Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] been [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She now bent forward towards him and said under her breath , ‘ I 've been married five years , Charles , and I 've been five times pregnant . |
| 2 | I should mention that Merlyn and I have been parliamentary colleagues and friends for nearly 20 years , since he was elected by the same people of south Leeds who had sent Hugh Gaitskell to the House of Commons . |
| 3 | What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on . |
| 4 | The A423 is one of the busiest roads in the region and there 've been many accidents . |
| 5 | He was probably mixed up in disposing of the pictures stolen in that big robbery from the Duke of Suffolk 's place , and there 've been other things . |
| 6 | Dr Kelleher had been working in close cooperation with Dr Laurent and there had been long consultations in the Pathology Lab . |
| 7 | She did not know what sort of oddness to imagine , but they had been a long time and there had been peculiar noises . |
| 8 | The invasion threats , which had seemed so immediate in 1948–49 , had subsided and there had been fewer incidents on the parallel . |
| 9 | Not until the anonymous informant had rung again on 4 August and there had been more calls to Lawrence , and they had finally made contact with John Lewis , did the Panel begin to find out what had really happened . |
| 10 | The spot was clearly a favourite one with the crew and there had been several men dozing there when Owen and Mahmoud had appeared . |
| 11 | Explosives were found in nearly all of the latter and there had been twenty fires in them between 1 November and 26 December 1921 . |
| 12 | Violence had broken out , and there had been anti-Catholic riots in Belfast . |
| 13 | In the modern world , democracy has often been perceived by liberals as a threat or potential threat to individual freedom , and there have been many warnings about the tyranny of the majority and the tyranny of public opinion . |
| 14 | We have been aware for some years that the relational model and relational database systems have not been able to represent some real-world concepts and activities , and there have been many papers and conferences devoted to the study of extensions and refinements to the original model of Codd ( 1970 ) . |
| 15 | This is only a temporary solution and there have been many attempts to organise more humane working systems . |
| 16 | The European Court has powers of judicial review over Commission decisions , and there have been many appeals to the Court against the decisions of DGIV . |
| 17 | And there have been two burglaries in Bicester ; last night a Ford truck was stolen and ten and a half thousand pounds ' worth of roofing was stolen from a roofing supply store . |
| 18 | The very idea of the ‘ comprador bourgeoisie , ’ central to the dependency approach , appears to have fallen into disuse in recent years and there have been various attempts to reconceptualize what it refers to . |
| 19 | erm I think in fact it would be better to ask Mr Bailey to explain what his concerns were erm I 'd just like to say first although initially it revolves around problems of drinking , I 'm looking at other issues of East Oxford , in that recently there 's been a great deal of concern about glue sniffing in sections there , and there have been various letters from residents in the local newspapers , and I think there 's a general level of problem for people living in East Oxford , and it 's not just that the people there want the streets cleaned up or whatever , they want something constructive and helpful to be done for people . |
| 20 | It is rumoured that the project is backed by an international mining consortium and there have been recent reports of attempts to enlist Yanomami from the area for military service . |
| 21 | Three key staff have resigned in the past year , and there have been frequent complaints that its establishment of 240 is too low . |
| 22 | And there have been unconfirmed reports that troops from Pakistan , Morocco and Tunisia refused to take part in active combat against Iraq . |
| 23 | There is a cuddly look about the new Scottish Office ministerial team and there have been unconfirmed sightings of the word ‘ consensus ’ . |
| 24 | In Islington , 127,000 people registered , and there have been 75,000 summonses and a staggering 70,000 liability orders . |
| 25 | These statements are all true and there have been astonishing changes of government policy in a remarkably short period . |
| 26 | Erm other places to watch out for in Baysford the work is continuing on David Lane and Southwick Street the crossing there is closed diversions are in place and there have been long delays in the area there so unless you have to I would n't . |
| 27 | And there have been similar demonstrations in Gloucestershire which has a similar vote next week . |
| 28 | The breed 's reclaimed hardiness makes it useful for extensive suckling systems and there have been successful attempts to produce crossbred suckler herds ( especially Longhorn x Welsh Black cows to Charolais bulls ) . |
| 29 | In 1919 the first of the Rubies landed in Brazil and there have been regular importations ever since . |
| 30 | The Association 's view was influenced by war-time scarcities , and there have been subsequent changes in the structure of the industry . |