Example sentences of "they have [adv] been [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes they 've always been like that and they always will be like that . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals . |
| 6 | If male doctors have difficulty accepting or understanding this it is probably because they have not been in such powerless positions since childhood . |
| 7 | ‘ They have never been in that position before some of them are classic cases of Thatcher 's children . |
| 8 | Taxes are higher than they have ever been in this country 's history , and the burden falls disproportionately heavily on lower-income families . |