Example sentences of "[verb] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , I was going to 've been Suzanne Brown , years ago , before he stole my bag . |
| 2 | Possibly because some of them might 've been councillors and knew the ways that sort of er things went on and how to get things done officially and above board . |
| 3 | A sliver of white that must 've been teeth . |
| 4 | Er , I think really it must 've been thrift . |
| 5 | And I 've , I 've done that and it , there 's not one thing you can point to and say there 's no one in here because it 's several things , altogether , that indicate it , it might have been there 's no car on the drive , there might 've been , there might 've been milk still out . |
| 6 | It should 've been Concorde . |
| 7 | so it might 've been Rob that went out with her , but I du n no . |
| 8 | The tourist might 've been cake . |
| 9 | It would 've been cosine . |
| 10 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 11 | ‘ It must 've been Helga . |
| 12 | It would n't have mattered who , it could 've been family , friends , neighbourhood , anybody . |
| 13 | The British still tend to treat him with a faintly hostile embarrassment : as well they might , since for the past four years , his principal message has been condemnation of their duplicity in , as he sees it , backing away from promises to introduce democratic government by 1997 . |
| 14 | One exception has been Dean Hodgson , a neat and conscientious opener who has been picking up where he left off the season before last . |
| 15 | Unemployment has risen by nearly 1 million in the time that the hon. Gentleman has been Chancellor and Prime Minister , but still he refuses to do anything useful to stop that remorseless rise . |
| 16 | During the course of the time the right hon. Gentleman has been Chancellor and Prime Minister he is convicted by his own record and condemned by his own inaction in the face of the slump that he caused . |
| 17 | Most marked has been Sun 's reluctance to concede any ground to OSF 's Motif interface , even though many Sun users clearly prefer that graphical environment over Sun 's Open Look GUI . |
| 18 | A simple way to tell whether an item has been sun washed or chemically washed is to open the pile . |
| 19 | The length of time it has been operation will determine how much money she gets back , but it is unlikely to have made much of a profit , because endowments are designed to make money over a long period of time . |
| 20 | The Police 's long term answer has been Operation Overdrive . |
| 21 | The ethos of Soviet-style socialism has been opportunity . |
| 22 | Also singled out for particular censure has been Mozart 's wife Constanze , who has often been accused of hastening her husband 's early death through her sluttishness , extravagance , and inability to keep the household finances in order . |
| 23 | One of the trickiest problems with a faceted classification scheme has been notation , that is to say , the symbols ( e.g. decimal numbers ) which represent the subject and mechanize its place in a shelf or catalogue array . |
| 24 | Unix System Laboratories Europe has appointed Irwan Owen as account manager for the UK and Ireland — for the past year he has been USL 's account manager for Italy . |
| 25 | Can you recommend a strong holding , affordable styling mousse that gives control and body to difficult hair but that has been allergy tested . |
| 26 | Among the hardest hit has been Aerospace , which faces a tough time over the next two to three years . |
| 27 | Sir Jeremy has been Warden ( Chairman of the Governing Body ) of his old school , Winchester , since 1987 , and became an Honorary Fellow of New College in 1979 . |
| 28 | The main problem has been lack of support , both in attendance and especially help . |
| 29 | One source of instability , you rightly note , has been lack of competitiveness in countries like Italy , whose unit labour costs rose by 10% compared with those of other industrial countries between 1987 and August 1992 . |
| 30 | Secondly the deliveries of the equipment from the equipment suppliers who had been selected er generally fell behind the promises which they had made , so the main reason for the technical delays has been lack of equipment of the correct standard to proceed with the integration programme erm the erm the problems which beset the programme in nineteen ninety two after the German minister started questioning its future clearly had a direct bearing on that because many of the equipment suppliers , particularly those in Germany , suddenly began to think hey this programme is not going anywhere , why should we invest a lot of effort and and money into it and they slowed down so that has had a knock on effect in in terms of delaying the total programme and erm the result of all of that has been that the current development programme schedule which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |