Example sentences of "[been] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , although there have been disagreements Israel 's bond with the United States has been rock-solid , built upon agreement ‘ concerning the nature and extent of the Soviet threat to the region ’ . |
| 2 | Although Clive & Stokes took on one partner from Barker , Peter Bingham ( who had been personnel Director of Bowater ) , the strategy was not successful and in 1986 the connection with Barker was severed . |
| 3 | The politics she had encountered had been trades councils and Young Socialist meetings ; the Americans wore beads , mumbled , talked about direct action . |
| 4 | How much intimidation took place after the previous raid is hard to gauge , but in 1955 Charley Head , who had been signals officer with 3 Commando in March 1941 , revisited the islands and learnt that no one was shot after the March raid , although some houses had been burnt down . |
| 5 | There had been things Crevecoeur could have done to get out , such as take advantage of the open invitation to take up with Cab 's natro group . |
| 6 | Had the matter been res integra , there is much to be said in favour of Judge Davies QC 's reasoning . |
| 7 | I found it hard to find Mill 's arguments for this , although he seems to be , he seems to be arguing the point over several pages , but erm we get pretty much rhetorical claims and evidence and so he wants us to consider those states which have been ruled by despots with those contemporary states which have been democracies England versus Spain say and he thinks it 's obvious which type of system we ought to prefer . |
| 8 | And it had been while McGrath had been features editor that Peace News had carried the spread extolling Ginsberg 's London readings , and the big page feature on the Albert Hall gathering . |
| 9 | Twins Brian and John Linighan , 18 , have been YTS apprentices at Sheffield Wednesday for the past two years . |
| 10 | There have been accidents aplenty on this cluttered but charming course . |
| 11 | A further fifty had been lost in the old days , as they were swung into place by teams of sweating slaves ( and there had been slaves aplenty , in the first days of the Power ) and the great rings had gone crashing into the depths , dragging their unfortunate manipulators with them . |
| 12 | Benny did n't know that Peggy Pine was an old friend of Mother Francis , that they had been girls years ago and that when she came to the convent she called Mother Francis Bunty . |
| 13 | No matter that it had been police business , and that someone had to do it , he had personally selected Phyllis Henley yesterday . |
| 14 | In fact , she reminded herself , since they had been children Mandy had always had a knack for getting her sombre cousin , normally something of a goody-two-shoes , into a great deal of trouble . |
| 15 | The Wrights had always been classics masters at the great public schools , or clergymen . |
| 16 | The safest and most popular alternative ( but not the cheapest ) has traditionally been travellers cheques , which are , in general , universally accepted . |
| 17 | There had been women writers of the Restoration whose reputations were unassailable , notably Katherine Phillips , but to publish was indeed a risk . |
| 18 | Its most striking answer in International Relations has been systems theory , which we shall examine in the next chapter . |
| 19 | Funny how it had been malai policy to murder him and , earlier , the young men in the television crew , and now it was policy to stand them , or their kind , a round at the bar . |