Example sentences of "they have [adv] [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's funny they 've never been a great juice freak really |
2 | They 've always been a precarious , yeah , I mean me dad used to work down the shipyard and you know you 'd live in fear for when they would close the yards down |
3 | But perhaps they had n't been the righteous . |
4 | Those shoes , they had n't been the running kind . |
5 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
6 | They had obviously been the Russian barracks , with officers and men quartered there . |
7 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
8 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
9 | The effects of changes in land use on groundwater quality can thus be very significant , and they have again been a major aspect of the BGS Hydrogeology Group 's work . |
10 | They have n't been the sole centre of attention — no one is . |