Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the period that I mentioned there have been substantial further job losses in the coal industry and some further job losses in the steel industry . |
| 2 | Sinn Fein councillor Vincent Kelly claimed there have been several attempts to pressurise Mr Fox into working for British Intelligence . |
| 3 | ‘ Since they arrived there have been thousands of deaths . |
| 4 | At the resumed inquest at Hereford Town Hall , Health and Safety Executive explosions expert Andrew Cox said the oil tank Michael Grant worked on had been full of highly inflammable oil vapour . |
| 5 | Since we started there have been five escapes for which we accept responsibility . |
| 6 | She had been propositioned at that last party by a sub-editor with bad breath , who seeing her maimed and brought down had been swift to seize the opportunity . |
| 7 | While he did not dispute that in many cases money had been levied that was twice what was necessary for satisfactory repair , and even then that the work carried out had been slovenly or even not done at all , the great laissez-faire economist had been convinced by the turnpikes that so far as public works " for facilitating commerce in general " were concerned , " the greater part may easily be so managed as to afford a particular revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense , without bringing any burden upon the general revenue of society " . |
| 8 | And he would n't let me go at nine o'clock if he thought I had n't have been knackered and ready to fall down you know . |