Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [been] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collins ' form has been as stable as his club 's progress has been erratic this season and the player feels he should have represented his country more often than he has done . |
| 2 | The Pentagon is particulary worried that Iraqi anti-aircraft radar has been tracking allied planes . |
| 3 | This week the County Ground in Swindon has been open all hours … thirty six thousand tickets have been sold … goodness knows how many scarves and souvenirs … |
| 4 | Although promotion slipped from our grasp early on , our fight for survival over the last seven months has been real nail-biting stuff . |
| 5 | And nobody 's order books had been full this summer . |
| 6 | ( Perhaps the fact that the pubs had been open all day had something to do with that . ) |
| 7 | All the houses in the village had been small single-storey homes , perhaps only four square metres in area . |
| 8 | Her window had been wide all night and as she got out of bed she looked down on the dusty heads of trees where sparrows were fussing . |
| 9 | The extension of assured tenancies and the deregulation of rents have been important contributory factors in the increased use of the Business Expansion Scheme ( BES ) in the private rented sector . |
| 10 | SALES of nursing and residential care home in the south have been buoyant last year , according to national business agent , Christie and Co . |
| 11 | Concealed miniature radios and microphones which use wires other than telephone have been other bugging expedients . |
| 12 | But the main focus has been networked distributed computing , which does n't provide the same levels of performance or fault-resilience — and it 's in this aspect that the Sequent customers are most interested . |
| 13 | Do you know me and Ted have been married thirty year no not thirty , they 've been going out together thirty years |
| 14 | Previous patrol boats have been semi-rigid inflatable boats . |
| 15 | The oil minister , Gholamreza Aghazadeh , had declared the previous day that ‘ the US and its allies have been guiding certain oil producers in the ‘ conspiracy ’ to bring prices down' . |
| 16 | George and Helen have been married forty-five years . |
| 17 | However , the key factor has been domestic agricultural policies which protect indigenous agriculture for security or political reasons . |
| 18 | His scope has been modest this summer . |
| 19 | Ferguson 's phone has been hot all summer as opposition managers enquired about Hughes ' availability . |
| 20 | Fernando 's escaladun had been wonderful last night and not direct from the freezer . |
| 21 | While his predecessors had been ordinary royal humans . |
| 22 | The crew had been busy running cargo and vehicles on a waterborne Main Supply Route until just after midnight . |
| 23 | The most substantive changes have been considerable upward adjustments in prices paid to farmers , which have had a positive effect on output . |
| 24 | Australian test-tube teams have been freezing spare embryos since the programme began in 1981 — partly to avoid having to throw unwanted ones away — raising questions ranging from the ownership of the frozen embryo to who pays compensation if it is damaged . |
| 25 | Prime movers in the recent development have been hyperactive local Mick Ryan , ably assisted by Mark Radtke and John Holmes , who have produced a number of excellent and atmospheric pitches between them . |
| 26 | His work rate has been prodigious all season , and although he may not have the quickest service around , he must rate currently as the world 's no 1 scrum-half . |
| 27 | Trade had been bad that night so she thought he 'd be her last trick . |
| 28 | ‘ Two games against Barnsley have been tight this season and we must be on our guard . |
| 29 | Last year the London evening newspapers had been able several times to trot out their favourite banner headline . |
| 30 | He once sang , ‘ I keep getting younger/My life 's been funny that way ’ . |