Example sentences of "been [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been profiles of him that suggested that he was a jogger who had been bitten by one of Alex ‘ Down Sir ’ Snell 's pit-bulls . |
| 2 | There may have been times during your working life when you have not , either knowingly or unwittingly , paid national insurance contributions . |
| 3 | But she admits : ‘ Yes , there have been times of anger and frustration for me as well as Jack . |
| 4 | Not that those centuries had been times of uninterrupted peace . |
| 5 | However , there have been times in the recent past when 50 per cent of the artists selling and succeeding in the USA have been British . |
| 6 | There had been times in her life when she had been — if not happy , then content . |
| 7 | I know nothing about Mr McLachlan he does not appear in Who 's Who : whether he hails from Scotland , Ireland , Korea or Czechoslovakia ; whether he is Catholic , Presbyterian or Buddhist ; whether he is married with children ( sorry , kids ) or celibate ; whether there have been tragedies in his life , or whether it has been an uninterrupted progression to his present exalted situation . |
| 8 | Yet when I emerged from that heaven-haven of sexual absolution , I would feel guilty , frightened , torn between happiness at being liberated from overwhelming sexual tension and the scared wonder of the events , as if they had been rituals in a half-remembered primitive religion . |
| 9 | Been ages since the last time , it were about two year I . |
| 10 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 11 | The point was long in doubt , and there may have been reasons for thinking that it might not be appropriate to extend the obligation to measures adopted before a directive existed . |
| 12 | None of these people should ever have been prisoners of conscience . |
| 13 | Many of these have also been authorities with substantial areas of inner-urban deprivation within their boundaries . |
| 14 | ‘ There have been disappearances like this before . ’ |
| 15 | The second major contextual change has been shifts in government policy , operating in the context of large scale youth unemployment . |
| 16 | Over the past 40 years , there have been shifts in nuclear strategy and changes in technology and in the appreciation of the perceived threat . |
| 17 | ‘ It should have been Bells with the number of ringers who 've been playing ’ . |
| 18 | Of course there have been discussions between the Trust and civil servants but nothing has gone to PESC ( the expenditure talks ) . ’ |
| 19 | Clearly at the state of the talks with the T & G , we still have a long long way to go to reach this new goal and there 's a strong rumour that there has been discussions between Sir John Edmunds and Lord Bill Morris the name of the new union already and I think an apt title for the union at the moment would be Yugoslavia because we 're in ethnic groups , we are sections , we 've got the boiler makers who are still claiming things they lost ten years ago when they merged . |
| 20 | I write that the paradox is apparent because there have been signs of the same phenomenon in England over the past few seasons — and also because it is not at all surprising when you come to think about it . |
| 21 | This polarisation of attitudes was perhaps unfortunate since there had been signs of a certain willingness on the part of the Department to reconsider the validity of their ideas and to give some weight to the social issues behind the public reaction to the housing policy . |
| 22 | Jackals and martens could hardly have lifted the latch and , even if they had found their way in , there would have been signs of a scuffle : dead chickens , scattered feathers . |
| 23 | Surely there would have been signs of porpoise tanks or something of that kind on board , and there was only the diving equipment and the submersible research vehicle . |
| 24 | In more recent years there have been signs of a change in emphasis . |
| 25 | In the past few years there have been signs of its introduction and extension by manufacturing organisations experiencing increasing volatility in their markets , increasing inability to predict their manpower requirements and increasing pressures to minimise labour costs . |
| 26 | As recently as 1985 , there had been signs of greater even-handedness on the part of the RUC , reflected in more frequent prosecutions of Protestants for ‘ insurgency offences ’ . |
| 27 | The winter of Keynesian discontent probably occurred in the early 1980s , since when there have been signs of a marked rally . |
| 28 | The nose had been smashed , the throat was terribly bruised , and there had been attempts to both burn and boil the remains . |
| 29 | There have been attempts at explanation . |
| 30 | In the case of titles , of course ( that is , markers like Miss and Mrs ) there have been attempts at reform , and in some countries — though not in Britain — they have been very successful . |