Example sentences of "[verb] been [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been work on imperfect monitoring in reputational models , Benabou and Laroque ( 1988 ) , Fudenberg and Levine ( 1988 , 1989 ) ; and there has also been work on models with a continuum of types , Milgrom and Roberts ( 1982 ) . |
| 2 | It would be very wise if the Left advocated the policy of land-value taxation , which has been part of Liberal policy this century . |
| 3 | In such intimate matters , one would expect that the feelings of the old person about their body and the extent to which ‘ family frankness ’ has been part of earlier experience would also play a part . |
| 4 | The result has been fragmentation in political life . |
| 5 | has been Head of Christian Aid 's Latin America/Caribbean Group for the last seven years . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , in both companies there has been scope for local initiative on the margin of national agreements , and at times in violation of them . |
| 7 | Mrs Owain Williams , who has been Chairman of this ball for the last three years , looked very pretty in black velvet . |
| 8 | Jordan , Europe 's number one toothbrush manufacturer , has been expert in dental hygiene for over 100 years . |
| 9 | The most serious impact on the community sector has been cuts in local authority spending — the largest source of revenue for most local organisations . |
| 10 | Both Nicaragua and Cuba have seen significant changes for women , but the Cuban example is particularly instructive , since there has been time for new gender roles to develop . |
| 11 | This is to ask whether there has been time for natural selection to specify the DNA present in the human genome . |
| 12 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 13 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 14 | It may not have been love at first sight — winged ears and gangly legs have limited appeal — but their relationship was meant to be |
| 15 | As Hannah moves fluently along her journey into the past , what emerges most strongly to the listener is a sense of privilege — that here is a survivor of a lost way of life which was so innocent and simple , so materially deprived , yet spiritually rich , that it might have been part of another civilization altogether , surviving from an earlier century , perhaps . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 18 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Asked why not , he said : ‘ Because it would have been use of inside information . ’ |
| 21 | Instead , there must have been departures from uniform density . |
| 22 | The inadequacy of the rest will have been cause for serious concern in the England camp . |
| 23 | ‘ There could have been survivors aboard that plane . |
| 24 | There may also have been opportunities for paid work experience . |
| 25 | Fight as they did to keep the canoe on course they were driven westward of Castiglione ( near Sidi Ferruch ) when they should have been east of this port . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Access to special procedure material can only be obtained by virtue of a warrant issued by a circuit judge who can issue such a warrant either where , prior to the Act , there would have been access to such material and the first set of access conditions apply or where the judge has reasonable grounds to believe ( i ) a serious arrestable offence has been committed . |
| 28 | The shoes , handmade to last a life-time , should have been symbols of polite security , but there was no security . |
| 29 | Well , education having been oversold in that way , erm the pendulum swung very strongly in the opposite direction , and I think , for a while , starting with the so-called ‘ Great Debate ’ under James Callaghan , education became very undersold . |
| 30 | The French , having been victims of German occupation , were much less certain about this policy . |