Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I There 's been some correspondence in the financial papers about the family trusts er and particularly with regard to inheritance tax and so . |
| 2 | AFTER a total of 36 years ' service in the nuclear industry — during which she has been personal secretary to no fewer than three chairmen — Dorothy Ashurst has retired . |
| 3 | On April 29 a church was stoned in Imbabah , another working-class suburb of Cairo and one in which there had been two days of violence by Moslem extremists against Christian churches and shops on Sept. 20-22 , 1991 . |
| 4 | Thus the Preface of the Catalogus Plantarum emphasised correct identification as a prime factor for success both in the nursery and the garden , and the text of the work presented a practical guide , suggesting the best uses for the new trees and shrubs with which there had been little experience . |
| 5 | Malcolm stoically prevented what would have been the first Test hat-trick in England since 1960 , but soon became Waqar 's record 22nd wicket of the series , leaving Smith a gallant 84 not out in four hours of great determination , to finish on the high note upon which he started the series , since which there had been much disappointment . |
| 6 | Negotiations between Israel and Syria , about which there had been some optimism during the sixth and the first part of the seventh round , were largely unproductive . |
| 7 | Although an official inquiry had found in October 1988 that there were no grounds to conclude that the DTI 's handling of the affair had caused the investors ' losses , in his report the Ombudsman had identified five areas in which there had been significant maladministration by the DTI of the Barlow Clowes affair . |
| 8 | His nearest rival in the elections , for which there had been seven candidates in all , was a film producer , Davlar Koudonazarov , who gained only a quarter of the vote , despite being backed by both opposition parties , the Democrats and Islamic Rebirth ( whose own candidate had withdrawn ) . |
| 9 | The crisis has been created by the Government and it provides the context in which there have been tremendous implications for training . |
| 10 | It reached its present form over a long period of time during which there have been numerous law changes — not all of which have achieved their desired result , as Ian Kirkpatrick , Rutherford 's South African counterpart , was the first to point out . |
| 11 | For younger mothers it usually comes as a surprise , an unintended consequence of a past or current sexual relationship , and an event for which there has been little planning or preparation . |
| 12 | Which expands on the Tashi character from The Color Purple in her tale of female circumcision , of which there has been much coverage . |
| 13 | The problem of Britain 's relatively slow rate of growth in the post-war period , compared with other industrial countries and in particular its failure to diversify and innovate competitively , is a very deep rooted one , about which there has been much controversy . |
| 14 | This is a subject over which there has been much controversy . |
| 15 | Thus 1973 marks a major setback from which there has been still-incomplete recovery . |
| 16 | We must study the gap closely and we must realise that , in many of the homes that have come on to the market , on which there has been significant capital outlay by people moving into the private sector , the costs have escalated because of the massive increase in interest rates . |
| 17 | A key concern will be to explore the extent to which there has been structural change in this area . |
| 18 | Or they were the wings of that sweet-faced Gabriel who appears in so many pictures , whose scarlet plumes brush the ceiling of the bedroom in which he has alighted ; whose shadow fills the whole of the bedroom wall , whose robes cover half the bedroom carpet and whose single , beckoning finger silences the virgins of history , making them forget the books which they have been surprised reading , and sends them sinking to their knees . |
| 19 | Much thanks to John and many others in the R Y A who helped with training and preparing er that er expedition and then in the World Disabled Championships in Barcelona , Kevin who has one of our Challenger catamarans , in which he 's been national champion seven times . |
| 20 | The idea that there is free trade in the EEC is in many key sectors of economic activity as misplaced as would be the suggestion that there is a free market in European agricultural products , another sector which it has been British policy to attempt to liberalise . |
| 21 | While declaring undying love for me she 'd been busy making herself a small fortune giving kiss-and-tell interviews to some tabloid rag . ’ |
| 22 | The salad bowls are great to look at , and great to use — they are such a good size compared with the silly little one we 've been crushing lettuce and tomato into for far too long . |
| 23 | It 's written yes well supposedly there there have been many criticisms about it |
| 24 | When Ma had come home from London with her there 'd been great excitement , and Edward and his brother Billy had looked at the mite as if she were a fairy found among the budding snowdrops . |
| 25 | Yeah but I mean the times I 've seen her it 's been this end of town rather than that end of town . |
| 26 | The lad next to me he 'd been three times ! |
| 27 | Josh Gifford , for whom he had been first jockey before his illness and who had assured him that his position as stable jockey would be waiting for him as soon as he had recovered . |
| 28 | Looked as it someone had been practising three-point turns on its chest . ’ |