Example sentences of "been [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers . |
| 2 | When this happens the rest of the school , who along the way have trained with the successful runner , may have beaten him on occasion , have been course markers , marshals , timekeepers , supporters and team-mates , really feel that sport is n't just another soap opera glimpsed on television or paraded through the back pages of the newspapers — it 's something that they are actively experiencing at first hand for themselves . |
| 3 | In fact the commonest cause of death on the hill in the last three years in the Lake District has been heart attacks . |
| 4 | The place gave Johnson another whiff of anthropology : here he stood as if in Africa or Arabia , greeting wild natives in their habitat : these Macraes might have been Xhosa tribesmen , or Tuaregs : ‘ The villagers gathered about us in considerable numbers , I believe without any evil intention , but with a very savage wildness of aspect and manner . ’ |
| 5 | After the 1987 election , the parliamentary party had only eleven MPs who had served in the Guards , and a further eight who had been cavalry officers . |
| 6 | For example , Figure 8.5 shows that this can vary from landscape improvement to recreation , and that the two main spatial units have been kilometre squares and landscape tracts ( Penning-Rowsell , 1975 ) . |
| 7 | However , the only unauthorised visitors appear to have been souvenir hunters and men foraging among the stores . |
| 8 | On another low table by the wall there was an inexpensive stereo unit and some uneven stacks of records ; he could n't make out the details on the posters on the wall above the unit , but they might have been Escher prints . |
| 9 | In recent years , all her wars had been frontier battles , fought round her coasts to repel raiders and oust alien settlements . |
| 10 | There had been car break-ins in the area but there was nothing to connect Wolfenden with them . |
| 11 | There have been research monographs on corporate crime and law enforcement processes in America ( Clinard and Yeager 1980 ) , Australia ( Hopkins 1978 ) , Britain ( Carson 1981 ; Carson and Martin 1974 ) , and Canada ( Goff and Reasons 1978 ) . |
| 12 | The politics she had encountered had been trades councils and Young Socialist meetings ; the Americans wore beads , mumbled , talked about direct action . |
| 13 | We have already noted in our examination of CD-ROM markets ( see 2.7 ) that libraries have been pioneer users of CD-ROMs . |
| 14 | They , they we they had some guns on the castle and they were , I suppose there must have been enemy planes over . |
| 15 | ‘ A number of distinguished engineers have been Whitworth Scholars , and we expect this year 's award winners to be high achievers in their subsequent careers , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Where once upon a time there had only been fishing boats , now bobbed the magnificent yachts of international millionaires . |
| 17 | erm potentially , in a rich soil , in a wide range of erm crops , of course , coffee , cotton , tea , especially have been export earners in the past , but also they produce sugar and erm basic foodstuffs . |
| 18 | There is a lot of work ahead to check with other forces on what 's been stolen.The police will contact people who 've reported antiques stolen to tell them if they 've been recovered . |
| 19 | There have been racecourse stations , such as Newbury Racecourse and Aintree . |
| 20 | Some were growing beards and going bald which may not seem like drastic changes , but in the women there must have been side effects from changing your course of pills . |
| 21 | There had been oriole rumours circulating earlier . |
| 22 | It is perhaps significant that none of the last four Lord Chief Justices — Lords Goddard , Parker , Widgery and Lane — had been law officers . |
| 23 | ‘ My deah , ’ she cooed , croaking like Katharine Hepburn , ‘ it 's been sempleah ages … ‘ |
| 24 | It is not only a colour variety but also a more milky strain of the breed and there have been dairy herds of the beloved ‘ Belties ’ , though they would be better described as dual-purpose cattle . |
| 25 | Since late July in cities across the country there had been work stoppages and demonstrations in protest at the lack of cigarettes , in many cases degenerating into rioting . |
| 26 | On his left — but for the bungaloid eruption — ; there would have been sand dunes going down to the deep blue sea of the Channel ; the stretch of golden sand — had it not been for the litter — making a gentle curve for five miles . |
| 27 | 2109 and 2113 had been war casualties and written off , five standard Felthams scrapped at Purley depôt as already described and in November 1950 , while the move was in progress , Nos. 2144 and 2162 caught fire and were burned out . |
| 28 | During 1989 the main source of rebellion in the state had been Bodo tribesmen [ see pp. 36694 ; 37348 ] . |
| 29 | Although there would undoubtedly have been job losses after the merger , the proposal can be viewed as a relatively straightforward attempt to restructure and then rationalise an industry with excess capacity , with firms which were insufficiently large to exploit economies of scale and thus unable to make a profit . |
| 30 | We regret very much the fact that there have been job losses in the defence industry — of course — and the figure is 25,000 — If the hon. Gentleman will not even listen to the reply to his argument it is his loss . |