Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [been] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this is an edited multi-author volume , the text has been typeset and is of high quality . |
| 2 | Although the story has been long and widely recounted ( John Prebble 's heartbreaking book , Culloden , brings the event to life ) , nothing compares with walking the field , seeing the small cairns marking where clansmen fell , measuring the rides of the horse-troops . |
| 3 | Council officers say the vandalism has been consistent and meant the present exhibition Funny Energy had to be open for restricted hours only . |
| 4 | So far his progress has been encouraging and he is already taking a few steps with the aid of a frame . |
| 5 | There is no doubt tremendous strides have been made in certain sections of the North 's economy but that progress has been partial and there have also been many setbacks . |
| 6 | Taken in conjunction with what follows they show the development of UK practice , although they also illustrate that progress has been slow and uncertain , and that user education is still generally a peripheral service in most libraries . |
| 7 | Change has been piecemeal and largely incremental . |
| 8 | Our defence has been solid and we played with a lot of spirit against Kilmarnock and Dunfermline . |
| 9 | Shortly after the event , Stanley Peters said ‘ The response has been outstanding and we , as a company , welcomed the opportunity to meet families and show them the factory ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ The response has been tremendous and we see the success spreading to many other towns and villages . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The response has been tremendous and we see the success spreading to many other towns and villages , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The Government 's response has been inadequate and that is why I initiated the debate . |
| 13 | Response has been excellent and we are putting them to good use — please keep them coming ! |
| 14 | Past experience of implementing soil conservation programmes has been disappointing and the paper tries to identify the more important reasons . |
| 15 | This is the first year I 've put Lynda into the Giants , but her recent exposure has been terrific and I 'm sure will do wonders for this twins tale spotted with sex and violence with Auschwitz roots . |
| 16 | Because mature teeth are far less complex , biologically , than most tissues , restoration of their shape and function has been straightforward and David Watts discusses the use of certain polymers and composites for this purpose . |
| 17 | Gerald has been married and divorced 4 times . |
| 18 | Soon , thought Henry , feeling , as he often did , a sense of solidarity with chickens , they would label one with THIS FOWL HAS BEEN HAND-REARED AND TALKED TO NICELY . |
| 19 | Opposition has been muted and sporadic except from the farmers who have successfully extracted high levels of compensation for land taken over for Tunnel purposes . |
| 20 | Indeed it seems to me that the contribution to date of the voluntary sector to service provision in most sectors has been marginal and peripheral . |
| 21 | Loss of Exchequer revenue has been considerable and has not been offset by any gain in total expenditure on health care . |
| 22 | American policy on Afghanistan has been reactive and government spokesmen have been reluctant to define the permissible political bounds of the Afghan regime after a Soviet withdrawal . |
| 23 | Turnover has been high and several households have been rehoused in local authority stock after experiencing difficulties maintaining payments . |
| 24 | In the Third World the military dictatorship has been widespread and provides another example of the relative power of bureaucracy under specific capitalist conditions . |
| 25 | THROUGHOUT the history of art the nude study has been significant and compelling . |
| 26 | American research has been instructive and I survey this before moving to my own views . |
| 27 | LIBF director Brian Bradford said this week that demand for stands had been considerable and the fair was already close to being a sell-out . |
| 28 | On the field at Culloden , the last of the Boyd clan horse had been disarrayed and the strength reduced to footsoldiering . |
| 29 | And again she found herself thinking that maybe Jeff had been right and Guido was simply an insufferable bully , the type of man it would be all too easy to fall out with . |
| 30 | Dr Neil had been kind and friendly to her when she had served him breakfast . |