Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] been [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loneliness and fear and grief had never been like this . |
| 2 | The Chairman of Orkney Island Council Social Work Committee , Councillor Mairhi Trickett denied that any members of her department had ever been to any courses or seminars on the subject of ritual or satanic abuse . |
| 3 | Dancing had never been like this . |
| 4 | No off-worlder has ever been inside any of them , but we are told that there are caverns , vaults within vaults , like those ancient puzzles where ever opened box reveals another , smaller box . |
| 5 | But the party conflict had always been about more than the succession . |
| 6 | The pattern has usually been for such people to establish themselves as privileged representatives of a ‘ god ’ who has the power to punish or destroy those who do not conform to the rules which they , the privileged , have themselves formulated , but have attributed to the ‘ god ’ . |
| 7 | In a community like this the printed word has always been of more importance than to most of those whose access to books was very much easier . |
| 8 | Among them are a surprising ( or is it ? ) number of aeroplanes bearing Cayman Islands letters , many of which I 'll bet have never been near that tax ; haven , the late Cap'n Bob 's pair of liquidator-awaiting , Bermudan-registered Gulfstreams , appropriately VR-BOB and VR-BRM , and a host of N-numbered machines which no doubt the Gatwick-based FAA inspectors looking for illegally operated U.S.-registered aircraft will find enlightening . |