Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Your lads have been over this place with a fine-tooth comb . |
| 3 | The exercise of these duties has been at all times , and remains , subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 4 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 5 | They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things . |
| 6 | It is difficult to assess exactly how important such credit effects have been in this recession . |
| 7 | The Garlands have been in this game for eighty years — accumulating , not spending . |
| 8 | Fortunately , not all recent pub refurbishments have been in this vein . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Impressive as its successes have been in such matters as the unravelling of the genetic code , nevertheless they represent only an infinitesimal step towards a complete account in conventional physical terms of even the simplest animal brain . |
| 11 | Strictly speaking , marriage does not contribute directly to population change , but , because of its association with the legitimacy of births in most countries , marriage rates have been of some interest . |
| 12 | The development of study skills was implicitly or explicitly part of every proposal made for inclusion in the ESSE/L Project , and as we have seen , the major thrust of recent inservice developments has been in this area . |
| 13 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |
| 14 | People who died of cancer were less likely than those dying from other causes to have been in such homes , 7 per cent against 29 per cent . |
| 15 | A disgruntled father whose two sons have been on several skiing fortnights feels school trips are run primarily for the teachers ' convenience . |
| 16 | To date , three cases have been through this process . |
| 17 | Had a case of a claim by a child for damages for pre-natal injury come before the English courts in the period from 1972 to the enactment of the Act of 1976 , and had it been as well argued as the present cases have been in this court , I have no doubt that the English court would have been referred to Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 and Duval v. Seguin , 26 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 418 and would have preferred the views there expressed to Walker v. Great Northern Railway . |