Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] have been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ornithologically nothing has been gained from these changes in habitat on which the Sussex populations of some species largely depend . |
| 2 | Literally nothing has been overlooked ! |
| 3 | We do n't even discriminate against those who send in their entries in their own handwriting , however much I have been urged to do so by the typesetters . |
| 4 | Naturally I had been invited . |
| 5 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 6 | Perhaps I 've been infected by those damned journalists . ’ |
| 7 | But perhaps I 've been misinformed , like , for I understand you do n't read the Bible . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps , I only say perhaps , I promise nothing , ’ he said , throwing his purse carelessly from one hand to another , ‘ perhaps I have been told to give you a present when you lose your apprentice . ’ |
| 9 | Or so I had been told . |
| 10 | She shows some talent , or so I 've been told . |
| 11 | ‘ Or so I 've been told . ’ |
| 12 | It 's just the way they roll the curler on so I 've been told but erm whether it 's simple as that or not I do n't know . |
| 13 | So I 've been left with a load of tapes , batteries . |
| 14 | We 've gone back quickly so I 've been informed that build that 's definite starting on the twentieth of March . |
| 15 | so I 've been advised to stop that , hence it 's on the agenda . |
| 16 | Or so I have been led to understand . |
| 17 | So it was minuted in a sort of staff student consultative group last year , so I have been requested to confine it in some measure to a single text . |
| 18 | I AM a handsome ( so I have been told ) 40-year-old man . |
| 19 | Obviously someone 's been killed , but I do n't know any more than that . |
| 20 | Thus in the light of much which has been surveyed here , it is impossible to view overmanning — the bane of British industry — as mainly if not wholly the consequence of union power . |
| 21 | It will re-introduce some lorries onto the A ten eighty eight , but only about thirty per day compared with the six hundred or so which have been removed as a result of a current experiment . |
| 22 | But then the moon slid behind a cloud and the images vanished and Fenella thought that perhaps she had been mistaken . |
| 23 | Perhaps she had been dropped onto his path on purpose . |
| 24 | She left the surgery clutching Lizzie 's collar ; in the space of a few minutes it was all she had been left with , apart from memories . |
| 25 | As soon as Honor was old enough she had been dragooned into helping with the housework , preparing meals if cook were ill , as well as acting as her mother 's companion . |
| 26 | A slight chill the day after the sale had delayed her journey to London and so she had been forced to leave Summer Lodge with her few possessions in a bag and watch as the cab carried her from the large estate on the hill to the cramped rooms of the house in Chapel Street . |
| 27 | Every now and again — or so she 'd been told — the owners would call in the books . |
| 28 | So you 've been appointed Chairman ! |
| 29 | So you 've been robbed , raped and swindled , the question is were you asking for it ? and what are you going to do about it now ? |
| 30 | So you 've been demoted to post-boy ? ’ |