Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 32 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 33 | There 'd been photographs of these people 's faces in the newspapers , but Stephen had forgotten what the faces looked like . |
| 34 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 35 | It may not have been love at first sight — winged ears and gangly legs have limited appeal — but their relationship was meant to be |
| 36 | As Hannah moves fluently along her journey into the past , what emerges most strongly to the listener is a sense of privilege — that here is a survivor of a lost way of life which was so innocent and simple , so materially deprived , yet spiritually rich , that it might have been part of another civilization altogether , surviving from an earlier century , perhaps . |
| 37 | Or they may have been hunters after larger prey , in which case when appendages are eventually discovered they may prove to have adaptations for grasping and manipulating larger food . |
| 38 | The high interest rates might well have depressed investment if other things had remained equal , but there may have been changes in other factors that helped to maintain investment : in other words , the I curve shifted to the right . |
| 39 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 40 | ‘ The MO 's they used may have been copies of earlier killings , even this latest one . |
| 41 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 42 | There may well have been others on other parts of the island , but unfortunately the heavy curtain of dust and fumes being carried by the wind prevented him getting right round . |
| 43 | Their lights picked out the graffiti of long-dead people — prayers , curses , obscenities , threats — and what might have been messages in alien script or in the calligraphy of madness . |
| 44 | Asked why not , he said : ‘ Because it would have been use of inside information . ’ |
| 45 | Beguiled by state-of-the-art techniques ( of the kind deployed for ‘ Cités-Cinés ’ , which captured the public imagination five years ago ) , architects and stage designers , experts from the worlds of cinema and advertising , as well as art historians , will create a series of typical settings , which were or could have been subjects for Impressionist paintings . |
| 46 | It was an important fight , and she should n't have been conce with petty pickings like the hymn-singers . |
| 47 | Instead , there must have been departures from uniform density . |
| 48 | The inadequacy of the rest will have been cause for serious concern in the England camp . |
| 49 | ‘ There could have been survivors aboard that plane . |
| 50 | There may also have been opportunities for paid work experience . |
| 51 | Fight as they did to keep the canoe on course they were driven westward of Castiglione ( near Sidi Ferruch ) when they should have been east of this port . |
| 52 | I 'm sure none of us noticed what must have been expressions of pure panic on the faces of our two teachers and the several parents who had volunteered to keep their own children and their classmates from certain death by drowning in the pool . |
| 53 | Access to special procedure material can only be obtained by virtue of a warrant issued by a circuit judge who can issue such a warrant either where , prior to the Act , there would have been access to such material and the first set of access conditions apply or where the judge has reasonable grounds to believe ( i ) a serious arrestable offence has been committed . |
| 54 | The shoes , handmade to last a life-time , should have been symbols of polite security , but there was no security . |
| 55 | Well , education having been oversold in that way , erm the pendulum swung very strongly in the opposite direction , and I think , for a while , starting with the so-called ‘ Great Debate ’ under James Callaghan , education became very undersold . |
| 56 | The French , having been victims of German occupation , were much less certain about this policy . |
| 57 | ( To both Leonard 's and his mother 's regret , sadly ; another of those alienating-reconciling events which seem to have been characteristic of this family . ) |
| 58 | And they seem to have been scientists of one sort or another . ’ |
| 59 | Though one might think that all those who left must have been in agreement with the National Socialist ideology , there appear to have been artists of all persuasions who remained members . |
| 60 | It has given me great pleasure and pride to have been part of that team . ’ |