatement notice are to be carried out or how otherwise the nuisance is to be abated . |
| 27 | Equally the buyer will not be able to sue for non-delivery unless he was ready and willing to pay or else it had been agreed that he could have credit . |
| 28 | Either the imaginary has been ignored altogether , in which case Irigaray is mistakenly described as a biological essentialist ( Sayers , 1982 , p. 131 ; 1986 , pp. 42–8 ) , or else it has been interpreted as purely and simply a Lacanian concept , in which case the conclusion is that Irigaray has misunderstood or misread Lacan , and has not taken on board the implications of his theory ( see Mitchell and Rose , 1982 , pp. 54 6 ; Rose , 1985 , pp. 136 , 140 ; Ragland-Sullivan , 1986 , pp. 273–80 ) . |
| 29 | But something like the choir or where you 've been working , I do n't know you , I , I 've got this thing which is |
| 30 | To an extent the penned hands were also dependent on the nationality of the scribe or where he had been trained . |