Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Supreme Court on March 4 formally recognized that 61 workers sentenced in December 1987 for their role in the Brasov riots had been political prisoners of the former Communist regime . |
| 2 | To justify his view that there are ways in which things might have been different while at the same time avoiding voluntarism , Poulantzas argues that there are two sources of valid counterfactuals . |
| 3 | It could well be that some of the summit surfaces of the Hercynian blocks are Eogene pediplains , while the weathering responsible for the formation of tors may have been tropical weathering of the same date . |
| 4 | AFTER a total of 36 years ' service in the nuclear industry — during which she has been personal secretary to no fewer than three chairmen — Dorothy Ashurst has retired . |
| 5 | If there has been previous trading between the same parties it may be possible to establish that the terms are incorporated by a course of dealing . |
| 6 | There have been dramatic declines of a few bird species as a result of using some chemicals , and perhaps more subtle and long-term changes as a result of the simplification of the plant community of farmland arising from cropping changes and the widespread use of increasingly sophisticated herbicides . |