Example sentences of "been [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that those centuries had been times of uninterrupted peace . |
| 2 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 3 | Many of these have also been authorities with substantial areas of inner-urban deprivation within their boundaries . |
| 4 | ‘ There have been disappearances like this before . ’ |
| 5 | Over the past 40 years , there have been shifts in nuclear strategy and changes in technology and in the appreciation of the perceived threat . |
| 6 | As recently as 1985 , there had been signs of greater even-handedness on the part of the RUC , reflected in more frequent prosecutions of Protestants for ‘ insurgency offences ’ . |
| 7 | Even in the ‘ feminine ’ arts , however , women have been subject to more subtle pressures : arts , it is believed , are the domain of ‘ feminine ’ men , not women , and there have been attempts in recent years to render the arts more ‘ masculine ’ . |
| 8 | Fortunately , over the past few years there have been attempts by social services and local authorities to review the value of care for young people . |
| 9 | First , there have been attempts by social scientists to communicate with biologists . |
| 10 | The story was that there had once been houses on each side of the road but a century or so ago , those on the west had been demolished to add to the parkland . |
| 11 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 12 | As already noted there have been calls for national statements to encourage central and local government to develop sensitive and appropriate family and child care policies , and good child care service and practice . |
| 13 | There has been bloodshed in other communities . |
| 14 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 15 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 16 | On the supply side , there had been underinvestment in many areas of primary production for some years . |
| 17 | Gastrointestinal involvement by amyloid has been reported in dialysis patients , and there have been cases of intestinal infarction associated with massive amyloid deposits in the muscle layers of the bowel . |
| 18 | There have also been cases of deliberate neglect of property in order to force tenants out of the building . |
| 19 | Sir Edmund found there had been cases of physical ill-treatment such as wall-standing , hooding , noise , deprivation of sleep , and diets of bread and water . |
| 20 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |
| 21 | The independent republic of Honduras had been created a year previously , in 1838 , having once been part of Spanish America ; its fertile coastal plains surround a mountainous interior , rich in forests , and it just manages to have a 40-mile strip of southern coastline on the Pacific to complement its much longer Caribbean seaboard . |
| 22 | There was some speculation that the action had been part of ongoing Israeli efforts to secure the release of servicemen missing in Lebanon . |
| 23 | It would be very wise if the Left advocated the policy of land-value taxation , which has been part of Liberal policy this century . |
| 24 | Ever since the 1930s , when tourists in large numbers began visiting the American Southwest , counterfeit Indian artifacts have been part of that market . |
| 25 | He was troubled by the strange things the Rannoch eagles had said about the Wrath eagles being exterminated and wondered if his own capture had been part of that . |
| 26 | It has given me great pleasure and pride to have been part of that team . ’ |
| 27 | But however much that sense of a local spiral of depression exists , there is an ever-present sense that the economic crisis has been part of broader international changes and problems . |
| 28 | In the search for a transcendent level of knowledge , it has long been part of human endeavour to enter a symbolic womb of darkness and learn within its space . |
| 29 | I 've been part of Jewish life — and so have Rainbow and all her kind , and all the other heretics and deviants and dissenters — far longer than your little cult . ’ |
| 30 | Her humble beginnings , the magical means by which she had come to share her half-sister 's privileged life and had later by the queen-dowager 's design taken her place , had been part of some pre-ordained plan . |