Example sentences of "has be [vb pp] all " in BNC.

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1 But a heroic act of rescue , splendidly documented , has been done all the same .
2 But already the decision has been given all party support in the House of Lords .
3 And McDonald 's UK president , Paul Preston , said : ‘ The restaurant has been packed all morning .
4 He has been pursued all year by race fan Newman and his Chicago business partner Carl Haas .
5 You give the impression of a man who has been accustomed all his life to wealth and privilege . ’
6 In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine .
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