Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [been] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Vadinamia has its own ultra-tight security that has been frustrating spies for a long time . |
| 2 | A COLLECTION of unusual antiques that has been 30 years in the making will go under the hammer this weekend . |
| 3 | As a result of the ‘ literate mentality ’ that these institutions helped to form in England , and to which Lyons and fellow academics now subscribe , later historians , looking back to records of eleventh century England , tended to discard medallions , seals and other material objects that had been major criteria of validation in the oral culture of that period . |
| 4 | Have n't talked since that marvellous Bassanio you did at the Vic ’ — that had been fifteen years before — ‘ lovely performance . ’ |
| 5 | But my experience is also , if we 'd bought the books that had been printed neighbours in the first place , no one would have noticed the difference . |
| 6 | All that had been two months ago . |
| 7 | If it feels like cotton , wears like polyester and holds color like cotton , it must be — Tencel , the new Courtaulds fibre that 's been 10 years and $200 million in the making … |
| 8 | Beattie was a senior foreman and had been twenty years with his company . |
| 9 | Nowhere do you mention the several hundred thousand Arabs ( Muslims , Christians ) who carry Israeli passports and have been second-class citizens for the past 45 years . |
| 10 | Captain Sturt was the great explorer who had discovered the Murray River , and have been some years in New South Wales before coming to Adelaide , where he was Colonial Secretary . |
| 11 | In a similar way , as we shall find later , although the widowed and still married give similar pictures of the practical division of roles in their married lives , the widowed tend to interpret these apparently similar marriages differently , remembering themselves as having been closer couples than do those who are still married . |