Example sentences of "[adj] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , there is a sense in which most of the working genes in a body can be said to cooperate with each other as a team , because over evolutionary time they ( i.e. ancestral copies of themselves ) have each been part of the environment in which natural selection has worked on the others . |
| 2 | Had that been Swift 's study ? |
| 3 | Its six counties , by the wish of their majority , have since 1801 been part of the United Kingdom , an independent country since — well , let's say since 1776 . |
| 4 | It was understood that Berisha and his second-in-command Gramoz Pashko ( who had from June to December 1991 been Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister ) , were hopeful that in the longer term the USA , with its 600,000 Albanian Americans , might be a source of such aid and investment . |
| 5 | We 've , we 've all been tearaways . |
| 6 | Forty years ago they would have all been half-colonels in Intelligence . |
| 7 | We 've all — take these two poems , we 've all been children ; most people have been in love ; we 're all we all think about our death ; we all think about our parents ; we all like stories and we all like stories that seem , you know , to deal with some primal central human experience , so I do n't think you have to say anything more than what we all know already , that we all have a great deal in common with one another . |
| 8 | But Vicky 's now , she had erm anorexia the girl friend , she sort of got over it but then er hos , her mum and , oh it 's all very confusing , mum and the boy friend been together for years , they 've now split up , Vicky 's now , it 's all been sort of everything on top of her |
| 9 | I mean they 've all been sort of saying oh well you know it 's ridiculous to take him , let him play his panto and then sort of just join |
| 10 | Dr Helen Muir has since 1977 been Director ofthe Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and since 1982 has been Scientific Trustee of the Wellcome Trust . |
| 11 | I ferried and drove to Great Neck one weekend to see Maggie , an old friend from the Sixties , who 'd been through three husbands and several transformations since we 'd first been King 's Road freaks together . |
| 12 | In August 1988 a firm of accountants who had from 1983 to 1989 been auditors of A. Plc. , the holding company of a worldwide group of companies , produced a ‘ working capital report ’ stating that the company 's directors might ‘ reasonably make the statement that in their opinion ’ the A. Group ‘ has sufficient working capital for its present requirements . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ How long had you two been lovers ? ’ |
| 14 | Arthit Kamlang-ek , an influential former Supreme Commander of Armed Forces and Army C.-in-C. , had since May 1988 been leader of the Thai People party , whose 17 members had voted with the government in the July no-confidence motion , and which thus now joined the ruling coalition . |