Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [been] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Both split suddenly with clubs where they 'd been successful — Clough from Derby County in an almighty uproar , Dalglish from Liverpool in a still unsolved mystery .
2 Within a month Wilson saw with her own eyes that she had been right .
3 Public opinion is growing too large for the channels that it has been accustomed to run through . ’
4 It 's thanks to a hefty sponsorship package from Village Homes that he has been able to make the move after only one full season of FF1600 racing in Ireland .
5 Two Cellophane-wrapped sprays that she had been unable to deliver were lying on the bouquet of roses she had prepared for her rival .
6 The old tricks should be left alone , because the reality of it is that when I go on tour in a couple of months , I 'm going to be playing all these songs and I 've been careful never to repeat past compositional techniques .
7 There was no family history of haemolytic crises and he had been healthy until December 1991 , when he was found to have antibodies to HIV-1 .
8 I 've had a long life and many blessings and you 've been one of the best .
9 It is open to any local education authority to tilt its scheme towards primary schools and I have been encouraging local education authorities , where appropriate , to revise their schemes with precisely that aim .
10 The Book of Remembering was for remembering the animals but they had been dead for twenty thousand years .
11 The critics were less sure , however , and there were some doubts whether he had been able to combine his apparent religious intentions with the format of a conventional Shaftesbury Avenue entertainment .
12 Additionally , if you have received treatment or advice for a medical condition during the 2 years before taking up the Hospital Income Plan , your cover for the condition commences after you have been insured for 24 months or if you are admitted to hospital for that condition during this period then as soon after the 24 months as you have been free of in-patient treatment for 12 months .
13 They precept on the constituent district councils and they receive direct grant from Government and the problems encountered in Derbyshire where the county council reduced the budget approved by the police authority have been quite eliminated and that My Lords is the only reasons that I have been able to trace so far for amending the law as this Bill proposes .
14 The Red Poll 's greatest successes overseas are in Jamaica , Brazil and other Latin American countries where it has been instrumental in the creation of types bred for local conditions , such as the Jamaica Red , Pitangueiras ( Brazil ) , La Velasquez ( Colombia ) , Senepol ( US Virgin Islands ) and possibly the Romosinuano ( Colombia ) .
15 This is consistent with the hydrogen-bonding scheme of the tetrad ( Fig. 1b ) , and all other base associations that we have been able to devise are not consistent with all the data .
16 And much of the concerns that we 've been able to express about the Health Service has been as a direct consequence of us having information as to for example the numbers of bed closures , as for example the numbers of people on waiting lists .
17 But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit .
18 Why these particular prints stand out in my opinion from so many produced for the tourists of the time , is because the artist has not just reproduced his drawings on to plates but he has been able to produce marks that are alive and work within the context of the print .
19 Children who did not want to grow up haunted Kensington gardens because they had been happy there .
20 The real problems which undrained land presents to farmers have justified drainage during periods when we have been short of food .
21 ‘ My mission is to take back to Ramsey such alms as I have been able to gain , at least by the goodwill of Worcester and Evesham .
22 they 've had they 've been out two days on bikes , borrowed John 's children 's bikes and bikes and they 've been all round
23 seventy five degrees I mean , and it was really cold and when we got back it was cold as well , it 's only the last four weeks that we 've been able to use the outdoor pools again
24 We 're trying at the moment to get in Nonconformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that erm that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisations that they 've been involved in or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county , we 're always very grateful to receive .
25 The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice .
26 Although not directly connected to the constitutional difficulties being experienced by Canada , McKenna acknowledged the indirect connection when , speaking of the growing co-operation between the four provinces , he admitted that he had " seen more co-operation during the last six months than I 've seen in the last five years that I 've been Premier " .
27 During the twelve years that I 've been head teacher at this school I have waited for promised improvements at the crossroads , and in particular the Lane junction .
28 The GP said that Peter had been to see her many times in the two years that he had been married , with small ailments that seemed to be stress-related .
29 My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary have talked with housing authorities throughout the country in the past few weeks and we have been interested to find out that many local authorities have land banks which they are not prepared to make available to housing associations .
30 I know we 've argued all these years and I 've been irritable , if not downright rude , but … but … ’ and Creggan was astonished to see that this fiercest of eagles was suddenly close to a profound grief and for a few moments quite unable to say anything more .
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