Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] have been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The flat was sweltering although curtains had been drawn all day to keep the sun out . |
| 6 | The presiding ‘ judge ’ begins by referring to the case ( he need not read it out if copies have been made available to the audience ) ; then he says : ‘ I call upon Mr/Miss X ’ ( the leading counsel for the appellant , who sits upon the judge 's left — that is to say , what the judge sees as his left ) . |
| 7 | If Lewis had been learning more than he knew before about humility , Williams had been learning more than he knew before about medieval literature . |
| 8 | The bruise was a dull , greenish sickle of shadow just under the cheek-bone and then a comma of purple on the side of the nose , as if Culley had been wearing ill-fitting glasses . |
| 9 | If engraving has been involved this is normally simple since , unless the book has been heavily cropped , the rectangular plate mark is visible as a slight indentation . |
| 10 | Design right lasts for 15 years from the end of the calendar year in which it was first recorded in a design document ( which includes storage in a computer ) or an article was made to the design , unless articles have been made available for sale or hire within the first five years in which case the right lasts only a further 10 years . |
| 11 | Edna 's had to go home because Mum 's been took sick . ’ |
| 12 | What we 're , in effect what we 're saying is that for a a number of years the Communist Party has provided , has made that moral economy work i in a s and made it work very well because rents have been reduced more than the peasants would expect erm er interest rate is extremely low . |
| 13 | Because Britain had been producing nuclear power longer than most other countries , this was a particularly acute problem . |
| 14 | The ones who do object , and with reason , are those whose land has been trampled over without care , whose stock have got loose because gates have been left open or walls broken down , or whose sheep have cut themselves or choked to death on the bottles and plastic bags thrown away by the Wandering Wallies of this world that have as much common sense and appreciation of the countryside as a toad has feathers . |
| 15 | Genetic Engineering : This is a first attempt to legislate in this area , currently dealt with by voluntary codes of practice , because science has been moving quicker than the law makers . |
| 16 | She had never got used to the hours since John had been made redundant when all the ships were laid up . |
| 17 | Whilst librarians have been saved some paperwork , statistics of use for individual theses will now be impossible to obtain from BLDSC , and the present type of research methodology will no longer be practicable . |
| 18 | After glasses had been refilled one of us — Tony , I think — said , ‘ Why do we just talk about it ? |
| 19 | After warning had been given that poll-tax bills will average £400 ( $780 ) in April , Westminster council announced that residents will have to pay only £176 , down £19 on last year . |
| 20 | However , the idea of capital maintenance also has economic significance : income is only recognized after capital has been maintained intact . |
| 21 | That hateful inspector had dragged her away , even though Ma had been weeping enough to fill a kettle . |
| 22 | What has perhaps been accorded less attention has been the ways in which policy and implementation have involved a feedback from implementation as policies have been found inadequate to meet the demands of ‘ good professional practice ’ . |
| 23 | Linda had her own part-time job helping out at Oxfam and listening to infants read at the nearby Primary School , so she had less time in fact than her husband , for Frank had been made redundant from his job in electronics in October . |
| 24 | For Theda had been woken one night , a few days after Mr Aycliffe 's visit , by Hector whining next door . |
| 25 | Tim and Pistol were in a pub when Pistol had been made angry by the men in the pub . |
| 26 | It might be possible for people in such circumstances ( perhaps when redundancies have been notified some weeks in advance ) to be supported and perhaps taught techniques to cope with the anxiety and avoid being overpessimistic or ‘ catastrophising ’ ( see next section ) . |