Example sentences of "[noun sg] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How effective has occupational pension provision been in removing the present generation of ‘ young elderly ’ women , currently aged 60–75 , from poverty ? |
| 2 | These ‘ last days ’ have in measure been with us since his crucifixion two thousand years ago . |
| 3 | Had not the echo of my prayer been upon me still , I should not have been ready . |
| 4 | Owing to the increased employment on war work , trade union membership had in any case been on the increase . |
| 5 | They had in any case been considering asking me to remove her , as she had caused them quite a lot of trouble in one way and another . |
| 6 | Has Luke 's bloody sister been in touch with you ? |
| 7 | During your two years in Paris as Colnaghi 's representative , how much has your presence been of importance to selling as opposed to finding more sources of paintings than might have been possible from the London or New York base ? |
| 8 | Erm how long has this branch been in ? |
| 9 | I would ask those concerned if they could be patient and given time I will refund all money owing to them including any interest that would have accrued had their money been in a bank . |
| 10 | Their approach was in great contrast to what might have been the position had the official Opposition been in government . |
| 11 | Sentencing R v Barney ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 3 Oct 1989 A judge was in error in implying that , had a defendant been in a position to pay compensation to his victim , he might have received a shorter sentence than that in fact imposed . |
| 12 | Saner , Engineer to the Weaver Navigation , in his report to the Royal Commission on Inland Navigations in 1906 mentions Foxton Lift and its costly foundations , which might have been greatly reduced had the subsoil been of a nature or had there been available experience such as that gained in the course of the project . |
| 13 | So great had his concentration been on finishing the maps that Green had had little time to do anything else in those difficult years excepting for a brief visit to Buttermere in 1791 , and in 1793 he went to Wales and the Lake District with his stalwart helper Thornton ; but in 1794 he revisited Cumberland for twelve weeks two of which were devoted to Buttermere . |
| 14 | she said to me the other day , has my mummy been in ? |
| 15 | There is a good argument that the exclusion of a development corporation has in the long term been to Cramlington 's advantage , but the opportunity for land development profits was very important . |
| 16 | Had the recommendation been for industrial action and the crews voted against , I have no doubt Mr Clarke would have applauded the triumph of democracy . |
| 17 | Or he could jettison the myth and run in the second ballot as the leader of the majority , which was what he had in effect been since October 1962 . |
| 18 | How many of you' ve been before a Judge ? |
| 19 | ‘ Has most of your work been in Scotland ? ’ |
| 20 | Had the issue been at par ( i.e. had the real return on outstanding amounts of this stock been exactly 2 ½%),; it would have been issued at a price determined by the RPI eight months earlier in January 1991 . |
| 21 | But it is a feudalism where inequalities and poverty have been intensified by British colonialism and which has in the last thirty-seven years since independence been in a state of flux caused by the varying stages of capitalism which reach out to it from the towns and cities of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 22 | This mark-up would have been greater — almost 500 per cent — had the funeral in question been at the top of the market . |
| 23 | Not since the Jockey Club was founded 243 years ago has such radical racing reform been in the air and today is also the threshold of a new era which begins with Britain 's betting shops next Thursday . |
| 24 | How long has this traitor been in existence ? ’ |
| 25 | Thorkell was there , having in the interval been in English service , and so was the Norwegian Earl Eric of Lade , and , if we can trust Thietmar of Merseburg , one Thorgut . |
| 26 | How conservative or parsimonious has nature been with its signals and its building materials ? |
| 27 | For has n't this war been of immense gain to Bush and Major ? |
| 28 | What has my reaction been to criticism ? |
| 29 | Not since Alexandra Palace in North London has the Great British Beer Festival been at a site with so much style and heritage . |
| 30 | And the peedie fairy came back and lived with the old wife been afore . |