Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] [noun sg] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second change has been in share prices themselves : in the 1980s they soared . |
| 2 | [ For third congress in February 1986 see p. 34230 ; the second congress had been in 1980 — see p. 30817 — and the first in 1975 — see p. 27595 . |
| 3 | Once had been at the theatre , when she had walked into the foyer and received a thoroughly unpleasant jolt when she had seen him standing only yards away , and the second time had been at a party . |
| 4 | According to contemporary writers , and repeated regularly ever since then , Piper had already gained fame as the first European to have been behind the Great Wall of China . |
| 5 | The first psychiatrist had been on the National Health , but he was useless . |
| 6 | Unfortunately for the advertisers , the first battle has been over the least defensible product . |
| 7 | The first time had been in anger — the second time something very different . |
| 8 | The first move had been in his choice of the katana as the weapon of combat . |
| 9 | ( a ) How meaningful would the first statement have been to you without this additional information ? |
| 10 | The first meeting had been at York in 1831 ; thereafter the Association visited the university cities of Oxford , Cambridge , Edinburgh and Dublin , before in 1836 venturing to Bristol and subsequently to other large towns . |
| 11 | If the bees found the food by smell they would go to the nearest dish ; but , in fact they went to the original dish which the first bee had been to . |
| 12 | Again , all the dishes contained the same scented food , but the bees mainly went to the dish that the first bee had been to . |
| 13 | In other words , the introduction and extension of state-pension rights over the course of the twentieth century has been by far the most important mechanism for increasing the effective wealth of the poorer sections of the population . |
| 14 | The last year had been like a dream , a fairy tale ; but suddenly , as the cameras retreated and the curtains drew on another quiet Balmoral evening , with the Queen insisting on formal dress for dinner , as she does every night , the dream began to dissolve . |
| 15 | The last congress had been in 1985 . |
| 16 | It said : ’ The balance of evidence over the last month has been towards continued recession . |
| 17 | Indeed , the battle bus spirit in the last week has been at its most buoyant since Day One . |
| 18 | A fourth cherry had been in the slice the Councillor had just removed and eaten . |