Example sentences of "[noun pl] [ex0] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the 11th century , such events had been popular for about 500 years but over the centuries there had been great changes to the ways in which they had been conducted . |
| 2 | In recent months there had been numerous incidents , in Armenia and the disputed Nagorny Karabakh enclave within Armenia , in which Armenian militants ambushed troops and raided police stations to capture weapons [ for worst such incident , in Yerevan in May , see p. 37462 ] . |
| 3 | I understand that during the past 12 months there have been three gas leaks , two in the southern sector and one in the northern sector . |
| 4 | Over the past few months there have been detailed discussions ( which are continuing ) in Brussels over the technical context and allocation of funding for the new workplan . |
| 5 | This section is mainly concerned with the initial stages of rising capital for Eurotunnel but in recent months there have been growing doubts about the financial viability of the project . |
| 6 | In recent decades there have been substantial changes in the family and household experiences of people in Britain , especially in the 1980s . |
| 7 | In the last three decades there has been considerable success for auctioneering , both in terms of money and also in prestige . |
| 8 | In November 1940 , the master reported that in the previous four weeks there had been 93 admissions , plus 12 patients from the Services and 170 evacuees from London hospitals . |
| 9 | During the previous weeks there had been fine weather , and after a day in the office Paul would keep his mother company in the evenings for a little while , then , as they had nothing to say to one another , he would tell her he was going out for a breath of air . |
| 10 | But for the past few days there had been continuous rain , and the forecast was for more bad weather to come . |
| 11 | In previous days there had been violent clashes between students and police , which left 47 people wounded in Bamako , and there were reports of similar incidents in Gao , Sevare and Mopti . |
| 12 | Since those early days there have been many sea chases with much bigger things at stake , but broadly speaking the same rules apply , although it is sometimes difficult to be dispassionate where hard drugs are concerned . |
| 13 | In recent days there 's been increasing evidence that the European countries , including Britain , are extremely disturbed about this . |
| 14 | Over the years there had been many tributes to her beauty and her dancing , but the one I particularly treasure appeared only recently . |
| 15 | One set of 10 pellets was left on a dry ledge against a south facing wall , and after two years there had been some erosion of the surfaces of the pellets but the pellets were still largely intact . |
| 16 | The divisions were given the go-ahead for construction five years in advance of the anticipated need for capacity , but during the previous three years there had been detailed consultations between headquarters and the divisions , about the power requirements , about the site , and about the design and layout of the proposed plant . |
| 17 | In recent years there had been considerable debate about the nature of the railways ' contribution to economic growth . |
| 18 | During the interwar years there had been several proposals for something that would go beyond this to involve governments , and in 1938 the idea of a Nordic Council had been proposed by Denmark . |
| 19 | During these years there had been routine protests in places like the United Nations , which France ignored , and around the island of Moruroa itself involving the Greenpeace organisation . |
| 20 | The report points out that over the past two years there have been international hotel mergers and acquisitions worth $8.8b ( £5.5b ) . |
| 21 | Over the years there have been innumerable accidents and incidents caused by the airbrakes opening in flight . |
| 22 | One further point : the actuarial profession is firmly egalitarian and for many years there have been equal opportunities for women . |
| 23 | Over the past few years there have been many reports in the national press advocating that all dwellings should be fitted with smoke detectors . |
| 24 | Over the years there have been many studies of the effects of smoking on gastric secretion . |
| 25 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |
| 26 | Over the years there have been many modifications in an attempt to simplify the tendering procedure and improve the difficulties of administration . |
| 27 | In the past 10 years there have been many suggestions of an increased incidence of cancer , or of clusters of cases , in the vicinity of nuclear installations . |
| 28 | Over the past 15 years there have been great advances towards an ordinary life in the community for people with learning difficulties : the growth of ordinary housing ; the development of employment and education opportunities ; steps towards integration in the community and more flexible support services ; and the mushrooming of self-advocacy . |
| 29 | Over the last ten years there have been major changes in the employment structure of British society . |
| 30 | For the past number of years there have been severe cutbacks in the housing budget . |