Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt a returning surge of anger — after all that had been said , did he really think she would sleep with him ? |
| 2 | The ultimate source for much that has been discussed must certainly be Pearl , with its story of the ( failed ) escape from mortality , its heavily traditional phrasing , and its fantastically complex metrical scheme , of twelve-line cross-rhymed stanzas with alliteration , assonance , syntax-variation and ( even Tolkien did not attempt this ) stanza-linking and refrains.ii However the Pearl tradition did not last till Shakespeare and Milton and the Romantics , who are accordingly and to that extent impoverished . |
| 3 | These two cone types are present in almost equal numbers , and not in the ratio of 2:1 that has been postulated for the human fovea . |
| 4 | She was an Irish Catholic woman of twenty-eight and had been married for nearly two years . |
| 5 | We have referred earlier to a third interpretation of normalisation which we see as being in line with the spirit of much that has been written , particularly in the earlier days . |
| 6 | As far as I am aware , this theory has found very little formal or scholarly expression , although it lies below the surface of much that has been informally expressed by directors of English ensembles and by others , both in conversation and in the various kinds of writing generated by the commercial music business . |
| 7 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
| 8 | Erika felt goose-pimples on her arms and the thought crossed her mind that , despite all that had been said to her about courage , perhaps she was n't really cut out for stardom , after all . |
| 9 | To one correspondent , Elia Diodati , he described his book as a most ample confirmation of the Copernican system by showing the nullity of all that had been brought by Tycho and others to the contrary . ’ |
| 10 | With an almost unanimous vote at its 40th congress in Geneva , the party said that the word " communism " was being dropped because of all that had been done in its name . |
| 11 | The club is one of many that has been made unplayable by the winter weather |
| 12 | A similar price is expected for Cezanne 's ‘ Still life with apples ’ from the early 1890s which was last sold at auction at the Goldschmidt sale of 1958 and has been consigned for sale by a European collector . |
| 13 | However , we were not able to know the outcome of those that had been tried ( which probably had a high proportion of not guilty pleas , this being the likely explanation for the delayed return of at least some of the files ) , so our data were , to this extent , incomplete . |
| 14 | Whether the production work sharing is something that is still to be decided er at the start of that phase but on the equipment , we were er originally entitled to thirty three percent of the common equipment er when we last gave evidence to the committee the U K work share for equipment stood at some thirty six percent of those that had been selected at that time . |
| 15 | In the remainder of this chapter we deal with five of those that have been put forward by those who give general assent to his radical perspective . |
| 16 | The flesh itself ranges from the blood red of the arriviste joint to the dull browny-purple bloom of those that have been there for the full three weeks . |
| 17 | Here are some of those that have been raised by various scientists . |
| 18 | One of the first initiatives of the new regime was British Deaf Awareness Week ( BDA Week ) which was first mounted in the autumn of 1982 and has been organised by Bob Peckford annually ever since . |
| 19 | He observed that the protesters did not enjoy the rights of common that had been affected , and on this basis he decided to modify the by-laws so that they could continue to apply to all the world except the commoners themselves . |
| 20 | She started ‘ working ’ at the age of 14 and has been on the streets for five years . |
| 21 | Admiral Mountbatten and Professor Zuckerman had visited the United States in the autumn of 1959 and had been shown the massive underground silos of the Titan intercontinental ballistic missiles , and had concluded , quite rightly , that Britain had neither the resources nor the need to enter the land-based ICBM league . |
| 22 | Although more tension may be applied to the lower posterior wall of the reservoir than to the anterior wall during construction , one would expect to show greater differences in scores for these sites in relatively recently constructed reservoirs compared with those that had been in situ for several years , and the pathological changes would also be expected to be more like those of mucosal ischaemia . |
| 23 | Roses in the second category — including those that have been repeated flowering well into autumn — are pruned towards the end of the winter dormancy period when the sap begins to move , and the axillary growth buds begin to swell . |
| 24 | Yes but then thinking about those that have been running for some time . |
| 25 | For those that have been put off by the laborious nature of the program 's drawing method the new freehand and auto trace tools offer a quick and easy method of generating high quality artwork from scanned or existing material . |
| 26 | Every two months a list of er er assignments that comes round er comes round to the sales execs for those that have been fully proofed . |
| 27 | It was a time when the whole underground culture was at its height and I was very much involved in that and had been since early ‘ 67 . |
| 28 | Vu Oanh , 67 , and Le Phuoc Tho , 64 , were both elected to the secretariat in 1986 and had been in charge of mass mobilization and agriculture , respectively ; Pham Van Kai , 58 , the Soviet-trained Chair of the State Commission for Planning , was one of five southerners in the new politburo and a former mayor of Ho Chi Minh City ; Bui Thien Ngo , 62 , was Permanent Vice-Minister of the Interior ; Nong Duc Manh , 51 , a member of the Tay ethnic group and the first minority leader to be elected to the politburo , was head of the central committee 's commission for nationalities ; Pham The Duyet , 55 , was secretary of the Hanoi party committee and a former trade union leader ; Nguyen Duc Binh , 64 , was director of the Nguyen Duc Binh Institute for training party cadres ; Vo Tran Chi , 64 , was secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City party committee . |
| 29 | West Lodge in Albert Park , designed by C J Adams , who designed the now demolished Royal Exchange in Albert Road , was built in 1866 but has been empty since 1979 . |
| 30 | You will no doubt be familiar with the Tesco Healthy Eating campaign which started in 1985 and has been a major success . |