Example sentences of "they [vb base] [been] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah it 's more difficult to keep up with others if they if they 're older and they 've been learning this stuff for a lot longer |
| 2 | They 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources and expertise , to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 3 | And yet they 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources , both finance and , and manpower resources and expertise to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 4 | Many local authorities have had their budgets cut by reductions in central government They 've been given better education and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 5 | I I appreciate that point Mr , but as they arrived separately they 've been given different numbers er a as simply er a matter of administrative convenience . |
| 6 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 7 | And you can add to that the fact that a number of districts er have said that they 've been consulted five times by the County Council er on various erm population projections . |
| 8 | ‘ They 've been trying all sorts of stuff , ’ said Angalo . |
| 9 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 11 | And quite apart from the general interest they 've been fetching high prices . |
| 12 | That 's why the windows of the houses are so small — so that they do n't have to see where they 've been working all day long . |
| 13 | They say they 've been promised full consultation with the college 's governing body before a final decisionis made — and so far that has n't happened . |
| 14 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 15 | More recently the Solstice has attracted thousands of New Age travellers , but they 've been banned this year by the same injuctions that now govern Castlemorton common in Worcestershire , where an illegal festival just over a year ago attracted 20,000 travellers . |
| 16 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 17 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 18 | Hence my association with Flip , because they 've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years . |
| 19 | They 've been racing each other for years and have developed a friendly rivalry . |
| 20 | People have paid deposits of $500 … they 've been paying weekly payments of $125 so it could be quite considerable but it could run to thousands of pounds |
| 21 | 50,000 children are admitted into hospital each year because they have been drinking harmful products . |
| 22 | Directors have sometimes been called trustees , or commercial trustees , sometimes they have been called managing partners ; it does not matter much what you call them as long as you understand what their true position is , which is really that they are commercial men managing a trading concern for the benefit of themselves and all the other shareholders … they are bound to use fair and reasonable diligence in the management of the company 's affairs and to act honestly . |
| 23 | They have been called magic bullets because of their use in the treatment of cancer . |
| 24 | In the last 20 years they have been using invisible nylon gill nets half a mile long and more . |
| 25 | Sources said that they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks ' severance pay . |
| 26 | Sources said they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks severance . |
| 27 | The recent Toyne Report ‘ Environmental Responsibility , An Agenda for Further and Higher Education ’ , commissioned by the DoE and the Welsh Office states , ‘ Everybody has some scope for doing his or her job in a more environmentally responsible way , and needs to understand the importance of this … but may well need more than this , either because they have been given specific responsibilities within their organisation , or simply because their organisation 's environmental impact is heavily dependent on the way they carry out their day-to-day tasks , and on the decisions which they have to take . ’ |
| 28 | They are the seeds produced by the fern-like plants such as Mariopteris , but because they are difficult to link with their foliage they have been given separate names . |
| 29 | Mr Andrews believes they have been accepted this year because they are running as a family team . |
| 30 | Permission to offer switched services is unlikely to be denied , but the resale of International Virtual Network services will present more problems , as US carriers feel that they have been denied reciprocal access to the UK , where interconnect , access-deficit and leased line charges are higher than in the US . |