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

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1 An increasing number of women , perhaps career women in their 30s who have been regular Pill users for several years , may wish to check if they are ovulating before planning the timing of a pregnancy .
2 Whereas in 1972 there had been 462 persons employed in the catching sector , this had declined to 217 by 1982 .
3 Since Normanton ( 1971 ) wrote this there have been important moves to improve the information provided by local authorities , though Tomkins ( 1977 ) points out that the standards of reports vary , some being elaborate while others are simply extracts from the accounts .
4 Despite this there have been long-standing assumptions that management is the same as administration .
5 Concerning this there has been much speculation .
6 In 1885 there had been 402 members ; in 1903 there were 1,248 .
7 Between 1972 and 1985 there had been significant energy savings in OECD countries .
8 I 'm afraid there 's been some sort of coup mounted .
9 Since it was signed on January 29th there have been two massacres , with a total of at least 30 people killed .
10 Since 1979 there has been some contraction of nationalized industries .
11 Since 1979 there has been fresh emphasis on the need to roll back the frontiers of the state .
12 To be honest it 's been seven months of hell .
13 Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day .
14 In 1920 there had been six London evenings .
15 In 1940 and 1941 there had been few links between Free France and the clandestine movements in France .
16 In 1969 there had been major changes in the value of the German mark and French franc which threatened to damage EEC internal trade .
17 Sir Anthony goes on : ‘ The information I have been given by the joint liquidators of BCGM [ the British fund ] and BCI [ in Gibraltar ] indicates that in the period up to December 1984 there had been frequent movements of money or securities between the United Kingdom funds and the Jersey funds and , most important of all , that at December 1984 the gilt-edged securities and cash held for the Jersey funds were at least some £3.65 million less than the funds ’ obligations to investors .
18 Since 1984 there have been constant campaigns alerting the public in Thailand to the dangers of HIV , AIDS , and sexually transmitted diseases .
19 And since the mid-1990s there have been more prison riots in Britain than in any other European country .
20 In parish churches , however , there was a long period of stagnation , although there were improvements in standards and taste , and until the time of Vatican II there had been few developments in the Liturgy and its music .
21 So far , however , the crofters in the Western Isles have preferred to purchase only the house sites and pass on their rights to their families , although in other areas where the land is better there has been greater interest in purchasing whole crofts .
22 In 1913 there had been 59,400 km. of navigable internal waterways , but this was reduced to 53,900 by 1922 , a relatively small decline compared with the railways .
23 Since 1976 there has been great erosion of respect for local government .
24 Between 1961 and 1976 there have been 14 records : in January ( two ) , March ( four ) , April ( two ) , May ( one ) , August ( three ) , September ( one ) , and November ( one ) .
25 In July 1916 there had been 978,112 state pensioners ; by 1924 there were 916,771 , over 61,000 fewer .
26 most of us had eaten our lunch by then on the coach because we were so hungry , after all it had been seven hours since we had last eaten .
27 The light over No. 6 which has been burning night and day for 2 months , now operates as it should — from dusk to dawn .
28 Now in America , through the nineteen seventies and eighties there 's been increasing concern , an increasing concern that the states were becoming more and more dependent on the federal government and these figures suggest that there was good reasons , this was one of Ronald Reagan 's campaign themes , this was a g a growing concern , he said the federal system has been shattered , it 's , it 's changed its character , the states are now dependent on the federal government and this is dreadful and we must , we must change this .
29 To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power .
30 In the days prior to the opening of the GPC meeting on July 13 there had been unprecedented criticism of the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al-Kadhafi , in the state-controlled media .
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