Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] have [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lonely : The spiritual isolation of the disease is lonely enough but add to this the " Jekyll and Hyde " behaviour ( depending upon whether or not a drink or drug has been taken that day ) causing untold damage to family and other relationships and the loneliness becomes intense . |
| 2 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 3 | But all too often , they do n't have to use force to get into a house because a door or window has been left open . |
| 4 | In over 30% of domestic burglaries , the burglar simply walks in without using any force because a window or door has been left open . |
| 5 | Where villas have been found near to or beneath churches , as at Rivenhall in Essex or Cheddar in Somerset , there is at least good circumstantial evidence for continuity on the site . |
| 6 | Extremely profitable multinational companies sell size 10 clothes along with diets , cosmetics , ‘ Dallas ’ , beauty contests , gyms and junk food to First Nation/Third World cultures , where fat has been considered beautiful and healthy . |
| 7 | Wheldon & Wesley has been appointed sole distributor for Europe and America by Yasaka Shobo Inc , Japan . |
| 8 | Along with that , although solicitors have been given limited rights of audience in the courts , seriously complex cases still require specialised counsel and these are in short supply : ‘ You only need one Piper Alpha inquiry and they 'll be tied up for months ’ , he said . |
| 9 | Speculation during that time that Arafat had been killed focused attention on the lack of an obvious replacement for Arafat as PLO chair and Palestinian leader . |
| 10 | The French President , François Mitterrand , confirmed on Oct. 15 that Aoun had been granted political asylum as a " question of honour " and that he would be allowed to remain in the embassy indefinitely . |
| 11 | The rise means that wealth has been increasing faster than incomes . |
| 12 | Belinda nodded , knowing by this time that Faye had been hospitalised several times for keto-acidosis and other diabetes-related problems brought on largely by her former wildly fluctuating blood-sugar levels . |
| 13 | It is known that Rottweilers had been imported prior to the Second World War , probably by German and Dutch immigrants . |
| 14 | He says that he 's advised the farm owner that conditions are n't up to scratch , he says he 'll return to check that things have been put right . |
| 15 | Many critics of the encouragement provided until recently by the UK 's investment grants system in LFAs argue that farmers have been converting increasing areas of moorland and roughland to grass leys ( attracting substantial grants and more HLCAs ) while neglecting pastures previously improved and not maintaining standards of husbandry and land management . |
| 16 | As the UNCTC notes , ‘ the sharp decline in FDI flows to developing countries does not mean that TNCs have been ignoring those areas . |
| 17 | Observers from the US National Democratic Institute said that there had been " serious problems " , that voter registration was incomplete , that registers had not been open for inspection , and that Biya had been allocated 142 minutes of coverage on the state-owned television service between Oct. 7 and polling day , while the six opposition candidates shared only 12 minutes . |
| 18 | Besides , he could just imagine Cashman 's fury if he discovered that Cindy had been staying unchaperoned with Matthew . |
| 19 | But fears grew that Iraq has been breaking United Nations trade embargoes . |
| 20 | The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years . |
| 21 | Reuters news agency reported that KGHM had lost US$70,000,000 and that strikers had been offered one-off payments equivalent to US$100 to US$130 each to go back to work . |
| 22 | Reuters news agency reported that KGHM had lost US$70,000,000 and that strikers had been offered one-off payments equivalent to US$100 to US$130 each to go back to work . |
| 23 | He concluded that Lewis had been knocked unconscious before he drowned . |
| 24 | The flat was sweltering although curtains had been drawn all day to keep the sun out . |
| 25 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |
| 26 | It is pertinent that WHO has been sponsoring comparable field trials in African countries to confirm the adequacy of safety margins in case of inadvertent exposure to pest control agents . |
| 27 | ‘ There is no doubt that Charles has been offered major works at good prices ’ , says one dealer , ‘ because people wanted to see those works in his great collection ; artists have sold him paintings that they would not have sold to anyone else , and they feel betrayed . ’ |
| 28 | Mitra attacked a secret visit by Ramos to Switzerland in mid-February , hinting that Ramos had been seeking foreign funds for his campaign . |
| 29 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 30 | On July 21 it was announced that Ghozali had been appointed Algerian ambassador to Paris [ see also below ] . |