Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the tabloids , additions to the range of publications have either been arm's-length extensions of existing publishing groups ( Today , 1986 — ) or born out of existing publishing houses ( Mail on Sunday , 1983 — , Star , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | The basis for assessment , therefore , would have been administrative records such as tax registers , providing evidence of the value to the monarch of individual civitates , which had been the basic units of government in the later Roman Empire . |
| 3 | Tekere alleged that four of his supporters had been killed in Harare , and that others had been harassed ; he also claimed there had been administrative irregularities in the polling . |
| 4 | It is natural that parents , and mothers in particular , should feel sadness and a sense of bereavement , whether or not they have been full-time housewives and mothers . |
| 5 | What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on . |
| 6 | The financial advisers of those days were probably the people who taught the ones who have been professional schemes . |
| 7 | Newcomers often found work in areas that lay outside the jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor and Corporation , in what had once been rural manors ; they moved constantly from one district to another . |
| 8 | There have been retrospective exhibitions , but none has provided , I feel , a fully balanced representation of the different periods of his work . |
| 9 | There have been conflicting reports about much of the 36-year-old bachelor 's background . |
| 10 | There have been conflicting reports concerning the form of gastrin that is increased in H pylori infection . |
| 11 | There have been conflicting reports of raised levels of neutralising , circulating antibodies to adenovirus 12 in coeliac disease patients . |
| 12 | There had been conflicting opinions by individual judges on whether injuries must be sustained by a living person before next-of-kin could sue . |
| 13 | There had been conflicting stories as to whether Anthony had been intended , Wells having gone on record as saying he had been conceived in a moment of carelessness , professor Gordon Ray , who edited the West-Wells correspondence , as saying it was a deliberate attempt by Wells to keep Rebecca with him , and Rebecca herself as saying , ‘ Wells cheated me of all but one child . ’ |
| 14 | Men had only ever been pleasant pastimes in her full and varied life . |
| 15 | Recently there have been confusing reports about just who is at risk and what the statistics prove . |
| 16 | At least once a fortnight there have been confusing signals coming from rugby in South Africa , in contrast to the clear-cut campaign that South African cricket conducted on their way to entry in the World Cup in New Zealand and Australia in this southern summer . |
| 17 | There had been rich Christians before the time of Constantine , there had been educated or upper-class people to be found in Christian communities , and in growing numbers during the century before Constantine . |
| 18 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 19 | ( In Aeschylean tragedy ) the characters had been eternal types representing the universal laws implicit in myth . |
| 20 | There have been understandable worries about the possible effects on houses of rises in groundwater levels once the barrage is built . |
| 21 | If it had been a more crowded time there would have been unbelievable numbers , ’ he said . |
| 22 | A more plausible alternative was the renovation of existing buildings , some of which had originally been solid structures . |
| 23 | A scan of the literature concerned with early Anglo-Saxon archaeology over the last 25 years has hardly reflected this change until very recently when there have been definite signs that dissatisfaction is leading to experimentation ; otherwise the Sutton Hoo harp has been played while the archaeological world burned . |
| 24 | Make out that they 've been right bastards to . |
| 25 | We pass some strangely shaped mountains that must have been volcanic plugs poking up through vast panoramas . |
| 26 | There had been strange lights and incantations , the sacrifice of a black cock at midnight , but he had cleared them out and barred the graveyard , threatening the congregation with the pains of excommunication in this life and Hell fire in the next . |
| 27 | But there had been strange times since then , and they 'd put Gentle in an apter mood for this study . |
| 28 | However , there have also been economic pressures to allow developments within the national parks , including mineral workings in the Yorkshire region and oil refining in Pembrokeshire . |
| 29 | ‘ Had it been normal parents sitting in court , would they have been ordered to pay £7,000 ? |
| 30 | Hostility to wealth and demands for its redistribution have been normal features of British politics since the 1890s . |