Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’ |
| 2 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 3 | At present the advent of the All Blacks is concentrating the national rugby mind wonderfully and all four provinces have been in early-season action . |
| 4 | Foreigners are flooding the market — in the last three weeks alone , six Norwegians have been to Premier League clubs on trial . |
| 5 | Your lads have been over this place with a fine-tooth comb . |
| 6 | American bond yields have been at 20-year lows , and shares are expensive . |
| 7 | ‘ Previously the losses have been through voluntary redundancies or retirements , losing some of our most experienced officers . |
| 8 | One important application for Markov models has been in automatic speech recognition ( ASR ) in which a speech signal is modelled as a probabilistic function of a ( hidden ) Markov chain . |
| 9 | How texts achieve their effects has been of particular significance in the teaching of literature , including drama . |
| 10 | The exercise of these duties has been at all times , and remains , subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 11 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 12 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 13 | They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things . |
| 14 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 15 | It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother . |
| 16 | Two-thirds were in less-developed countries , whereas five years previously about half the world 's known HIV infections had been in developed countries ( mostly in the USA ) . |
| 17 | It is difficult to assess exactly how important such credit effects have been in this recession . |
| 18 | In their centenary year of nineteen eight eight they won the league and cup double , but since then honours have been in short supply . |
| 19 | Fire crews have been at full stretch dealing with flooded houses mainly in the Cotswolds . |
| 20 | The Garlands have been in this game for eighty years — accumulating , not spending . |
| 21 | Fortunately , not all recent pub refurbishments have been in this vein . |
| 22 | The application of the spreading technique to oocytes has been of enormous benefit , just as in spermatocytes , in revealing intimate detail of pairing and other configurations at meiotic prophase . |
| 23 | As well as this , the trend over the past few years has been towards greater accountability from business in the form of information about matters other than profit and loss . |
| 24 | At every C&P plant there is concern about energy conservation but emphasis in recent years has been on improving product quality — something which often uses more energy without increasing output . |
| 25 | The ‘ ship ’ is therefore dwarfed by the size of the ocean which is post-school education and training ; moreover it is an ocean which over the last ten or so years has been in unprecedented turmoil culminating in the hurricane represented by the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , governments have come to accept the extravagant version as a taboo , and , like many such myths , its influence over the years has been in inverse proportion to its constitutional validity . |
| 27 | Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later . |
| 28 | That is precisely where we have been , which is why so many of the decisions reached in the past two days have been on British initiatives that have been accepted across the whole of Europe . |
| 29 | Certainly the solutions to the ‘ black problem ’ of the past 200 years have been of limited vision — hostile , intolerant and frequently brutal . |
| 30 | The trend of things had been for agricultural land to go out of production because it was easier to earn a living working in Israel . |