Example sentences of "[prep] they have [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of the well-established results which Morton ( 1969 ) used in his influential model of the lexicon , which suggests that words become finally recognised when sufficient " data " about them have been collected from the environment . |
| 2 | There were some plans in existence and he studied old maps by R. Casson and J. Berry , which had appeared last in 1757 before the copper plates for them had been taken over by Harrop . |
| 3 | These wadis are too long and , in many places , form too integrated a pattern for them to have been formed under present climatic conditions . |
| 4 | The bullets had followed each other too quickly from different angles for them to have been fired by the same person . |
| 5 | Fortunately , most of the figures who appear in this book meet that criterion or , if not , they were certainly notable enough for them to have been remembered . |
| 6 | might have also mentioned that the number of scholarships and the funds available for them have been increased by 50 per cent and 500 per cent respectively . |
| 7 | I am particularly encouraged by the references to better facilities for pedestrians and cyclists , and to see that routes for them have been incorporated into all the major development sites where appropriate — and indeed given some prominence in the site maps . |
| 8 | The first pre-retirement courses were held in the United States in 1949 , but it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that the need for them has been recognised in the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | The second edition of this guide to medicines for older people and those who help care for them has been published by Age Concern England . |
| 10 | Yet three years earlier , at the important siege of nearby Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte , the French had used thirty-two cannons , gunstones for them having been conveyed there in carts and by packhorse . |
| 11 | It would seem that everything between them has been ruined — but no , they decide to treat the day as if it had never been ; and when he has gone Emily picks up her goose-quill pen and again writes ‘ Dear Edmund ’ . |
| 12 | The objection therefore is that since power and property have separated , the legitimating link between them has been broken . |
| 13 | The validity of these tests , however , has been assessed by few and unconfirmed studies , in patients who were not taking NSAID , and direct comparison between them has been lacking . |
| 14 | Long service awards for trio of Terriers THREE part-time soldiers with nearly 70 years in uniform between them have been honoured for long service . |
| 15 | Once the elements in the topic framework and the interrelationships between them have been identified , the analyst has some basis for making judgements of relevance with regard to conversational contributions . |
| 16 | The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings . |
| 17 | Four of them had been taking non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) for a mean period of 10 ( range one to 18 ) months for arthritis and remarkably one of these had DU in spite of having pentagastrin fast achlorhydria due to pernicious anaemia . |
| 18 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 19 | Now , in a classic delaying action , they forced the royalists to surrender after a mere seven of them had been killed . |
| 20 | One of them had been watching him recently . |
| 21 | So far neither of them had been defeated . |
| 22 | All but two of them had been abused and I remember one girl saying to me , ‘ By the time I was nine I knew what it was all about . ’ |
| 23 | The various Lives had been written from a variety of standpoints , but he observed that the best of them had been inspired with hate — hate , not of Jesus , but of the ‘ Christ of dogma ’ . |
| 24 | Sheila burst in late , breathless from a hilarious encounter between a raw young policeman and a group of women night cleaners picketing a building from which two of them had been sacked . |
| 25 | Only two patients thought that they had not been told enough , even though one of them had been given the very detailed sheet . |
| 26 | Thirty of them had been drinking so heavily that they forgot to get off at Peterborough to catch their connection to Harwich . |
| 27 | Indeed , not only were his 29 League goals ( out of a total of 70 ) the major contribution towards Palace 's promotion to Division Two in 1920–21 , ( our first season in the Football League ) , but many of them had been scored with his head . |
| 28 | All of them had been trained by the School from the age of eight or nine , eight having made their debut at the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 29 | None of them had been trained in covert operations other than when dealing with criminals . |
| 30 | So many of them had been trained by her and trusted her friendship and judgements . |