Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] been [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No-one has been on this path for two days . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But when you look at the legislation , which has been in many ways draconian for the situation which exists today , you have great difficulty in saying who is and who is not under the age of 16 . |
| 3 | The dissidents who resigned from his ‘ cabinet ’ look ominously like a vanguard of the fundamentalist persuasion which has been in some abeyance since the defeat of Jim Sillars . |
| 4 | No. 9 has been on the parent line at Brecon operating Santa Specials , but all that has been seen out in Aberystwyth has been the diesel which has been out most weekdays on engineers ' trains . |
| 5 | She then moved to Bristol City Council where she has been for some months . |
| 6 | As Elisabeth , Rosalind Plowright sounded more secure than she has been for some time on British stages and sang her last aria with true Verdian pathos and passion . |
| 7 | She has been in this hospital room since February waiting for her heart-lung swap . |
| 8 | Apparently she 's been off all week . |
| 9 | She 's been through that process once , and it seems that she 'll stay immune to further absorption . |
| 10 | She 's had it ever since she 's been in that house . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Mrs Hilali , who 's been in this resort in Turkey for most of this year , has now been charged by Turkish police with possessing hashish and pornographic videos , along with Philip Baker her adopted son . |
| 12 | The structure was there and I think anybody who 's been in this business for any number of years , some of us have been in it longer than others er know that you actually need a structure er of that , of that little . |
| 13 | erm Listeners will probably know that there has been for many years what 's called the Schools Council , which has looked at erm curriculum matters and examination matters , and a year or so ago it was decided to discontinue the Schools Council , and to replace it by two successor committees , one the School Curriculum Development Committee , which you 've already mentioned and which I chair , and a parallel committee concerned with examinations , the School Examination , sorry the Secondary Examination Council , which is chaired by a mathematician , Sir Wilfred Cockroft . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It has to be said that there has been for some years within the Labour Party something of a class divide — a working-class element resentful of a middle-class takeover by lawyers and the like . |
| 16 | There has been for some time in Africa debate concerning the suitability for the Eucharist of wheat bread and grape wine . |
| 17 | In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ . |
| 18 | There has been in this sense de-differentiation in the postmodernist attempt to drain the aura from the work of art . |
| 19 | Youngest works foreman there 's been around these parts . |
| 20 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 21 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 22 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |
| 23 | Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night . |
| 24 | The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months . |
| 25 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 26 | Will discussion of reform then be remitted , as it has been on several occasions from 1916 onwards , to a Speaker 's Conference ? |
| 27 | The Heart of Wales Line is now under greater threat than it has been for many years , because of financial pressures from British Rail in general and Regional Railways in particular . |
| 28 | However , the truth of the matter is that the Scottish economy is in a better state now than it has been for many years and is continuing to thrive . |
| 29 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years , ’ Mrs Smith said . |
| 30 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years . |