Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we deserved it because that was one of the finest team performances I 've ever been involved with . |
| 2 | ‘ That was one of the finest team performances I 've ever been involved with ’ Gavin Hastings |
| 3 | Many , for example , talked about the gangs they had once been involved in but these gangs , if they remained at all , were not , as one Town Boy said , ‘ a shadow of what they used to be ’ . |
| 4 | For months it had apparently been common knowledge ; something to be tutted over and discussed in hushed tones that stopped abruptly whenever she entered the common-room . |
| 5 | ‘ Against us , Wales played him to the hilt , but then again the Scots themselves have never been slow to play to the referee , ’ states Best who is in Scotland for coaching sessions with five schools ( Madras , Morrison 's , Watson 's , Berwickshire High and Glasgow High ) and Edinburgh University last night , all arranged by his firm , Rugby Travel . |
| 6 | The dams themselves have long been disused . |
| 7 | By touring South Africa , one third of tour proceeds will be spent on developing rugby in those areas which had previously been disadvantaged . |
| 8 | Areas which had previously been central to the stealing networks were affected . |
| 9 | In Portadown and Cookstown , RUC officers were driven out of their homes in areas which had once been safe because they were loyalist . |
| 10 | At school leaving age , parents who had previously been able to cope with a child attending or possibly boarding at a special school are faced with the continuing prospect of full time life with their mentally handicapped son or daughter who may be unable to find a place in a training centre or enter full time education . |
| 11 | At the time of my visits there had already been considerable changes in terms of staffing and resources in line with advisers ' recommendations . |
| 12 | In many rural areas it has therefore been usual for local farm workers to work on the land ‘ man and boy ’ . |
| 13 | In 1847 Darby and other Brethren who had previously been critical , both of his eschatology and his authoritarian style of leadership , accused Newton of Christological heresy . |
| 14 | It is also empowering for groups who have long been powerless , downgraded , humiliated , patronised , deskilled and diminished to discover the strength of concerted action for themselves and on their own behalf . |
| 15 | The widespread power cuts to factories which had then been necessary had caused nearly 15 per cent of the UK workforce to be laid off and were estimated to have cost some £200 millions of vital production . |
| 16 | This is because the process of planning has no alternative to that of moving continually forward and , in that movement , applying methods and ideas which have previously been untried . |
| 17 | The Westernizers and Slavophiles who had hitherto been able to voice their opinions only with extreme caution embarked upon a deliberate policy of circulating handwritten memoranda . |
| 18 | For two years she had hardly been sane . |
| 19 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 20 | Obviously people who are merely going through a bad patch ( anxiety state ) are easier to assist in the process of change , because they have greater resources , than individuals who have always been anxious ( anxiety trait ) . |
| 21 | In these appeals we have only been concerned with the obligation to give the contemnor this written record , but in most of the reported cases there have been other breaches of procedures in addition to a breach of this nature . |
| 22 | So far over the two days there have only been five sub par rounds out of the 186 played . |
| 23 | In recent years there have certainly been dramatic moves to open sport up to the forces of the market . |
| 24 | In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics . |
| 25 | The only two dates I have ever been able to remember are the date of my birth and 1066 , the year that William the Conqueror first visited England . |
| 26 | ‘ I met with it ’ , Gould recalled , ‘ in various parts of New South Wales , and on the plains of the interior , still it is by no means abundant , and persons who had long been resident in the colony knew little about it . |
| 27 | After completing the questionnaires , Susan felt that working in a library would not only fit her answers but was one of the things she 'd always been interested in doing . |
| 28 | They are constantly looking for these changes , especially in situations which have previously been difficult . |
| 29 | Strangely , she felt more resentful of this lady 's peremptory commands than she ever had of those of the merchants ' wives she had previously been obliged to swallow . |
| 30 | By means of the co-operatives patients who had previously been subject to institutional peonage — payment of token wages in exchange for hospital work — have been able to earn wages comparable with those in the wider economy . |