Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On balance , I believe that Britain 's membership of the EEC has been of some benefit in terms of the home market which she has gained and will continue to gain as and when her partners honour their commitments to complete the Single Market ; however , as should be clear from the figures quoted in Chapter 5 , the assertion that EEC membership has been good for Britain is open to question . |
| 2 | Norfolk has been for many years one of our Medau strongholds and it is for this reason that the Society decided to select this prestigious location . |
| 3 | No it 's down there , and in it er I wrote it last night actually when I was feeling pretty fucked off so it 's probably a bit out of order but I wrote to him and said erm tt Josh has been round this evening asking questions about what 's happened with his money erm and I think you 're really out of order . |
| 4 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 5 | It is certainly not true of Arab public opinion which has long ago accepted the ‘ linkage ’ that Washington has been at such pains to discount . |
| 6 | She supposed most normal people in a situation like the one she and Alan had been in all day , would have ended up in bed together , here in this comfortable bed at Rose Cottage . |
| 7 | It 's claimed the night she died , Kim had been to this nightclub near the Champs Elysees and had returned late with a friend and the accused . |
| 8 | But Karen had been on these holidays before . |
| 9 | Buckley has been in this job since 1988 and in the department since 1981 , but she started as a lawyer in private practice , a profession where equality is far more of a reality than in industry . |
| 10 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 11 | In the view of private and public critics of the Wilberforce sons there was more than filiopietism at issue in their charge that Clarkson claimed leadership in the cause when their father was entitled to it ; they suggested Clarkson had been to all intents and purposes a paid agent of the Abolition Committee . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd like to put on record how co-operative Copenhagen have been throughout this affair , ’ said the Linfield chairman . |
| 13 | Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough . |
| 14 | Since the inter-war years , Britain has been for many people an upwardly mobile society , with children from working-class homes winning jobs in the expanding service class . |
| 15 | The work of Norman Shneidman has been of some value in highlighting the way in which sport in Soviet society is ‘ directed towards the all-round development of the human individual ’ ( 1979 , p.7 ) . |
| 16 | Britain 's initial position of support for Cramra had been to all intents and purposes relinquished by the end of the meeting . |
| 17 | ‘ Billy Bingham has been in this position so many times before and come up smiling . |
| 18 | Beryl Davies has been to several meetings of the Shropshire A. S. M. group . |
| 19 | " Yes , " said Clara , beginning to understand the nature of her mother 's satisfaction ; the lack of telephone of Mrs Hanney had been for some years a subject for discourse in a vein of amazed contempt . |
| 20 | Sentencing McPherson , the judge , Lord Cameron , said he accepted that McPherson had been in some part less responsible for the violence to Mr O'Donnell that evening , but added : ‘ Nevertheless you played a full part in luring him into the hands of those who were responsible for repeated acts of a bizarre and terrible character upon him . ’ |
| 21 | Merlin had been in these parts , Joseph Robinson had told him . |
| 22 | … in recent weeks , Bush and Major have been under some pressure from the families of people who died at Lockerbie . |
| 23 | ‘ You never did tell me just exactly what you and Marianne had been to each other in the past . ’ |
| 24 | Instead she asked Stan whether Shildon had been in that night . |
| 25 | At the end of the sixteenth century the ‘ crowned republic ’ of Poland had been in some ways one of the great powers of Europe . |
| 26 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |
| 27 | In stressing this aspect , Marx and Engles were basing themselves in great part on the excellent description that Morgan had supplied for the matrilineal descent groups of the Iroquois , and , in his stress on the community aspect of descent groups , Morgan has been in many ways supported by later work . |