Example sentences of "[vb base] been [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says there 've been stories about a buyer but it has n't happened yet . |
| 2 | I suppose we 've been rivals in the past , when I had my column on the Daily Mail and he had his on the Daily Express , but we 've been rivals in the friendliest of terms . |
| 3 | From time to time there have been limits to the amount that councils can spend per house ( the ‘ cost yardstick ’ ) and minimum standards have been established since the 1967 recommendations of the Parker Morris Committee . |
| 4 | I know it 's on the grapevine that there have been problems with the cars , but nothing 's ever been said officially . |
| 5 | In the last fifty years there have been problems for the fishermen and most have become unemployed or moved to other jobs . |
| 6 | While there have been problems in the interpretation of both Theft Acts the Law Commission in its Report , A Criminal Code for England & Wales , Law Com . |
| 7 | In recent years there have been records for every month as single birds have summered five or six times . |
| 8 | Second , in the same area , again there have been proposals for a cyclists ’ crossing of the traffic island to link Bristo Place to George Square , which should also become part of the scheme . |
| 9 | In the Planning Basis for Kent , published in 1948 , we read under Bridges , Halling : " From time to time there have been requests for a bridge at Halling to replace a very inadequate privately owned ferry service . |
| 10 | ‘ There have been approaches to the LEC on several occasions , but apart from an initial contribution of £1,000 , there has been no help ’ , Mr Orde said . |
| 11 | More recently there have been criticisms of the balance between these two areas and , on occasions , the GAO has been accused of neglecting its more traditional audit responsibilities in the area of financial compliance and regularity . |
| 12 | ‘ The audit report is signed by the firm and not the individual partner , and therefore we believe that a higher level of independence is not demonstrated where the same name appears on the audit report year on year , whether or not there have been changes in the composition of the audit team . ’ |
| 13 | As some departments within Glenpatrick works move onto shift working , there have been changes in the manufacturing activities resulting in the appointment of three shift managers . |
| 14 | Income inequalities among those in employment have been widened by inequitable wages policies , but even more important than wages policies as a means of promoting inequality have been changes in the tax system . |
| 15 | There have been changes in the block grant from central government ; rate-capping ; the abolition of the Greater London Council ; the forced introduction of greater tendering ; and changes in local authority finance . |
| 16 | If there have been changes in the journal coverage of the Science Citation Index over the period , such that some members of this limited set were not scanned prior to 1970 , say , then such earlier theses would show a lower frequency of citations in general , and the first citations of an author 's thesis could be missed , thus artificially increasing the average latency period . |
| 17 | Crimes of violence comprise less than 4 per cent of recorded crime , and while crimes of violence have risen rapidly in numbers in the post-war period there have been changes in the pattern of such offences . |
| 18 | The PFA refused to specify who was to blame for the red tape , though here have been differences in the past with nearby RAF Lyneham over airspace . |
| 19 | In more recent years there have been signs of a change in emphasis . |
| 20 | The hardest task of all may be that of people choosing to live alone who are either disabled or who have been members of an institution . |
| 21 | MOTORISTS who have been members of the RAC for 50 years or more are to receive special awards . |
| 22 | For successful students who possess at least two years ' relevant experience and have been members of the Institute for at least two years , the Banking Certificate leads to a qualification in its own right — the Cert . |
| 23 | there are many people and probably a few of you here tonight , who have been members of the Church for a long time . |
| 24 | It asks soldiers whether they , their friends or family members are or ever have been members of the IRA , INLA , IRSP , Sinn Fein , the Communist Party or the Connolly Youth Movement . |
| 25 | He and his wife , Brenda , have been members of the club for four years and play several times a week . |
| 26 | The Governing Body has decided that the income from this fund , which is used according to the By-Law to provide Edith Haynes Scholarships for either undergraduates or graduates of the College at the discretion of the Governing Body , will for the present be available to make grants in the first instance to mature graduates of the College who wish to continue or resume academic work , and are ineligible for State Studentships , or similar public support , by reason of age or inability to meet the requirement of residence in the U. K. Should no such applicant come forward , graduates of another university who are or have been members of the College reading for a further degree will be considered eligible . |
| 27 | As a result of the policy of police primacy , an increasing proportion of these have been members of the RUC and RUC Reserve . |
| 28 | Recently there have been reports of a concentration of Khmer Rouge forces in Kompong Speu , where the mountains come within 30 miles of Phnom Penh . |
| 29 | There have been snags over the asking price of £1million , a record for a goalkeeper . |
| 30 | Since then , there have been improvements in the standard and content of the courses concerned and by 1980–1 there were twenty-four of them in operation , recruiting 321 students . |