Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [prep] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 2 | ‘ Since its launch in 1989 , Drayton Asia 's investment performance has been significantly below that of Dragon , ’ the letter stated . |
| 3 | Eight key tasks are identified and work has been underway on these for some time . |
| 4 | If the SRs had achieved power , ‘ their actions would have been exactly like those of the Bolshevik Party . ’ |
| 5 | He 's supposed to have been there at half past nine ! |
| 6 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 7 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 8 | The BBC 's pre-war conception of the audience had been more like that of someone reading a book — a deliberate and solitary or individual habit , though it may be done in company — than of a collective social entity . |
| 9 | 50 officers are involved in the hunt for the man 's attackers ; scenes of crime and forensic experts have been here for most of the day . |