Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] [adj] [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been for some years a basic agreement that the parliamentary salary should be sufficient to prevent MPs feeling the need to seek supplementary income . |
| 2 | Bob Gunnell , of course , is an was and has been for some time a very supportive member of South East Arts and active in many of its committees . |
| 3 | There has been in recent years a steady increase in the number of courses in ‘ bilingual training for business people ’ . |
| 4 | There has been in past years a steady requirement for 4BA nuts . |
| 5 | Probably , for we later read that ‘ want of opportunity has been in some respect a prejudice to my business ’ , and , ‘ the noble act of embalming has been entirely ruined by the undertakers ’ . |
| 6 | With the company rejecting this request , the workers have gone on strike … while the strike has been in full swing a second union has been organized by 800 workers under the auspices of Zenro [ right-wing union federation ] with a new slogan of ‘ immediate acceptance of dismissals and reopening of production ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 8 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |
| 9 | Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough . |
| 10 | According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force . |
| 11 | " Yes , " said Clara , beginning to understand the nature of her mother 's satisfaction ; the lack of telephone of Mrs Hanney had been for some years a subject for discourse in a vein of amazed contempt . |
| 12 | According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun . |
| 13 | When you 've been around those guys a lot , you notice that they 're performers and that they perform for you . |
| 14 | ‘ Look , we have been on this world a matter of a few days . |
| 15 | The Faroe Islands are self-governing , but have been for many years a colony of Denmark , and still rely on the government of the old mother country for international representation . |
| 16 | ‘ I have been in this game a lifetime and wonder in what direction it is going and where it will all end up . |
| 17 | I have been in this city a week today . |