Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both split suddenly with clubs where they 'd been successful — Clough from Derby County in an almighty uproar , Dalglish from Liverpool in a still unsolved mystery . |
| 2 | He had been drinking all day with Slatter on 3 April , they had consumed some fourteen or fifteen quarts of ale , they had entered the Chequers , where they had been involved in an argument with two large men he now knew to be Hewett and Charlton . |
| 3 | They came to Bedford from the Luton Public Assistance Institution where they had been assistant master and assistant matron . |
| 4 | In 1973 Esquire magazine asked a number of famous people where they had been ten years earlier when they heard that John Kennedy was assassinated . |
| 5 | They lived on East Broadway where they had been able to afford property . |
| 6 | However , there are always attendant risks with taking people out of an environment where they have been successful and moving them , mid-career , into a completely different style and sector and trying to make them successful there . |
| 7 | Productivity-enhancing research and development in many lesser developed countries have often been harmful , where they have been accessible to farmers of those areas . |
| 8 | if it 's just like one exam or two exams that they 've failed or they 've been ill for or they 've missed or something they 're offered the opportunity to sit those in September then we have another exam board in September |
| 9 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 10 | Either they have been slobby , and it has eventually got depressing having to argue the case for owning a toothbrush ; or they have been scrupulous — in which case I have started longing for a bit more rough-and-readiness . |
| 11 | Weekly earnings in 1812 were only 16 per cent above their 1793 level , although they had been 25 per cent higher in 1808 . |
| 12 | Although they had been unable so far to be sure whether or not either neutrons or gamma rays were being emitted from the cell , if fusion was indeed occurring then there should be evidence within the cathode — helium or tritium should be present , though in very small quantities . |
| 13 | Dockers at Sharpness are expected to return to work on Monday , although they 've been reluctant to speculate on any future action . |
| 14 | ‘ They said there was little they could do about it , although they have been excellent and have stepped up their patrols . |
| 15 | Although they have been reluctant to disclose their plans they would like to tax people 's property and tax their income . |
| 16 | This gave rise to the resentment and hostility which Phizacklea and Miles regard as a characteristic form of modern , inner-city , working class white racism , although they have been mindful that the findings may only apply to particular sections of the class and in particular areas . |
| 17 | Although they have been quieter than their conservative counterparts , liberal Democrats , and especially the members of the black caucus , have been deeply unhappy at the way policy has developed during the spring . |
| 18 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 19 | The committee was over-optimistic , as we shall see , particularly as the expectations of the post-war generation of the deaf were considerably higher than they had been pre-war . |
| 20 | There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder . |
| 21 | Freud came to see , later , that human beings are not predisposed to admit that they are organisms which die and are destructive any more than they had been prepared to admit that young children , under five years of age , were sexual . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , though the currents of genuine popular opinion are now even more difficult to evaluate than they had been earlier , given the intensified persecution from 1942 onwards of even relatively trivial ‘ offences ’ of criticizing the regime or ‘ subverting ’ the wartime ordinances , every sign points towards the growth in this period of a ‘ silent majority ’ increasingly critical of the Nazi regime — even if the criticism was often only obliquely expressed — and ready to blame it for the mounting miseries of the war . |
| 23 | In this new environment women were more frequently allowed to inherit property than they had been earlier , though inevitably the more they were heiresses the more those men who had power over them — uncles or guardians — regarded them as marketable assets . |
| 24 | Wycliffe stayed chatting until after midnight and had to drive back in conditions which were , if anything , worse than they had been earlier . |
| 25 | A more unified European climate offers building and construction students significantly better career prospects than they have been privy to in recent UK history . |
| 26 | Brand told me that they 'd been friendly from way back and when I leaned on him a bit he admitted that they 'd had a thing going but it had been broken off two or three years ago . ’ |
| 27 | His family was so poor that they 'd been obliged to sell him . |
| 28 | Britain broke off diplomatic relations with the Syrians four years ago after allegations that they 'd been involved in trying to below up and Israeli airliner . |
| 29 | Yeah but the fact it 's come out is that they 've been honest . |
| 30 | Well in the sense that they 've been involved in it . |