Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain — outside the centralised and bureaucratic collective bargaining machinery which typifies the public sector — the trend has been towards more plant-level bargaining , more company-level agreements and generally more participation in collective bargaining by union workplace and management representatives at local level . |
| 2 | One of the members of his staff , Wing Commander Ken Underwood Ground , has been on so many accident investigations now that he is regarded as an unofficial honorary Inspector of Accidents by AIB . |
| 3 | It means you have to treat the first invoice as an error , and possible invoke the DOCTOR ( which has been with most Sage products for ages ) to correct things , and then go and do it right . |
| 4 | Is he aware that there has been at least one case in which , having seen a name badge , a claimant looked in the phone book and traced the Benefits Agency employee to his home . |
| 5 | Apart from our Nimrods , there has been at least one overflight by a Tupolev . ’ |
| 6 | There has been at least one occasion where we 've caught a cold because this was not done . |
| 7 | Frankly , it is not an outstanding record of achievement , considering there has been at least one Second Division club in the semi-finals for 30 of the 47 seasons since the last war . |
| 8 | But most architects involved in liability cases feel that there has been at least some contribution to his own losses by the claimant . |
| 9 | And as I said , Mrs Mary she 's the national treasurer and has been for over thirty years . |
| 10 | And has been for over 40 years . |
| 11 | But this is my dwelling place and has been for nearly four months now . |
| 12 | For some time the weapons states have maintained that the peaceful trade in peaceful atoms has been for purely peaceful purposes . |
| 13 | In recent years the alpine trend has been for less adventurous climbing : bolted instant classics from climbers ' such as Michel Piola — safe rock routes with a savage backdrop . |
| 14 | Why his Lordship should have concluded that the facts did not give rise to the issue is unclear , but subsequent events have shown that the decision has been of much greater importance for the scope of the right of public meeting than his Lordship imagined it would be . |
| 15 | She spoke with the air of an old warrior who has been in so many battles that bravery has become commonplace . |
| 16 | Whilst colleges continue to offer HCIMA courses by part-time , block release and in special cases full-time study , by far the greatest development has been in more flexible study modes using the distance learning , self-study packs . |
| 17 | I do n't think he 'd been for about six month . |
| 18 | I 'd been of less practical help , but Terry had encouraged me to make general criticisms of the scheme . |
| 19 | and erm I was feeling ill at the time and I , I wondered why because he 'd been through so much suffering , you know , it was a happy release . |
| 20 | I 'd been through so many rehearsals of this moment in London . |
| 21 | We 'd been on surprisingly good terms up till then . |
| 22 | I 'd been in there four months and they came and told me they 'd gone to America . |
| 23 | Parliament , it was said , could not have intended , despite the clearly expressed intention to the contrary , to have given the exclusion so limited an operation , for that would have been of very little assistance to the police . |
| 24 | Such an undertaking must have been of very little value . |
| 25 | Cause of death would have been of purely academic interest to the deceased man 's widow . |
| 26 | The player 's display would have been of as much interest to the watching Celtic manager , Liam Brady , as the distressing form of his opponents on Saturday . |
| 27 | If the walls belong to the cella , the surrounding portico walls could have been of much slighter construction , even to carry columns 12 ft high . |
| 28 | Therefore , if we had taken our cue from these public styles , we would have produced a top-heavy account that would have been of only marginal importance to the social ‘ life ’ of the speech community . |
| 29 | There are other problems , apart from the fact that Harrison 's evidence dates from 1790 and if there was a regular working pattern in Bristol it may have been of more recent origin than he suggests . |
| 30 | It may have been of more limited scope , for example , ‘ I refuse to have a blood transfusion , so long as there is an effective alternative . ’ |