Example sentences of "[det] [prep] they [verb] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the AEC had made no difference to the male participants with five or more preconvictions we would expect over half of them to have been reconvicted . |
| 2 | In both cases the wages of journeywomen were so low that he associates them with prostitution : " Take a survey of all the common women of the town , who take their walks between Charing Cross and Fleet Ditch , and I am persuaded more than half of them have been bred milliners . " |
| 3 | By 1640 all the British colonies in the New World had assemblies of elected representatives to look after local problems of legislation and taxation and , while some of them had been created with royal authorization , some had plainly been set up in order to make independence possible . |
| 4 | I was amazed to realise that some of them had been using their machines for five years and had no idea of the machines capabilities because all the instructions are written in either English , Spanish or Japanese ; nothing in Thai . |
| 5 | Some of them had been used in the catechesis . |
| 6 | Some of them had been mopping the floor ; some washing plates and cups ; some just running , not carrying anything , but speedy and purposeful all the same . |
| 7 | — their terror of having a foot chopped off for stealing ( some of them have been stealing ) |
| 8 | No , we wo , we were just saying like that it 's a shame because like maybe some of them have been made redundant or |
| 9 | Some of them have been invited again and again to meet the London ambulance service for a briefing other than that which they get from the trade union . |
| 10 | Some of them have been getting strong criticism lately . |
| 11 | Although some of them have been drafted in an " institutional " style , others have been deliberately kept simple . |
| 12 | Nobody 's job is secure , but some jobs are more secure , have always been more secure than others and if you 've been , as some of them have been relying on overtime |
| 13 | Unfortunately , I could not find either a clear description of what these psychotherapies amount to nor a critical account of the scientific trials to which some of them have been subjected . |
| 14 | Some of them have been used as an indirect way of seeing the file by parents denied access for themselves . |
| 15 | Some of them have been got at by the plant-breeders and bear no resemblance to the species or variety originally discovered ; some remain the same , being already sufficiently beautiful or useful . |
| 16 | Nor , for that matter , are they all able to make first-hand experiments with teaching style , some of them having been promoted out of contact with the pupils . |
| 17 | Chatterton , Fagg , Fishbane and Glastonbury were huddled together in the Smoking Room , from which each of them had been extracted for a brief conversation with Milton . |
| 18 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 19 | For , while these theories pursued distinctive concerns , ideas drawn from each of them have been blended by political theorists to create an identifiable body of ideas with certain distinctive characteristics . |
| 20 | Those who do not believe in delegation to committees argue that each of them has been elected by the public to watch their interests and therefore they should each have a voice in the decisions of every committee . |
| 21 | Each of them has been transformed into a breathtaking beauty ! |
| 22 | The objective of the other forms of nationalization was clearly similar and the effect of each of them has been to reduce foreign ownership in the corporate sector to a relatively modest level . |
| 23 | So far neither of them had been defeated . |
| 24 | Erm , and neither of them have been brought here , they 've done the bit that suits them , of of of civilianising the the the er crime prevention officers but the bit that actually needed doing they 've not done |
| 25 | Alexei was amazed that Jotan had seen fit to risk the lives of both his wife and daughter on an escapade such as this , and he wondered if either of them had been warned about what was to happen . |
| 26 | Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif ( whose relatives owned two of the four co-operatives implicated — see p. 38438 ) and Interior Minister Choudhry Shujat Hussain had admitted to receiving loans but said that all of them had been repaid . |
| 27 | All of them had been trained by the School from the age of eight or nine , eight having made their debut at the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 28 | They were known as the Cedar Boys and it became clear that nearly all of them had been orphaned as the Third Reich took its terrible toll on European Jewry . |
| 29 | The contents of all of them had been pulled out and scattered all over the floor . |
| 30 | The last man reached the fresh air base at 12.05 a.m. on Sunday , 10th September , and soon afterwards , all of them had been brought to the surface . |