Example sentences of "them have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were allowed to see it for one hour , before it was taken back , and none of them has been able to get hold of it since . |
| 2 | Competition among them has been intense in the past decade as a result of the switch to reimbursement based on diagnostic related groups rather than historic costs , a difficult regulatory environment aimed at reducing short stay hospital capacity and at cost containment , and a much tougher climate for research funding . |
| 3 | It will be necessary to confirm that all restrictions have been observed and if they have not been observed , to confirm that consent to vary or discharge them has been forthcoming . |
| 4 | The promotion prospects of the geologists were almost non-existent , some of them having been Temporary Acting Geologists for over 20 years with no pension rights . |
| 5 | Suppose , for example , that up until today I have observed a large number of ravens under a wide variety of circumstances and have observed all of them to have been black and that , on that basis , I conclude , ‘ All ravens are black ’ . |
| 6 | The directors , who met weekly , acted as a house committee , and the minutes of their meetings show them to have been diligent in pursuing the objectives set out in the preamble to the Act of Parliament which had brought them into existence . |
| 7 | She had had a few in her short life and none of them had been pleasant . |
| 8 | If 13 of them had been nasty , Tit for Tat would n't have won . |
| 9 | When he switched the light on and dragged the bedclothes back , he saw that his image of them had been perfect . |
| 10 | The only thing that linked them was the embarrassing albatross of a marriage in whose death both of them had been guilty . |
| 11 | Most of them had been due to efforts on the spot by units of the Red Army . |
| 12 | She maintained that both of them had been innocent and that their trial had been unjust [ see also pp. 36905 ; 36987 ] . |
| 13 | One of them had been unconscious for a while . |
| 14 | Philip of Swabia , meanwhile , was maintaining the illegality of the meeting on the grounds that there was a legitimate heir , that oaths had been taken to that heir by all the princes and that , furthermore , few of them had been present at Andernach . |
| 15 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 16 | Perhaps if the age-gap of eight years between them had been less … perhaps if she herself had stayed at home for a few years instead of finding separate lodgings as soon as she 'd finished her A levels and joined Grantham and Marsh as a junior copywriter … |
| 17 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |
| 18 | Especially as I found one of them had been sick in the spare room . |
| 19 | But none of them had been interested enough to come up with an offer . |
| 20 | Often , however , the facilities provided for them have been lamentable , not merely basic but squalid — safety and comfort has not been regarded as a priority — a prevailing stench of stewed onions — in stark contrast to the different world , only yards away , in the board room and the lucrative executive boxes . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And all of them have been successful . ’ |
| 22 | Few randomised controlled trials have been conducted using filtered blood , and most of them have been small , unblinded , and concerned with laboratory rather than clinical end points . |
| 23 | I am aware that the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues have promoted all sorts of proposals in recent years , and many of them have been contradictory . |
| 24 | Most of them have been short term . |
| 25 | Since 1968–70 there have been more strikes than in the fifties and sixties , and more of them have been unofficial . |
| 26 | The women were badly injured and two of them have been unable to return to work . |
| 27 | And had his voice been able to cut through metal as it cut through the early morning air , then they would all of them have been free of the Cages in moments . |
| 28 | I 've played a lot of these poker games in my time as a computer own , and none of them have been any cop ( especially bad was Maria Whittaker 's Christmas Box ) . |
| 29 | Some of them have been empty for the 20 years since they were built , others have been empty for just a few years . |
| 30 | The boat 's heating is not working , the crew 's sleeping bags are damp and several of them have been seasick , but the verdict is unanimous : they are having the time of their loves . |