Example sentences of "been [verb] other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that the Government has not also been pursuing other policies , such as the wider spread of home ownership , that have been beneficial to many working-class people , but the approach has been implemented in a way that has isolated the underclass still further . |
| 2 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 3 | But for many people , the slide into drug use has been to escape other problems — poor living conditions , no real job prospects and broken relationships at home which all lead to feelings of hopelessness and despair . |
| 4 | But if some of our constituents had been offered other options , they would not have chosen residential or nursing care . |
| 5 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes … but recently he 's been stealing other things from the house , too … ’ |
| 7 | The company has also been rethinking other aspects of library management . |
| 8 | But more recently banks have been providing other forms of merger funding-'mezzanine debt' , which does not rate as highly in terms of claims against the company 's assets , but provides additional financial resources . |
| 9 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 10 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 11 | Andy Boyack , from the Rail Maritime and Transport Union , said : ‘ The lads have all been allocated other jobs within the normal maintenance sections . ’ |
| 12 | That would only be necessary if the troops had been requisitioning other people 's equipment . |
| 13 | That would only have been necessary had the troops been requisitioning other people 's equipment , rather than turning out with their own ambulances . |
| 14 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 15 | Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton ! |
| 16 | They have been pestering other UN agencies , embassies and local traders , so far without success . |
| 17 | It may seem risky to start investing so much time and effort to obtain a better quality of life for a person at the margin of coping , but once the framework of social care planning has been established other aspects of social work and health service provision can be woven in . |