Example sentences of "[noun] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had Trent been Miguelito he would have lain in wait in the jungle by the catamaran . |
| 2 | Surely , having gone completely against what is standard medical advice for a hiatus hernia , he would have done exactly the same had his heart been suspect . |
| 3 | His invoker had of course been Joshua Godolphin , and he 'd commanded Dowd to serve his line until the end of time . |
| 4 | He has also of course been Chairman of the Sekers Group for a number of years . |
| 5 | There have several times been movements for reform in the course of this century . |
| 6 | The percentage varies according to whether there have in addition been discussion sessions or an examination on the subject matter . |
| 7 | Has this coverage been hype or does DTP really represent a new application that will continue to develop and expand during coming months ? |
| 8 | since when has Stratford on Avon been south ? |
| 9 | The staple crop has for centuries been rice , and wet-rice agriculture has been of crucial significance in the evolution of Japanese society . |
| 10 | But if that is the case , they ask , why has n't Ruth Hilali been touch with colleagues for the last four months . |
| 11 | I widnae hae been sae quick if I 'd hud tae walk . ’ |
| 12 | Yet had the visitors been England or Australia he may well not have been able to resist the temptation , and this was only partly because they were the leading lights in world cricket ; there was also the racial aspect , in that he passionately wanted to prove that a team of black players led by a black captain was the equal of , if not better than , the white teams . |
| 13 | A benefit will be treated as received in the United Kingdom if , had the benefit been income arising from possessions , s65(6)– ( 9 ) would have deemed the income to have been received in the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | Had Auntie been fool enough last February to believe it , she had a choice of 190 ‘ UK growth ’ funds — and in 187 of them the growth was negative . |
| 15 | To Miss D'Arcy he was Colonel Hope ; to Mary he had for a moment been Augustus ; to his new self , John alone ; with Joanna he had no name and experienced the inscrutable animal comfort of brief blank joy . |
| 16 | Everything seemed fresher , brighter , more real today , as though all his quite normal , perfectly standard surroundings had until this point been actors fumbling behind some thin stage curtain , struggling to get out , but now stood , triumphant expression frozen on face , hands spread , going " Ta-Raah ! " on the boards at last . |
| 17 | Late in life he married a member of the Wilkinson family ( whose firm had for many years been solicitors to the College ) . |
| 18 | We would not have done so had the fee been £600 . |
| 19 | Had Anna been Adamus 's mother , as Rachaela suspected ? |
| 20 | How long had Mr Utterson , Doctor Jekyll , and Doctor Lanyon been friends ? |
| 21 | How long have rabbits been elil ? |
| 22 | Had the young people been law-breakers of the son which writer and reader would seldom encounter socially , no such justification would have been necessary . |
| 23 | More demonstrably , however , there has in the past been evidence of some feeling in Parliament that the Comptroller and Auditor General should be given the power to audit all public money voted by Parliament , including that voted to nationalized industries . |
| 24 | There had in the past been clergymen who had elaborated the written account in the manner of solo violinists , composing their own cadenzas , and their elaborations had found their way into the written account . |
| 25 | It was in this community that the closest approximation to a traditional participant observation study was achieved , since the observer had for her entire life been part of the social setting which she was observing . |
| 26 | So that I think , had the subject been injustice , it would have just been just as er , exciting as justice , fact or fiction . |
| 27 | Had the matter been res integra , there is much to be said in favour of Judge Davies QC 's reasoning . |
| 28 | It had to be a child , Coffin thought , and had n't Mrs Foster been Gilly Slee when he had known her at Hook Road School ? |
| 29 | They coulda been contenders . |
| 30 | ( It 's terrifying to think how punch drunk one would have left the cinema had Oliver Stone been director . ) |