Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] been [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't er , it was n't good to leave them about , you know what I mean and er oh er yes it 's been very important , if I might say so , certain things as I 've had been called upon to do and I 've been happy and proud to do it . |
| 2 | One had been given intramuscular ampicillin for a septic cord ; one had had a traumatic caesarean birth ; one had had a difficult birth with vacuum extraction and he also had a ventricular septal defect ; one had a heart murmur ; and one had been premature and in a special care unit with hypotonia and jaundice . |
| 3 | And there had been green and gold and scarlet dragons painted on every wall and woven into every silk hanging . |
| 4 | There are various exceptions erm and there have been two or three in recent years , but it therefore meant that they were fair game for saying anything so they were fair game for a very sensational headline because there was very little chance of recrimination . |
| 5 | It is now funded by the health authority under the normal joint finance arrangements and there have been one or two local disputes which I 'll come back to later on . |
| 6 | All monitors and TV sets give off high levels of electro-magnetic fields at all frequencies and there have been one or two studies that suggest these might be harmful . |
| 7 | He says that there 's a lot of speculation , and there have been one or two arrests , but there 's no evidence of large scale crime . |
| 8 | The disease progressed rapidly and there 's been little or no remission . ’ |
| 9 | And they had been plump and well-dressed . |
| 10 | F—in' red wine on the carpet , that was bad , white wine on the walls so you get like a nice green tinge and they 'd been sick and broken the toilet seat and they 'd shit in the toilet and not flush it , fags in the coffee cups , I do n't let them come round any more … ’ |
| 11 | New thinking in rural development planning in general has only been taken up piecemeal by conservation planners and commentators in the international literature and they have been idealistic and exhortative in tone . |
| 12 | Sally-Anne had met him at a party ; he had long been settled in England , and he had been impressed and amused by her fiery conversation and her obvious intelligence . |
| 13 | Perkin had listened more than he 'd talked , and he 'd been cunning and careful . |
| 14 | Mr David Cummings , general manager , said : ‘ We have never done anything on this scale , but everyone has been fantastic and our suppliers have stood by us . ’ |
| 15 | I thanked him , he saluted , and the two of them walked on My guard said that I was crazy ; I could have run into terrible trouble , but I had been lucky and now I had only to choose a beautiful new bicycle . |
| 16 | But she had been frightened and it made her angry with Albert . |
| 17 | They had advised her to have the baby adopted , told her she 'd not be able to earn a living for them both , but she 'd been willful and gone her own way . |
| 18 | ‘ But we have been responsible and admitted the difficulties we will face in introducing our programme because we believe we have a real chance . ’ |
| 19 | But there have been one or two things this year . ’ |
| 20 | This tended to affect the capital-intensive professions , such as medicine and engineering , in the form of regulation of capital spending and student numbers , rather more than the cheaper ones , but there have been direct or indirect consequences for fields such as nursing , teaching and social work as well . |
| 21 | Attempts had of course been made before 1513 to link taxation more directly to personal riches , but they had been unpopular and , in general , ineffective . |
| 22 | You may have made progress , you may have known times of happiness and fulfilment , but they have been few and far between . |
| 23 | But he had been young and in good condition . |
| 24 | But it had been close and the children had never taken liberties with the river again . |
| 25 | It was a very dowdy dress , and old , and it smelled of mothballs and , faintly , of years of perspiration soaked into the fabric , but it had been well and carefully preserved . |