Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] been [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A straight , imposing avenue was required to link the palace with the north-south axis of roads which had been Bucharest 's traditional main line of communication .
2 Victim or victimisation studies are designed to investigate the number of individuals who have been victims of crime .
3 Similarly , parents of children who have been victims of sexual offences may not want their child to be interrogated and to go through the trauma of reliving the experience in court .
4 In other respects , the Declaration settled a number of issues which had been points of contention between the Crown and Parliament , and settled them in Parliament 's favour .
5 For years there has been talk of building a road and railway along the shore to link Aswan with Wadi Halfa , the first town inside Sudan .
6 For years there have been complaints that our school system leads inexorably to too narrow a specialization , especially in the sixth form .
7 Local people mutter and march , make speeches and throw things ; staff face sarcasm in nearby pubs ; and for years there have been demands for a public inquiry .
8 As patients who have been stone free for >nine months constitute a low risk group for recurrence ( see below ) , the apparently lower recurrence rate in the chenodeyxholic acid treated patients may be an artefact .
9 The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis ( Cedar , £5.99 ) sets out a self-help programme for women who 've been victims of incest .
10 Advocates of a return to gold still remain , and at times there have been proposals to consider reinstating it as the key reserve asset in the international monetary system .
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