Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [conj] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young lads who up to this point have had no real demands made on them by society , who have been spoiled and indulged by their mothers , who have followed their own inclinations entirely and have been tolerated in nearly everything , suddenly and incomprehensibly find that they are the subjects of a spiteful atrocity in which they are abused , assaulted , victimized , mutilated and sometimes threatened with death itself . |
| 2 | ‘ He has maintained his innocence throughout and has been fully vindicated by a jury who took only an hour and a half to find him not guilty . |
| 3 | Vee Clark has written to say she bought her first knitting machine from Julia 18 months ago and has been very happy to have her help on more than one occasion . |
| 4 | Derek Fletcher was arrested by police in the USA three months ago and has been kept in custody in Corpus Christi . |
| 5 | But there was a one day in which Frenchie Nick Nicholson erm brought all the tail-enders across and had been told the one thing he should n't do was be last he was thinking I 'm not last and behind you then he came in in front of him and he was last . |
| 6 | The unification of Yemen in May , six months earlier than had been expected , raised hopes of economic growth during the early 1990s . |
| 7 | They will welcome enormously the steps forward that have been made in the signing of the new declaration on racism and xenophobia , especially the penultimate paragraph , which states : ’ The European Council asks Ministers and the Commission to increase their effort to combat discrimination and xenophobia , and to strengthen the legal protection for third country nationals ’ . |
| 8 | He had come from Bangladesh about three months previously and had been in school about two months . |
| 9 | Peter had won three times already and had been unlucky not to make it a fourth title the year before . |
| 10 | I have a bid to make for additional assistance , and I suggest that there are three means by which we could help people without work more than has been possible in the past . |
| 11 | And environmental tidiness may cost the Pentagon more than had been planned . |
| 12 | Ma had known her Bible thoroughly and had been fond of quoting it . |
| 13 | No , it was Marguerite Bryant now and had been for over fifteen years . |
| 14 | Yet again England were indebted to Platt , who celebrated his 27th birthday just two days ago and has been restricted to the bench by an ankle injury . |
| 15 | Andrews cost Saints £200,000 when he joined from Celtic three years ago but has been restricted to just five appearances as understudy to Tim Flowers and now wants to return to his native Midlands . |
| 16 | Something had happened two years ago that had been traumatic enough to send Ana de Santis blind . |
| 17 | The scheme was launched 14 years ago and had been subject to two public enquiries , both of which recommended the building of a tunnel under Oxleas Wood , at an extra cost of £10 million . |
| 18 | He left his wife six years ago and has been divorced for three years . |
| 19 | Hound Tor is a deserted settlement in Manaton parish , high on the east side of Dartmoor , which was excavated some years ago and has been left open so that visitors can see it . |
| 20 | Cecilia Taylor first tried a Medau class about 19 years ago and has been ‘ hooked ’ on it ever since ; regularly taking part in displays , rallies and courses . |
| 21 | Not only is the Newton St. Loe pavement dated a good 30-40 years earlier than has been suggested above , the Withington mosaic is later than the former and earlier than the Barton Farm and Woodchester examples ( as an increasing elaboration of design is accepted as the criterion by which these developments are best understood ) . |
| 22 | They had left Eastover days earlier than had been expected . |
| 23 | Indeed , she had dined in the Hotel the night before and had been introduced to her local MP , Sir Ralph Grunte . |
| 24 | ORIGINALLY ON the German Rough Mix label and now sensibly picked up by Sheffield 's Warp label , this one 's been around for a while now and has been described as potentially the next Gat Decor . |
| 25 | The first woman governor , Miss Muriel Allen , retired a little while ago and has been succeeded by Mr. Roy Merricks . |
| 26 | provide opportunity for catharsis ie. the release of hostile feelings etc that have been , or may be , repressed otherwise . |
| 27 | The former Villa player sustained the injury in a European tie against Panathanikos recently and has been undergoing intensive treatment . |
| 28 | Ramsay knew her by repute only and had been looking forward to seeing her in person . |
| 29 | He was made redundant in March 1991 and received payments until returning to full-time work in July 1991 , but suffered a prolapsed disc a month later and has been off work since then . |
| 30 | They were also not curling their toes under as has been suggested by jack Stem and Randall Susman from the State University of New York at Stony Brook . |