Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [adj] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been thrilled with this work experience cos was Dave originally had these five days off taping and he said no , he said , you know you 're so tired , have a little rest we 'll go up I 'll go up on the train only to get to the Selhurst Park he 's got four or five train journeys |
| 2 | But I 've been stuck in this line for twenty years , and I reckon I 'll be stuck in it when I drop . ’ |
| 3 | But can you honestly say you 've been cold in this house ? |
| 4 | Very few children have been present during this week , many with their parents in the field . |
| 5 | He argues that ‘ the failure of both disputes revealed and reproduced the regional nature of management-labour relations in the industry ’ ( p. 35 ) , because ‘ miners ’ interpretations of the two disputes , and of the underlying arguments , are understood as embedded in the nature of collective social relations at work … the constitution of workplace relations has varied between coalfields and … variations in management and labour strategies have been central to this process ' ( p. 36 ) . |
| 6 | Two authors , at least , have been explicit on this subject . |
| 7 | GIVEN THAT Jacob 's Mouse have been involved in this rock ‘ n ’ roll malarkey in some form or another from an age when your hack still believed a bosom was Captain Birdseye 's right hand man on the SS Fishfinger , you would , perhaps — just like the kids of Bury St Edmunds — expect Sam , Jebb and Hugo to be precocious little shits with heads as big as Frank Sidebottom 's . |
| 8 | Four hundred and forty two SERC-funded students have been Involved In this examination of initial destinations . |
| 9 | Pipe habitually farms minor races — around 20 per cent of his 170 victories have been in selling and claiming races — and cutbacks have been severe in this area . |
| 10 | Some governing bodies have been sensitive to this danger and have established committees and structures involving teachers other than the teacher-governors . |
| 11 | The UK building societies , with well recognised " names " , have been active in this respect . |
| 12 | Research findings have been ambivalent in this area and no firm results have been shown . |
| 13 | ‘ The reason people have been concerned about this case for so long is that it is about far bigger issues . |
| 14 | In that context I have had to look at the definition of a specific issue order which is contained in section 8(1) of the Act and I know , from talking to those who have been concerned with this Act and are familiar with it , that they have no doubt at all as to what that definition means . |
| 15 | Political sociologists , in so far as they are not engaged in mainly descriptive and historical studies , now devote much of their effort either to analysing methodological problems of the kind which I outlined in the Introduction , or to reappraising and reinterpreting those nineteenth-century theories in which the ideas with which I have been concerned throughout this book — democracy , class , capitalism , socialism , the nation — were originally formulated and diffused . |
| 16 | Many people have been glad of this device over the years , which has saved them from death or serious injury . |
| 17 | Ranganathan 's fundamental facets have been important in this area . |
| 18 | Alex Bell , CastleCourt 's manager , said : ‘ We have been aware of this problem but are satisfied it does apply to us . |
| 19 | Brewers have been aware of this issue for centuries and have developed the practice of adding ‘ copper ’ hops early in the boil to provide bitterness and ‘ aroma ’ or ‘ late ’ hops towards the end of the boil for flavour . |