Example sentences of "[pron] they have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the sixth scene those poor French wretches on the raft were represented in very much the same posture as that in which they had been first delineated by Monsieur Jerricault . |
| 2 | It would be an ironical stroke if investigations into the affair resulted not in the discovery of those happenings in which they had been guilty but only in those where they had been blameless . |
| 3 | Figure 3.4 shows the results of an experiment by Channell and Hall ( 1983 ) in which rats received appetitive conditioning with a light CS — some subjects in a context to which they had been pre-exposed , others in a novel context , differing in its smell and the level of a background noise from that with which they were familiar . |
| 4 | In some cases , particularly the non.engineering companies , the extent to which they had been able to shape these plans as opposed merely to sanction them was very limited indeed . |
| 5 | Part of the art of curriculum development — for it is , indeed , an art and not a science — is to gauge the extent to which teachers are secure enough to forsake the safety and familiarity of the categories into which they have been accustomed to divide learning . |
| 6 | Or they were the wings of that sweet-faced Gabriel who appears in so many pictures , whose scarlet plumes brush the ceiling of the bedroom in which he has alighted ; whose shadow fills the whole of the bedroom wall , whose robes cover half the bedroom carpet and whose single , beckoning finger silences the virgins of history , making them forget the books which they have been surprised reading , and sends them sinking to their knees . |
| 7 | With great difficulty I obtained a copy of this document and while it stated that ‘ public servants should not reveal the opinions and attitudes of colleagues as to the government business with which they have been concerned ’ , another section said quite clearly that a reasonable timescale for a public servant 's silence would be ‘ fifteen years or for the service life of the adviser , whichever is the longer ’ . |
| 8 | It is also part of two people who love each other and is ultimately something they have been able to create together . |
| 9 | ‘ They have been working on the driving maul yet it 's not something they have been renowned for in the past . ’ |
| 10 | More importantly They were also recruiting persons whom they had been obliged to make redundant in the face of earlier downturns and who were fully conversant with their own particular operations . |
| 11 | It later emerged that they had loaded crude here for third parties to whom they had been chartered-out . |
| 12 | But it could also mean that erm they were getti that it they had been successful in getting taxation from what they 'd done since the beginning of cos they felt they could go even further . |
| 13 | Because er it 's marvellous what they 've been able to do . |
| 14 | Shipowners were eventually compelled to concede to the force of circumstances what they had been unwilling to concede either to reason or to industrial muscle . |
| 15 | People live in tents , and customs are so different from what they have been used to , that I really wonder how they reconcile themselves to their new mode of life . |
| 16 | I did wonder at first whether or not they realized what they were taking on because Baldersdale is another world compared to what they have been accustomed to — very different indeed . |
| 17 | As people evaluate and celebrate the successes of their actions , they will identify what they 've gained and what they have been unable to attain through the particular action . |
| 18 | This helps them to produce work substantially more creative and thoughtful than what they have been able to do before . |
| 19 | Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all . |