Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has only been flown back a month ago from the near east . |
| 2 | This board of directors has just been spelling out the fact that we 're in big trouble ; we 're heavily in debt , we 're showing a … a net loss before taxation … we can barely afford this month 's wages bills , we ca n't meet half our orders … all that does n't just come blazing in overnight after an accident with the new singeing machine in the printing plant … ’ |
| 3 | The problem with industry-funded research has always been sorting out the intellectual property rights . |
| 4 | The WE177 free-fall bomb will be approaching the end of its service life around the turn of the century , but no decision has yet been taken on the system to replace it , or where it will be based . |
| 5 | This renormalization procedure has never been put on a very firm conceptual or mathematical basis , but it has worked quite well in practice . |
| 6 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 7 | He had obviously been sleeping out the daylight in the gloom of the kirk , never expecting that some idiot with a camera , rucksack and heavy boots would come crashing into his bedroom . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've also been sorting out the dates for the let shoots . |
| 9 | Unfortunately their ideas have not been tested out a great deal in other areas of London or the rest of the country , so we can not be at all sure whether the findings they claim are appropriate for application to the whole of our society are in fact so . |
| 10 | The Ranthambhore Foundation claims that reserve officials have also been covering up the scale of the problem for fear of being accused of failing in their duties . |