Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] been [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Richard Allan , establishment director , said : ‘ They 've not been allowed any alcohol . |
| 2 | They 've not been allowed any breakfast . ’ |
| 3 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
| 4 | There were doctors concerned that they had never been given any information about a nuclear accident , farmers worried about the effect of contamination on their stock and crops , and a teacher who recited his own poem about a nuclear disaster and then presented the Inspector with an oak leaf from the Quantocks . |
| 5 | Mr Siddle said they had never been given any written instructions by Redpath Offshore about safety , but as a skilled workman he knew about having to support loads . |
| 6 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 7 | They have n't been fighting all these years to get rid of communism to see it re-emerge again so you , the confusion continues , as it is in Russia , and then you insinuate the idea that , with the breakdown of social order and so on , you must have a strong man , you must have strong arms and that 's where your Hitlers and your Mussolinis and all these people come through in that little vacuum in between of disorder . |
| 8 | This is no mean task , especially if they have not been doing any recruitment for the past few months . |
| 9 | They have apparently been doing this for some time . |
| 10 | The authority for doing things this way lies in the fact that they have always been done this way and so questioning is not encouraged . |