Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth noting that although the product is only just released commercially I have been using an ‘ engineering ’ version on the PC for some two months while the actual review tests were done on a genuine US release version . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I really do think that there is a degree of inconsistency in compelling a Gothic architect to erect a classical building — and so I have been thinking of appointing you a coadjutor , who would in fact make the design ! |
| 5 | Or so I have been led to understand . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I AM a handsome ( so I have been told ) 40-year-old man . |
| 8 | So you have been taught to read ? ’ |
| 9 | However much you have been told , you may still come across problems when you first join a Home . |
| 10 | So we have been watching a battle between rival establishments for control of the UK . |
| 11 | development of dictionaries and the use , the use of English so we have been assured in , that , that , anything we say will be divorced from |
| 12 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
| 13 | By 8am they have been joined by over 50 more , and at least 80 vehicles . |
| 14 | Perhaps they have been driven out of the country and gone abroad because extra conditions have been imposed here . |
| 15 | Perhaps they have been finding our simulated version of you know , to be there early , and to be there late , and sometimes be there Saturday and Sunday as well . |
| 16 | so they have been considered . |
| 17 | Finally I have been given a gearbox with the number 26107266 on top , 22 stamped on the right between gearbox and transfer box and Marshall 219467 on the side of the transfer box . |
| 18 | ‘ I may not be of your persuasion but tonight I have been persuaded that the world is reaching a turning-point in its history and that the ancient biblical promise to your people is about to be redeemed . |
| 19 | Physically I have been pushed harder , made to ski faster and longer than ever before . |
| 20 | For I am writing this on Saturday evening , and already I have been blooded . |
| 21 | Already I have been approached by a leading soft drinks manufacturer to host the world mountain skateboarding championships down a terrifying course on Sgurr Alasdair . |
| 22 | Lately I have been studying the paintings of an abstract expressionist named Diebenkorn . |
| 23 | Lately I have been studying the paintings of an abstract expressionist named Diebenkorn . |
| 24 | But I wish it had n't been tonight , for tonight we have been invited to Gemma 's house for supper . |
| 25 | Thus they have been re-encoded into long-term memory and this gives rise to the primacy effect . |
| 26 | ‘ I am disappointed for the crowd because generally they have been treated to some good football here and all our performance lacked was some goals . |
| 27 | Mr Fallon fired back : ‘ Education in this country is run by the councils and largely they have been running it very badly . |
| 28 | Thus you and the employee may jointly search for standards which are mutually acceptable which do not lead to hours of argument about whether or not they have been achieved . |
| 29 | Many educationists , administrators and teachers , especially those of a technocratic or managerial frame of mind , continue to argue that evaluation must be concerned with establishing educational objectives and then systematically monitoring , often by statistical methods , whether or not they have been achieved . |
| 30 | Justice , on the contrary , is concerned with the decisions that the standing political institutions , whether or not they have been chosen fairly , ought to make . |