Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Derek Fletcher was arrested by police in the USA three months ago and has been kept in custody in Corpus Christi . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The unification of Yemen in May , six months earlier than had been expected , raised hopes of economic growth during the early 1990s . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | He had come from Bangladesh about three months previously and had been in school about two months . |
| 8 | Peter had won three times already and had been unlucky not to make it a fourth title the year before . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Something had happened two years ago that had been traumatic enough to send Ana de Santis blind . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He left his wife six years ago and has been divorced for three years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | They had left Eastover days earlier than had been expected . |
| 18 | provide opportunity for catharsis ie. the release of hostile feelings etc that have been , or may be , repressed otherwise . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | some notes here that have been here all , all the vacation , I think they 're yours are n't they ? |
| 21 | David McKay had lived three cottages up and had been friends with their Pet . |
| 22 | ‘ I have made a lot of good friends here and have been very warmly welcomed by a lot of people . |
| 23 | Oh yes , I 'd like to erm er concur on what Linda just said about options , I do n't think we should give erm raffle tickets away as has been suggested . |
| 24 | The figures represented an extraordinary proportion by historical standards ( some 10 times higher than the estimated percentage of US friendly fire casualties sustained in any other 20th century war ) , and were three times higher than had been previously admitted . |
| 25 | On average , therefore , the incidence of head lice in the urban child was about three times higher than had been recorded by school medical officers before the war . |
| 26 | The theological concepts contained in these phrases are weighty ones indeed and have been the subject of fervent discussion for centuries . |
| 27 | As well as those mentioned , there are others too that have been domesticated over the centuries providing food , clothing and transportation . |