Example sentences of "[noun sg] [ex0] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Thus on one side there had been complete effacement of party activities , while on the other they ran forward unresisted .
2 As a result there have been real achievements : hundreds of thousands of workers have been trained to work in rural areas and attack fatal conditions like dehydration from diarrhoea ( still the main killer of young children worldwide ) with the simplest and cheapest remedies .
3 As a result there has been bitter criticism of the local authorities and much disappointment among the disabled and their families .
4 However , despite a varied programme there has been great difficulty in gathering support for the other functions and indeed the last one had to be cancelled .
5 During this probationary term there have been two training Saturdays in South London and a residential weekend in Buckinghamshire .
6 During the winter there had been near-continual snow and rain , then in late March there was a week of mad blustering winds , with racing cloud and fitful sun .
7 During the session there had been some debate over the selection of the ministers of finance and foreign affairs .
8 In my village there had been historic upheaval over such questions as whether it was right that hymns should be sung in the House of God .
9 Though recent instruments like the new SZ zoom stereos are designed to be readily fitted to a range of different equipment there has been increasing demand in recent years for custom equipment and his has led to customer specific modular configurations for individual projects .
10 I happen for my sins to have been shadow Chancellor since the last election in 1987 , during which period there have been three Chancellors of the Exchequer .
11 And he added : ‘ If I were an American , I would be saying thank goodness there have been some musicals to keep Broadway alive for the last 10 years . ’
12 Prior to the meeting there had been much speculation that Shamir would face a challenge at the meeting ; in the event even Sharon urged the party to unite behind Shamir .
13 None the less , since antiquity there have been many efforts to describe features of the world , including the social , in quantitative terms , efforts which began to assume an even greater urgency and consequentiality with the rise of the modern nation state and its requirements for an accurate accounting of its resources .
14 For some years after the War there had been severe power cuts in winter , when demand reached its peak , because of shortages of both power station capacity and coal to burn in the plant that was available .
15 In the fifty years since the TA was last called up for war there have been many changes .
16 Since the Second World War there have been many changes in official policies toward , and social assumptions concerning , the control and treatment of crime and offenders .
17 In that-place there had been intricate gardens , where water wheels turned musically and water lilies bloomed moon-white , and giant goldfish floated under them .
18 In Western art there had been artistic programmes and manifestos before Impressionism , but in the twentieth century they proliferated .
19 Now we have n't , erm talking about er cars as to other forms of transport and on the whole there 's been more complaints about the public transport than they have about cars , but you surely do n't think or maybe you do , I mean what 's bad about cars ? ,
20 For more than a decade there had been detailed debate in the industry on the best form of securing greater coordination of distribution .
21 In the last decade there have been dramatic developments in the treatment of infertility and artificial reproductive techniques .
22 Over the past decade there has been enormous progress in our understanding of how cells use calcium to regulate their activity .
23 Earlier that day there had been dramatic scenes in Tirana 's central Skanderbeg Square as protesters toppled a huge statue of Enver Hoxha , Albania 's hardline Stalinist leader from 1944 until his death in 1985 .
24 That night there had been much wine at dinner and Flavia , though far from drunk , felt warmed , free .
25 Before the General Election there had been some talk of revising Crime Has No Boundaries , after Quintin Hogg had written to Heath calling for a ‘ refurbishment ’ of policies towards crime .
26 In the Galloway there has been strong discrimination against red , to the extent that red animals have been falsely maligned as ‘ poor doers ’ , and today the red varieties probably have Devon , South Devon , Red Poll or Shorthorn blood .
27 Notwithstanding problems of this kind there has been undoubted improvement in VDU design and it has been speculated that trade union pressure for high design standards has been a major stimulus to companies marketing their products on the basis of user acceptability . "
28 In addition there have been significant decreases in fertility over the same period .
29 In the area of assessment there has been considerable debate in recent years among Catholic teachers .
30 Of course there had been many Christmas parties after Maman went away , Aunt Tossie saw to that — but they were not memorable .
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