Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [pron] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final part provides a description of a family problem through which to try out what has been learned in the preceding parts . |
| 2 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 3 | It is the task of the sociologist to understand all this , to find out what has been done already in this field , to see what light the general background of religious and familial studies can shed on this particular social act , and to formulate original ideas in a more explicitly sociological fashion . |
| 4 | ( a ) some poems by Emily Dickinson , which you analyse ; ( b ) a bibliography ( list of books and articles ) , to find out what has been written by and on this poet ; ( c ) one or more critical articles on Emily Dickinson ; ( d ) a biography of the writer ; ( e ) a dictionary of symbolism , to look up some of the symbols she uses ; ( f ) a concordance to the works of Emily Dickinson ( this is a list of all the words she used , and where she used them ) . |
| 5 | One person can scarcely have the time or the expertise needed to find out what has been published and link this to readers ' needs throughout his authority , especially when book provision is only one of his many responsibilities . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not a pleasant feeling to find out you 've been taken for a ride by someone you trusted . ’ |
| 7 | If you 're wearing , if you 're wearing headphones right you do n't stop everybody 's bound to work out and everyone lets you wear them , everyone 's bound to work out you 've been given permission to wear them . |
| 8 | This distinction can be limpid if the artist is directly interviewed , and the interview is verbatim ; but there are problems of evidence with filming and tape recordings , as well as with interviews , since the viewer or reader is unlikely to know how they have been edited . |
| 9 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 10 | She would find a cab and follow Simon , Ashley decided , catching her breath , but she needed to know where he had been taken . |
| 11 | It is necessary to know when you have been hurt , if you are to avoid making the injury worse . |
| 12 | Do n't you want to know why he 's been looking for you ? ’ |
| 13 | Thinking back yesterday when she 'd arrived , trying to remember exactly what had been said , Robbie had realised the word ‘ flat ’ had never been mentioned . |
| 14 | In these cases , we may want to smooth to remove the effect of events which are unique or which are simply not the main trend in which we are interested ; it is good practice to plot the rough as well as the smooth values , to inspect exactly what has been discarded . |
| 15 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 16 | After the initial dismay he began to wonder why nothing had been devised to protect switches . |
| 17 | I 'm alright , I 'm quite happy just to walk around I 've been sitting , sitting down |
| 18 | In March computer and information services specialists from all over Scotland and Tyneside converged on the Stirling Management Centre to see the CWIS in action and to hear how it had been put together . |
| 19 | ‘ I also want to point out we have been refused access to the match referee 's and umpires ’ reports as to the reasons for the change of ball on August 23 . ’ |
| 20 | If the referees ' confidential comments disagree with their comments to the author then they are denying the authors useful feedback ; if both sets of comments agree should the editor not have to justify why they have been overruled ? |
| 21 | More common , of course , is the situation where the media is in possession of material which it knows the Attorney-General would be able to injunct ( normally on grounds of breach of confidence ) but would be unlikely to pursue once it had been published . |
| 22 | More probably , however , even the final figures will show large declines — the most telling possible proof of how the exhilaration of being able to read almost anything has been replaced by disillusion at being able to buy almost nothing . |
| 23 | As noted in pp 30–31 , the life of this committee is not easy to chart for a number of reasons , and this has made it difficult to determine precisely what has been achieved and to what extent this is attributable to the project . |
| 24 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 25 | It had now become clear that it was necessary to understand why what had been designed and certified as a fail-safe structure had collapsed in the air in quite normal flight operating conditions . |
| 26 | Of course , I had no idea whether these ladies were right or wrong , but the revelation of fragments of past lives helped me come to terms with my true nature , and to understand why I had been troubled in the past . |
| 27 | ‘ The revelation of these fragments of past lives helped me to come to terms with my true nature , and to understand why I had been troubled in the past . ’ |
| 28 | In this syndrome , the central deficit is in the ability to repeat back what has been heard . |
| 29 | A determination to get back what had been taken from them . |
| 30 | She and her husband bought second-hand books regularly , and she would always look in the back to see where they had been printed . |