Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should have been no problem as she was a swimming champion of the South London Schools and had been in excellent health . |
| 2 | Even more importantly , Maisie did n't like chicken , especially free-range , corn-fed , humanely killed chicken that had been through Jungian analysis . |
| 3 | Lower School was opposite the Chapel and here , under the dark oaken beams and arches , I was taught in a classroom that had been in continuous use as such since 1443 . |
| 4 | These limitation terms were incorporated in all contracts between seedsmen and farmers and had been for many years . |
| 5 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 6 | For instance , the single person 's National Insurance retirement pension in 1990 is worth 26 per cent more than unemployment benefit , whereas back in 1972 they were paid at the same rate and had been for most of the period since 1948 . |
| 7 | He was their paying guest and had been since that afternoon seven years ago when he had tracked Rachel Gebler down to her home in this seaside suburb close to the famous swimming beaches . |
| 8 | So the Dimbleby company turned to TBF ( Printers ) Ltd , which was itself a company closely associated with ( same shareholdings , same management ) T. Bailey Forman Ltd , with whom the NUJ was engaged in a trade dispute and had been since 1979 . |