Example sentences of "[unc] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of the campaign , the Green 's Principal Speaker has been in Stroud in Gloucestershire , where the Greens have six local councillors . |
| 2 | Auntie 's exceptional eyesight had been of no particular help to her in her job : she was a filing-clerk in a block of offices , for ever sorting other people 's dull letters and dull memoranda . |
| 3 | The example of Virginia Woolf 's interior monologue has been at least as useful , in this way , as Joyce 's or Dorothy Richardson 's stream of consciousness , most immediately to Rosamond Lehmann and Elizabeth Bowen in the 1930s , as well as to later writers , women perhaps especially , such as Anita Brookner . |
| 4 | Victor Vince , the Company 's General Manager has been with the firm for the past twenty years , Victor served five years in the RAF as an Aircraft Electrician tending to the needs of Bomber Command 's Halifaxes and Lancasters . |
| 5 | And there was no man in the kingdom who knew better than Owen what Hotspur 's disdainful answer had been to the council 's shameful proposal of murder in place of magnanimity . |
| 6 | It was no secret that the couple 's weird relationship had been in trouble for some time . |
| 7 | Her friend 's well-known bluntness had been to the fore a few days ago , when she 'd discovered Laura sobbing quietly in her bedroom . |
| 8 | The days when Miss Logan 's fluent Italian had been of use to them were long past ; having begun the journey as guide and interpreter , she felt she had dwindled into a mere hanger-on , with little greater status than the discarded dragoman or the newly-appointed Kurd . |
| 9 | Now in his third full season with the HB NSR , Bradl 's main change has been from Michelin to Dunlop tyres |
| 10 | George Fox 's original appeal had been to the poor , but soon the Friends were led by the ‘ respectable classes ’ in the same manner as the other early denominations . |
| 11 | The man responsible for tackling Britain 's rising crime has been on the campaign trail in the region today . |
| 12 | Now the erm major contribution has been from the Department of Environment who have pointed us at Humberside 's formulation . |