Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] have been " in BNC.

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1 The defence which had been suspect all season became vulnerable and the forwards simply could not score goals , so poor Palace fell out of the bottom of Division Two .
2 He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington .
3 He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington .
4 The plaintiff may have made the most material changes in his position , and have induced the object of his affections to do the same , and have incurred pecuniary liabilities resulting in embarrassments , which would be in every sense a loss , if the income which had been promised should be withheld ; and if the promise was made in order to induce the parties to marry , the promise so made would be , in legal effect , a request to marry .
5 Apparently innocent of the opportunity which had been presented to them , they met in the Ravenhill Church and talked about what they should do and even hesitated about talking to the journalists waiting outside .
6 The parents were outraged ; the managers had got the opportunity they had been waiting for .
7 Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man .
8 " This could be the opportunity you 've been waiting for , " she said slowly , her eyes black shadows in her face .
9 What I 'd say to you is , do n't mess up and throw away the opportunity you 've been given , because if you do you 'll only have yourself to blame .
10 As Tory backbenchers cheered , the Chancellor said : ‘ British business now has the opportunity it has been looking for — to bring the country out of recession , to increase sales , expand production and invest for the future .
11 Pulling a little face , she carefully folded the tea-towel she 'd been using and laid it on the work surface .
12 Having given this example of structuring I perhaps need to make clear some of the terminology I have been using before looking at more examples .
13 Dishwasher salt removes the calcium which has been absorbed by the resin , so more calcium can be removed by the unit when the machine is used again .
14 The housewife who had been sleeping quietly after a Bank Holiday party when The Fox struck was identified by name , age and location .
15 Thus in one moment the veil which had been preventing me from seeing you as you are had been lifted .
16 He had been cultivating a strain of ‘ Sweet Dreams ’ , the variety which had been selected as Rose of the Year in 1988 .
17 They see a car coming from the direction they 've been told , and remember , it 's after one in the morning .
18 In the Galloway there has been strong discrimination against red , to the extent that red animals have been falsely maligned as ‘ poor doers ’ , and today the red varieties probably have Devon , South Devon , Red Poll or Shorthorn blood .
19 I do not pretend that these notions can do more than offer a way of thinking about the quantum world with some hope of doing justice both to the idiosyncrasy of its ways and also to the beautiful structure of the microworld which has been laid bare by the discoveries of elementary particle physics .
20 It is useful to have a record of the coverage which has been achieved by the ongoing media relations program .
21 BELVILLE : [ still unforgiving ] After the meanness you have been guilty of you have fallen very low with me .
22 By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad .
23 They were proof that the support we had been convinced was out there really did exist .
24 The Business Location Service is extremely grateful for the support it has been given and looks forward to even greater success with its partners in the year ahead .
25 The following morning you washed the shirt you 'd been wearing , the pullover and the trousers .
26 If he is lying , however , they deserved all the shit they 've been put through — and a lorry load more .
27 ‘ Look , Superintendent , he 's the shit who 's been screwing my wife .
28 Patients presenting with clinical evidence of gastrointestinal haemorrhage were endoscoped urgently , the source of bleeding identified , and appropriate treatment instituted including endoscopic sclerotherapy irrespective of which arm of the trial they had been randomised to .
29 He denied any guns had been involved in the raid although Mr Beaton had said earlier in the trial he had been told he would be shot if he tried anything stupid .
30 I mean , for ‘ O ’ level composition , certainly for the Board we 've been doing here , it was continuing a melody ; set pattern eight bars ; modulation ; answering phrase ; … harmonizing in four parts ; set chords … so it was never free composition .
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