Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I really do think that there is a degree of inconsistency in compelling a Gothic architect to erect a classical building — and so I have been thinking of appointing you a coadjutor , who would in fact make the design ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The purpose of this workshop is to bring people together who have been working in the area of users with special needs or disabilities . |
| 4 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
| 5 | Pigs , grain , potatoes and some breeding sheep were also sold through the system , which involves potential buyers bidding from computer terminals in their own offices for livestock , grain , etc. which have been described in detail to them . |
| 6 | Already I have been approached by a leading soft drinks manufacturer to host the world mountain skateboarding championships down a terrifying course on Sgurr Alasdair . |
| 7 | But I wish it had n't been tonight , for tonight we have been invited to Gemma 's house for supper . |
| 8 | Thus they have been re-encoded into long-term memory and this gives rise to the primacy effect . |
| 9 | ‘ I am disappointed for the crowd because generally they have been treated to some good football here and all our performance lacked was some goals . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Possibly you have been influenced by the examples of masochism in the book , a term I coined to define that particular perversion . |
| 12 | The longer they have been Christians and the more they have been preoccupied with their Christian activities , the more difficult it becomes to relate their beliefs to the perceived needs of their friends . |
| 13 | They left the foster mother 's home on 19 June , and after a period in a children 's home they have been placed with different foster parents . |
| 14 | Later I have been thinking over what Dad said . |
| 15 | They may not be looking for treatment or rehabilitation but er what we can offer them is clean injecting equipment er free condoms , because H I V is transmitted sexually as well , probably more than , more often than in Oxfordshire , er and also we have been prescribing from an assessment clinic in the city centre . |
| 16 | Up until now I have been fascinated by the sound of a bomb leaving the barrel ; this evening and the closeness to the enemy mortar had changed all that . |
| 17 | So far we have been looking at the type of grave-clothes provided for the very wealthy . |
| 18 | So far we have been looking at earthworks particular to deserted settlement sites . |
| 19 | So far we have been talking about the flow of information from the company , but It can be equally important for management to receive information on how the world is thinking about the company and its activities , about rival companies and about the industry in which it operates . |
| 20 | So far we have been talking about the reciprocity of all discourse in the broadest of terms , connecting it to the mechanisms of dialogue only generally by saying that monologues are often constructed with the receiver in mind . |
| 21 | For some thirty years now we have been swamped with books , journals , articles and debates on the theory of cultural politics and the politics of culture . |
| 22 | Typically they have been started by an entrepreneur who brought together a bright , dedicated , hard-working group of colleagues to market a new service or a new product . |
| 23 | Now they have been washed by years of rain into earthy camouflage patterns . |
| 24 | The three VAX servers are said to be able to cope with 1,000 transactions an hour , though so far they have been tested to only a few percent of their capacity . |
| 25 | It 's a job which men take on when they are at the height of their powers but all too often they have been reduced to a sickly shadow of their former self . |
| 26 | All too often they have been segregated from their peers to form ‘ remedial ’ classes — just as disruptive children have . |
| 27 | So that was most popular , very busy person and er , since then more and more shops er have been bought by the Asians and now I think er we cater for , for every need and there are some pubs as well which have been bought by the Asian and The last straw I think is the Conservative club and bought by Mr and two of his er partners . |
| 28 | and , and they may very well my Lord , say well we have been watching with great interest what your Lordship has been doing |
| 29 | And increasingly they have been clustering into the outer South East . |
| 30 | Though it used to be thought that internationalism was the preserve of the large , private corporation , today they have been joined by small firms and many state enterprises . |