Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year . |
| 2 | It is interesting that although no one suggests that there actually was a ‘ standard English ’ in Early ME times , the doctrine of uniformity has nevertheless been applied to ME . |
| 3 | However , if he 's left alone for a minute it feels like an hour to him , he can not remember what has just been said to him , therefore he will repeat himself endlessly , and he has no frame of references to enable him to take part in any kind of conversation . |
| 4 | You see I 've got with me in the studio here Stan Bowes , who 's the head of marketing for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board , and Stan has just been explaining to us that there is this campaign to encourage people to take holidays in this country . |
| 5 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |
| 6 | So it will help to keep your Bible open at the passage which has just been read to us , from the ninth chapter of the gospel according to Matthew . |
| 7 | Well , I can report on that front that we have been offered the opportunity to secure a few locomotives ( one has already been given to us ) , and a number of pieces of rolling stock . |
| 8 | I think this has already been reported to your office . |
| 9 | They have been over the greater part of Van Diemen 's Land and the Islands in Bass 's Straits and appear highly gratified with their peregrinations : a government vessel has generally been devoted to their use . |
| 10 | Suffice it to say that all attempts to evict Dicky from his rightful home have met with considerable misfortune , and disturbance of such a nature that he has quickly been restored to his home . |
| 11 | But even more so , the miraculous survival of the Jewish people has mainly been ascribed to their faithful adherence to these laws . |
| 12 | Much of the responsibility for running our community and educational programmes has now been devolved to our business and operating sites . |
| 13 | The banking hall was partitioned to contain the noise of the new computers but the hall has now been restored to its original open form . |
| 14 | Although seriously damaged in World War II the museum has now been returned to its original magnificence . |
| 15 | The chapel has now been returned to its former glory . |
| 16 | ‘ To discuss the will of your sister , the late Miss Faith Margaret Lavender , which has today been brought to my attention . ’ |
| 17 | It has sometimes been suggested to me that the portfolio-matrix approach is inconsistent with finance theory because it balances investment over different businesses and this is inconsistent with the finance theory view of the irrelevance of corporate diversification . |
| 18 | In a document that has conveniently been leaked to me , the hon. Gentleman , without any hesitation , contradicts the words of the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) in ’ Raising the Standard ’ . |
| 19 | Thirdly , having overcome our sectional tensions and established a corporate identity we can perhaps enlist the support of our universities and our professional associations to establish more and better access to the funding which in relation to the sciences , has historically been denied to us . |
| 20 | Greater responsibility has therefore been passed to us to take care of the day-to-day logistics involved with offshore work . |
| 21 | It has recently been called to our attention that Innocent added the notion of the Church of purgatory to the Church militant ( the Church on earth ) and the Church triumphant ( the Church in heaven ) , championing the idea of three armies that acted through fire , combat and praise . |
| 22 | Why this ceremony has to take place so early in the morning has never been explained to me , but it appears to be as essential a part of the nuptials as the Hindi movie music the night before . |
| 23 | The view mentioned by the hon. Gentleman has never been put to me and I did not see the article to which he referred . |
| 24 | This latter is what , in 20 years of campaigning to get public access to Range West , has never been accorded to me or to anyone else who has raised the issue . |
| 25 | For she 'd literally been shaken to her roots when the clothing firm she 'd worked for for the past six and a half years had collapsed , making the entire work-force redundant . |
| 26 | A man who 'd once been engaged to her sister . |
| 27 | He 'd never been used to them . |
| 28 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 29 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 30 | The route the Phillips had been asked to consider had already been put to them three times and was the same as the existing one , he said . |