Example sentences of "something [conj] have [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It bore a marked resemblance to something that had already been eaten once before . |
| 2 | The General Manager in Riyadh , in an excess of loyalty , had tried to protect Laing 's career by only insisting that every riyal be returned to the Ministry 's account , something that had now been done . |
| 3 | The adulation when it was all over was something that had hardly been seen before in England , even on momentous Ashes-winning occasions , and early in 1964 his efforts were rewarded with a knighthood , conferred by the Queen at Buckingham Palace . |
| 4 | Before the study began , few people knew about the dolphin , but the upsurge in public interest prompted many locals to claim that they were seeing more dolphins recently than ever before , whereas in fact they had probably just taken greater notice of something that had always been there . |
| 5 | My bed , fine , but my life … that was something that had always been untouchable , and , as far as I was concerned , always would be . |
| 6 | How dared he do this to her — how dared he rob her of something that had always been her life 's blood ? |
| 7 | No it 's funny unle I Mum says is it something that 's just been published this year you know , like if someone just published |
| 8 | V42bis ca n't compress something that has already been compressed . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman rightly said that it is a waste of the doctor 's time for him to turn his attention to something that has already been decided by someone else and merely to rubberstamp it . |
| 10 | Estimate , instead , the sheer physical task that is being contemplated : to build a ‘ Stansted at Stanley ’ would be to do something that has never been done before in the whole of history . |
| 11 | THE benefits of car leasing are something that have traditionally been considered the preserve of the business sector . |