Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [verb] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain has been denied this freedom because it has never had a truly commercial broadcasting environment . |
| 2 | She has been appointed this season after the Wordsworth Trust staged a six-day exhibition in Osaka last year . |
| 3 | The world 's highest peak has been scaled many times since Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first conquered it in 1953 . |
| 4 | Apart from re-investing in his own business Riddle has been buying industrial shares while the market is depressed , presumably on the assumption that there are better times ahead . |
| 5 | It seems strange that this phenomenon , so necessary both for social cohesion and for the development of real harmony between ourselves and our horses , has been given less attention than pecking order : a reflection , perhaps , on the observer more than on the observed . |
| 6 | He is a former partner of Gaffer Hexam 's , but Hexam repudiates him when he finds that Riderhood has been robbing live bodies as well as dead ones . |
| 7 | And the Sheikh 's dominance has been maintained this year as he heads the table with some £1.75m in prize money , half a million ahead of his older brother , Hamdan Al Maktoum , who owns Nashwan , with Sangster languishing in 10th place with a mere £250,000 or so in the kitty . |
| 8 | A Bosnian art gallery , which has been bombed nine times since the civil war started , has been recreated in Cheltenham . |
| 9 | Traditionally the practice has been to abandon old pits when it became uneconomic to go deeper , but to return to them when the price for clay improved or when a technical innovation made extraction cheaper . |
| 10 | One or another young kid has been watching this place since I left . |
| 11 | The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it . |
| 12 | A package of unpublished music manuscripts by one of the country 's most eminent composers of brass band music has been rediscovered fifty years after it was written … and as Clare Lafferty reports , its about to have its first performance . |
| 13 | For a decade now the developed world has been celebrating African music while altogether denying its otherness . |
| 14 | anyone who 's been drinking all afternoon if you want to er , wander across |
| 15 | The idea , one that 's been adopted many times since , was to ‘ camouflage ’ the door handle so it did n't interfere with the body lines . |
| 16 | It 's been banging all day because I ca n't be bothered to go out there and shut it . |