Example sentences of "been [noun] [noun] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The politics she had encountered had been trades councils and Young Socialist meetings ; the Americans wore beads , mumbled , talked about direct action . |
| 2 | Firstly , it is a family archive covering the period since the thirteenth century ; secondly , the dukes of Norfolk have been Earls Marshal and Hereditary Marshals of England for many centuries ; and finally , as the family has adhered to the old religion , many documents have an important bearing on English ( Roman ) Catholic history . |
| 3 | He had been deputy chairman and chairman-designate since November 1985 . |
| 4 | Apart from that early sexual encounter , which did not count as love , there had been Peter Datchett and two others . |
| 5 | English Estates had been in existence for some years , but its traditional role had been factory building and commercial development on green field sites with 5,000 factories and offices on 508 estates . |
| 6 | Yeah well I know that 's true erm and we 've been power fighting and that 's the problem |
| 7 | The most recent approaches have been language laboratories and computer-based instruction . |
| 8 | In the majority of studies the most frequently used drugs have been thiazide diuretics and beta-blocking agents . |