Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Usher she had been top dog . |
| 2 | Touche Ross , the receivers for Scarborough 's troubled Royal Hotel , say there has been keen interest from potential buyers and negotiations should start soon . |
| 3 | ‘ Now they say there has been secret dumping of waste from the submarines and nuclear icebreakers . |
| 4 | He says there 's been proper consultation with the local communities and the local authorities including the parish councils . |
| 5 | In the half century since the " Big Book " was written there has been continuing effort to reduce the number of people who fail to find recovery through the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 6 | But by looking at this document here , it would appear there 's been more violence committed there against lawful pickets and yet that does n't make the national press . |
| 7 | They have also cast doubt on his client 's character by implying there 's been some sort of fraud . |
| 8 | John Major and Albert Reynolds have said there has been some progress in talks on the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | Mr Maclean insisted that it was nonsense to suggest there had been any contamination of the food chain or to make comparisons to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 10 | Eight ( 32 per cent ) stated there had been closer consultation with young people in care , five ( 20 per cent ) with foster-parents , four with residential workers , four with natural parents , and three with unspecified others . |
| 11 | Erm , I 'm sorry to come back to the central overheads er again , but erm it , considering that the other income largely related to ninety one , I 'm a little unclear why the central costs went down , I ca n't believe there 's been any salary cuts at |
| 12 | For as long as I can remember it 's been that way . ’ |
| 13 | I think erm er I know there has been some discussion of I I about er and I put er , in this report I think all the documentation that the ministers and ministers that had already seen it and I 've explained that the big issue is that er the URC , I think a weekly account o ah of all other informations has er , worked out very on the basis of five thousand and I was been tugging you pay your car off to get that and . |
| 14 | " Look , " said Hazel , " I know there 's been some trouble , but the best thing will be to try to forget it . |
| 15 | ‘ I hear there 's been another woman killed not far from where Angy lived . |
| 16 | Well er , I do n't really think there 's been enough improvement to backlash against and er |
| 17 | ‘ Thirty years ago Thomas contested his father 's will , he lost but his action split the family ; I do n't think there 's been any contact since . ’ |
| 18 | But in terms of service and common purposes between ourselves I do n't think there has been particular resistance to doing what we 've been doing . |
| 19 | It was a song or a poem — I do n't know which but to my knowledge it has never been published — which was called ‘ Beautiful Angie ’ , and I clicked immediately and realised there had been another woman about the house . |
| 20 | Cottee was not transfer-listed yesterday , but it is common knowledge that Everton are open to offers and Kendall revealed there has been some interest already this season from other clubs . |
| 21 | But later a spokesman admitted there had been TWO surface subs in the area around that time . |
| 22 | If you actually you actually look at the front of the building there 's a great deal of money been spent there 's been new flower er boxes put out there . |
| 23 | Forgotten , or decided it had been idle talk , a vow impossible to realise . |
| 24 | Eastern winds have brought what had been fair sport back to a normal level for the time of year . |
| 25 | Here they felt there had been much progress . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't suppose it 's been much help . ’ |
| 27 | Yeah , but there 's been , I think there 's been one warning when |
| 28 | A lot of ‘ behind the scenes ’ work has meant there has been little news to report for some months on the A1 Locomotive Trust 's plans to build Peppercorn Pacific No 60163 . |
| 29 | Where computer systems have been investigated they have been large mainframe systems . |
| 30 | The Minister can not fail to acknowledge what has been common knowledge in the combined heat and power industry — that the major block is electricity prices . |