Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Having just been reading a bright-red leaflet we glance up to a plain , white wall — at which instant we see a green patch . |
| 32 | At any point of the communication process , there will have already been established a certain linguistic and non-linguistic environment . |
| 33 | Following the October general election , John Malecela , a former high commissioner to the United Kingdom , was appointed Prime Minister on Nov. 8 , replacing Joseph Warioba , who had hitherto been considered an eventual successor to President Ali Hassan Mwinyi . |
| 34 | The Russian panslavist press had long been advocating a Franco-Russian alliance and in November 1887 Bismarck had forbidden the Reichsbank to float a Russian loan . |
| 35 | Since Dysart too had been to Oxford , it was possible that by taking Morpurgo on at Tyler 's Hard he had merely been doing an old chum a favour . |
| 36 | Patients randomised to the tablet groups were advised to continue their pre-trial diets — unless they had already been taking a high fibre diet — in which case they were encouraged to reduce their fibre intake during the trial . |
| 37 | Chris had already been given a severe ticking-off when he 'd admitted to the box-office that he 'd lost count of the number of tickets and cheques he 'd stuffed into all his suit pockets . |
| 38 | Four political parties had already been allocated an exact number of seats in the Little Hural from party preferences returned during the July elections [ see table below ] . |
| 39 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
| 40 | They were n't real officers , they had just been given a military rank to sit on the tribunal . ’ |
| 41 | Y-you … ’ she spluttered , and , loving him , found it absolutely beyond belief that he should believe that she and his cousin had just been having a fine old time . |
| 42 | As to my sign , you 've already been given an important clue . |
| 43 | He says they 've already been allowed a judicial review over the ban on deer hunting by Somerset Council and we 've requested one in the case of Hampshire . |
| 44 | There were only three crumpled cigarette-packs , a sign that whoever had been in the truck had possibly been waiting a long time . |
| 45 | For another it was learning French at evening classes when she had always been considered a complete duffer at languages . |
| 46 | Edward , on the other hand , had always been accorded a mysterious potency : ‘ They do so depend on him at Croxford . ’ |
| 47 | Wilson found it hard to believe Mr Landor had ever written poetry , that he had ever been judged a great poet , but Miss Blagden , who had moved into the Casa Guidi for the winter , swore that he had been much admired and gave her a whole list of his published works . |
| 48 | I 've also been collecting a whole load of old Electro-Harmonix pedals while I 've been on the road in the States , and they just sound so amazing compared to all these digital pedals ! |
| 49 | ‘ I 've also been told a prolonged illness can start it and , of course , some dogs just have a weakness . |
| 50 | He told the details to an incredulous audience , although tactfully leaving out the part about Steinmark 's base habits , merely suggesting that he had probably been taking a short cut across the line . |
| 51 | A phenomenon from the eyewitness testimony literature which had often been considered an extreme effect of attention focusing in line with Easterbrook 's hypothesis is known as ‘ weapon focus ’ ( Johnson & Scott , 1976 ; Kramer , Buckhout & Eugenio , 1990 ; E. F. Loftus , 1979 ; E. F. Loftus , G. R. Loftus & Messo , 1987 ) . |
| 52 | In 1935 , the very same Neville Chamberlain , who ten years earlier had even been considering a contributory earnings-related scheme , could tell the Conservative Party annual conference that better retirement pensions would be prohibitively costly , would release only a paltry number of jobs and would create grave legal and administrative problems in enforcing the retirement condition : ‘ Are you going to create a new penal offence — the offence of doing work ? ’ he asked . |
| 53 | Chaot had reportedly been nursing a damaged rudder stock for some time , but as water was coming into the boat in increasing quantities , Boschmann decided to abandon ship as soon as other yachts on passage to the Caribbean could come to his assistance . |
| 54 | It should be added here that the high clergy hardly recognized that they had actually been exercising a political religious power of a specifically sectarian or monopolistic type . |
| 55 | Richard North , a local environmental health officer who has been advising the nuns , said that contamination of eggs through the shell via the faeces had never been considered a serious risk either by the working party who had submitted evidence to the Select Committee on Salmonella in Eggs , or by the Public Health Service Laboratories . |
| 56 | I ALREADY reviewed this back in July but now that it 's finally been given a British release ‘ Perfect Day ’ will , in time , be seen as a perfect moment from MFS 's classic period , alongside excursions from Cosmic Baby , Microglobe and Mind Gear . |
| 57 | ‘ You have already been given a full briefing on the facts , ’ said the President . |
| 58 | The council 's plan to replace their Saturday shift with a standby system has infuriated the men whose bosses have just been given a big pay rise . |
| 59 | Kenan 's just been granted a 6-month visa , 4 months after the Nix 's first tried to bring him out of Bosnia . |
| 60 | Kenan 's just been granted a 6-month visa , 4 months after the Nix 's first tried to bring him out of Bosnia . |