Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most serious impact on the community sector has been cuts in local authority spending — the largest source of revenue for most local organisations . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 3 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 4 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 5 | There 'd been photographs of these people 's faces in the newspapers , but Stephen had forgotten what the faces looked like . |
| 6 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 7 | Or they may have been hunters after larger prey , in which case when appendages are eventually discovered they may prove to have adaptations for grasping and manipulating larger food . |
| 8 | The high interest rates might well have depressed investment if other things had remained equal , but there may have been changes in other factors that helped to maintain investment : in other words , the I curve shifted to the right . |
| 9 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 10 | ‘ The MO 's they used may have been copies of earlier killings , even this latest one . |
| 11 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 12 | There may well have been others on other parts of the island , but unfortunately the heavy curtain of dust and fumes being carried by the wind prevented him getting right round . |
| 13 | Their lights picked out the graffiti of long-dead people — prayers , curses , obscenities , threats — and what might have been messages in alien script or in the calligraphy of madness . |
| 14 | Beguiled by state-of-the-art techniques ( of the kind deployed for ‘ Cités-Cinés ’ , which captured the public imagination five years ago ) , architects and stage designers , experts from the worlds of cinema and advertising , as well as art historians , will create a series of typical settings , which were or could have been subjects for Impressionist paintings . |
| 15 | Instead , there must have been departures from uniform density . |
| 16 | ‘ There could have been survivors aboard that plane . |
| 17 | There may also have been opportunities for paid work experience . |
| 18 | I 'm sure none of us noticed what must have been expressions of pure panic on the faces of our two teachers and the several parents who had volunteered to keep their own children and their classmates from certain death by drowning in the pool . |
| 19 | The shoes , handmade to last a life-time , should have been symbols of polite security , but there was no security . |
| 20 | The French , having been victims of German occupation , were much less certain about this policy . |
| 21 | And they seem to have been scientists of one sort or another . ’ |
| 22 | Though one might think that all those who left must have been in agreement with the National Socialist ideology , there appear to have been artists of all persuasions who remained members . |
| 23 | On Feb. 21 , arson attacks against three department stores in Frankfurt were reported to have been protests against western involvement in the Gulf . |
| 24 | Although most of the new recruits to Kharkov 's metallurgical plants in 1914–17 had been ex-peasants from western Ukraine , there was no danger of nationalist sentiment ousting the Bolsheviks from the city . |
| 25 | As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers . |
| 26 | Not that those centuries had been times of uninterrupted peace . |
| 27 | The big American computer users — such as Boeing and General Motors — which had been pioneers of intra-company networks , were also natural supporters of OSI . |
| 28 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 29 | Sir Edmund found there had been cases of physical ill-treatment such as wall-standing , hooding , noise , deprivation of sleep , and diets of bread and water . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |