Example sentences of "they have [adv] [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To imagine for the last time the forests and oceans , green and alive , the way they 'd always been in historical dramas . |
| 2 | Yes they 've always been like that and they always will be like that . |
| 3 | And , and how do people find out about you if they 've perhaps been through psychiatric illness ? |
| 4 | After 1983 , the ‘ frontiers of the state ’ were , in this respect at least , rolled back as they had not been since 1945 . |
| 5 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 6 | They had never been on Scottish waters before and planned to go round Skye . |
| 7 | They were marching behind the others with great dignity , accountable as they had always been for good order and common sense and respectable behaviour . |
| 8 | Yet , all in all , farming and the farm remained visibly what they had always been in most parts of the world : more prosperous in the developed areas , and hence investing more heavily in improvements , buildings , etc. , more businesslike in many places , but not transformed out of recognition . |
| 9 | ‘ Work , ’ she told him quietly , her eyes seeking the dark depths of his for something that would relate to what they had once been to each other in Seville . |
| 10 | They had recently been on separate holidays , met support workers ' families at their homes , danced at a party and had their photographs taken cuddling the few weeks ' old daughter of a woman Elizabeth met at church . |
| 11 | Conflicts of both interest and duty are not new to the City of London ; indeed , they have traditionally been of great concern to financial market regulators . |
| 12 | They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals . |
| 13 | If male doctors have difficulty accepting or understanding this it is probably because they have not been in such powerless positions since childhood . |
| 14 | They share the fact that they have all been of limited duration but , within that framework , one has been concerned with local skills training , four have involved modules contained within honours degree courses ( Typography and Graphic Communication , Library Science , Publishing and Computer Science respectively ) and one has been at postgraduate level . |
| 15 | ‘ They have never been in that position before some of them are classic cases of Thatcher 's children . |
| 16 | Taxes are higher than they have ever been in this country 's history , and the burden falls disproportionately heavily on lower-income families . |
| 17 | One of them had only been at Long Lartin for three weeks … |