Example sentences of "have [pron] been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has she been bleeding for a two week period ? |
| 2 | In consequence , there has been the pretence that a single perspective grounded in the nineteenth century can capture the essentials of things today , and so constitutional theory has itself been frozen in a way that has confined the parameters of constitutional debate . |
| 3 | Has he been working for a long time ? |
| 4 | Michael Marron had a record of assaulting young boys and had himself been abused as a child . |
| 5 | Four years in the making , the three-day event had itself been organised by a team of 15 people based in the US , Hong Kong , South Africa , Brussels , Leeds and Manchester , all communicating by electronic mail ( so-called ‘ e-mail ’ , in which messages typed into a personal computer are sent by telephone line to a big , central computer that stores them until they are called up by one or more addressees using their own computers ) . |
| 6 | Had she been used for a purpose other than the stated one ? |
| 7 | How many times on a visit to families in the neighbourhood , before being offered a cup of tea , had we been taken around a house — ‘ The grand tour again , ’ sighed Dad — to admire knocked-through rooms , cunning cupboards and bunkbeds , showers , coal bunkers and greenhouses . |
| 8 | But why had they been sitting on a table ? |
| 9 | Furthermore , if the members of the harmonie rustique were moving around the stage as part of the spectacle , it seems much less likely that they would have been changing instruments picking up a flute for one number , a bassoon for another than they might have done had they been playing from a pit . |
| 10 | Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits . |
| 11 | He then said that the program would not have been patentable had it been stored on a floppy disk . |
| 12 | Not even the same matches with the same results would have engendered anything like the same degree of atmosphere or emotion had it been staged at a neutral venue , which is what the situation would be in most years if the one or two weeks idea was adopted . |
| 13 | HAVE YOU BEEN BITTEN BY A VIRUS YET ? |
| 14 | Now , what have you been doing for a whole month ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ How long have you been working as a photographic model ? ’ |
| 16 | Have they been playing as a strike pair for the reserves ? ? |
| 17 | I have myself been welcomed as a local council surveyor come to look at houses in a slum area , and I had an assistant who was once received as a person who was trying to recruit voluntary social workers . |