Example sentences of "[prep] they have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often , however , the facilities provided for them have been lamentable , not merely basic but squalid — safety and comfort has not been regarded as a priority — a prevailing stench of stewed onions — in stark contrast to the different world , only yards away , in the board room and the lucrative executive boxes . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps if the age-gap of eight years between them had been less … perhaps if she herself had stayed at home for a few years instead of finding separate lodgings as soon as she 'd finished her A levels and joined Grantham and Marsh as a junior copywriter … |
| 3 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 4 | When he switched the light on and dragged the bedclothes back , he saw that his image of them had been perfect . |
| 5 | She had had a few in her short life and none of them had been pleasant . |
| 6 | One of them had been unconscious for a while . |
| 7 | Most of them had been due to efforts on the spot by units of the Red Army . |
| 8 | If 13 of them had been nasty , Tit for Tat would n't have won . |
| 9 | The only thing that linked them was the embarrassing albatross of a marriage in whose death both of them had been guilty . |
| 10 | Philip of Swabia , meanwhile , was maintaining the illegality of the meeting on the grounds that there was a legitimate heir , that oaths had been taken to that heir by all the princes and that , furthermore , few of them had been present at Andernach . |
| 11 | She maintained that both of them had been innocent and that their trial had been unjust [ see also pp. 36905 ; 36987 ] . |
| 12 | Especially as I found one of them had been sick in the spare room . |
| 13 | But none of them had been interested enough to come up with an offer . |
| 14 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |
| 15 | One of them 's been two or three times , this was , I think this was her fourth time , so she went away to F Florida , away over to the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 16 | They were allowed to see it for one hour , before it was taken back , and none of them has been able to get hold of it since . |
| 17 | Suppose , for example , that up until today I have observed a large number of ravens under a wide variety of circumstances and have observed all of them to have been black and that , on that basis , I conclude , ‘ All ravens are black ’ . |
| 18 | The promotion prospects of the geologists were almost non-existent , some of them having been Temporary Acting Geologists for over 20 years with no pension rights . |
| 19 | ‘ And all of them have been successful . ’ |
| 20 | Few randomised controlled trials have been conducted using filtered blood , and most of them have been small , unblinded , and concerned with laboratory rather than clinical end points . |
| 21 | I am aware that the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues have promoted all sorts of proposals in recent years , and many of them have been contradictory . |
| 22 | Most of them have been short term . |
| 23 | And had his voice been able to cut through metal as it cut through the early morning air , then they would all of them have been free of the Cages in moments . |
| 24 | The documents are the longest surviving series of such records in Britain but a third of them have been unusable because of their delicate state . |
| 25 | Some of them have been empty for the 20 years since they were built , others have been empty for just a few years . |
| 26 | The women were badly injured and two of them have been unable to return to work . |
| 27 | Since 1968–70 there have been more strikes than in the fifties and sixties , and more of them have been unofficial . |
| 28 | I 've played a lot of these poker games in my time as a computer own , and none of them have been any cop ( especially bad was Maria Whittaker 's Christmas Box ) . |
| 29 | The boat 's heating is not working , the crew 's sleeping bags are damp and several of them have been seasick , but the verdict is unanimous : they are having the time of their loves . |
| 30 | Competition among them has been intense in the past decade as a result of the switch to reimbursement based on diagnostic related groups rather than historic costs , a difficult regulatory environment aimed at reducing short stay hospital capacity and at cost containment , and a much tougher climate for research funding . |