Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] that " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But Wittgenstein has been seen to argue convincingly that naming is a subsidiary use of language and that many substantives are not used for this purpose ( the psychological participles like ‘ thinking ’ being the obvious example ) and , furthermore , that naming itself is not a sort of primal act of speech acquisition but a clutch of language-games that need to be mastered like any others . |
| 2 | At times it seems as though it may have been evolved to do just that . ’ |
| 3 | Zaria , a relatively new old friend , had been persuaded to stay over that Sunday night as I had convinced her I was missing my faithful feline companion Springsteen , who was back in Hackney guarding the flat we shared . |
| 4 | I know in the recession of lot of parents have been forced to do just that , but it was always going to be a last resort and thankfully this winter 's tour means they can stay on where they are . |
| 5 | Moreover , experiments on pigeons have been thought to rule out that possibility . |