Example sentences of "been [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past there have been roads named after Shakespeare characters , famous painters and even Nottingham Forest footballers ! |
| 2 | And time after time after time , there have been cases prepared and whenever they came to court , there was nobody prepared to go into that courtroom . |
| 3 | There have been cases reported of gonorrhoea being passed on within four or five hours of its having been acquired , so , unlike the case with syphilis , there is no ‘ safe ’ period between catching and giving the infection . |
| 4 | The capital fund remained at £113 and again there had been money spent on the course ‘ several new tees ; several altered and new bunkers ; green treatments and alterations ’ . |
| 5 | The flysheet is made from nylon which has been polyurethane coated . |
| 6 | When the historian Asa Briggs examined their backgrounds he found that fifty-six of them had been university educated , forty at Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 7 | So far , although applications have been piloted using particular delivery media , such as CD-ROM , CD-I and DVI , these have generally been databases confined to the individual media . |
| 8 | First has been research focused upon chronology of landscape change which has ( Butzer , 1974 ; Vita-Finzi , 1969 ) demonstrated how human activity was a pertinent factor influencing the course of alluvial chronology and in Greece Davidson ( 1980a ) has demonstrated that erosion was underway during the Bronze Age but that spatial variations were substantial . |
| 9 | There have been cars done by lots of people round the world that missed their targets . |
| 10 | In a letter to the community development committee , secretary and treasurer Les Crossman said : ‘ There has been football played at South Bank since 1868 and there is a real danger of the club folding without financial assistance . ’ |
| 11 | If I 'd caught the buggers I tell you , there would have been murder done . ’ |
| 12 | Skiing is just like windsurfing , except the water 's been freeze dried , spread around a mountain side and bashed into submission . |
| 13 | bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud |
| 14 | I would have been boss eyed before I got out of Lynn , I could feel it you know , squint through |
| 15 | The visit has not all been work orientated , however , as a visit to Loch Ness has been fitted in , together with sight-seeing visits to Dundee and Inverness . |
| 16 | A simple way to tell whether an item has been sun washed or chemically washed is to open the pile . |
| 17 | Had it been in the day time I 'm sure there would have been lives lost for they would n't have stayed in to seen their stuff go under . |
| 18 | He imagined she would have been charm personified if she wanted something from him , but offhand and dismissive if she had not . |
| 19 | Safrane 's design has been optimised to provide the best in passenger protection and the car has also been crash tested at 35 mph into an oblique barrier rather than the standard 30 mph ‘ head-on ’ impact test . |
| 20 | Today 's children have been IBM written in xenon atoms ; they learn ( without comment from anyone ) the shape of India , the Earth 's distance from the moon , dinosaurs and many other things they will never verify themselves ; yet the first reaction of many adults to our lessons is ‘ How do you get them to believe ’ ? |
| 21 | As most relatives have been denied access to the graves , or have been brow beaten into silence the true figures are much higher , and some sources put the figure in excess of 5,000 . |
| 22 | There has also been attention paid to the design of the automated welding equipment in order to remove particularly poor job design features , but we discuss these later when we compare SAAB with BL . |
| 23 | To remind the assembly that this is a matter which was raised I think by Mr a couple of years ago and when a very similar motion was accepted by the Board er asking us to raise this matter with the the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Scotland , which we did er we know that there has been attention paid to this by the , the hierarchy . |
| 24 | There have been before the present application which was approved , there have been applications refused because the Oxford City Planning Committee were concerned particularly about er access and parking arrangements , and the effects of the extensions er on the front of the building , er very close to Sandy Lane , by the impact of those buildings in particular on residential amenity , on the houses and the occupants of them on the other side of Sandy Lane . |
| 25 | He had , of course , been security checked and re-checked , and every time found to be clean . |
| 26 | The council which owns the pool needs to save a million pounds , because it 's been charge capped by the government . |
| 27 | They have been charge capped and have been forced to make cuts and the Tory group themsleves felt that the Government spending limits were unfair . |
| 28 | Item — there had been horsemen seen near the priory , but who were they and who had sent them ? |
| 29 | Have there ever been surveys done erm to see how many people actually understand |
| 30 | I have a wonderful coat ( so shiny that people think it has been boot polished ! ) . |