Example sentences of "[subord] they have 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 | Weekly earnings in 1812 were only 16 per cent above their 1793 level , although they had been 25 per cent higher in 1808 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Dockers at Sharpness are expected to return to work on Monday , although they 've been reluctant to speculate on any future action . |
| 11 | ‘ They said there was little they could do about it , although they have been excellent and have stepped up their patrols . |
| 12 | Although they have been reluctant to disclose their plans they would like to tax people 's property and tax their income . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Wycliffe stayed chatting until after midnight and had to drive back in conditions which were , if anything , worse than they had been earlier . |
| 22 | A more unified European climate offers building and construction students significantly better career prospects than they have been privy to in recent UK history . |
| 23 | They knew from their own and others ' research that there was a diminishing prospect for children returning home once they had been long in care . |
| 24 | Well do do n't look as if they 've been used does it ? |
| 25 | And if they 've been malnourished since they were kids , they 're often slow in learning and remembering . |
| 26 | Oh all of my stuff has been up in the loft it 's like you say , I mean if they 've been double wrapped and everything and you wash them |
| 27 | No real problems if they 've been sensible with their money . |
| 28 | ‘ But then I 'd have been worried if they 'd been lethargic , so you ca n't have it all ways ! ’ |
| 29 | Would that apply if they 'd been independent but gone back into it ? |
| 30 | I asked , wondering if they 'd been angry on behalf of Ban Bhāi because Chola and the other women had n't waited for his permission , or because they 'd cheated , sneaking out first and grabbing all the pine-needles at the edge of the forest without having to climb at all . |