Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’
2 She now bent forward towards him and said under her breath , ‘ I 've been married five years , Charles , and I 've been five times pregnant .
3 I should mention that Merlyn and I have been parliamentary colleagues and friends for nearly 20 years , since he was elected by the same people of south Leeds who had sent Hugh Gaitskell to the House of Commons .
4 What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on .
5 The A423 is one of the busiest roads in the region and there 've been many accidents .
6 He was probably mixed up in disposing of the pictures stolen in that big robbery from the Duke of Suffolk 's place , and there 've been other things .
7 It was a full week before they reappeared in The Bar ; we had n't seen them for six nights and there had been much discussion .
8 Ironically , it was a track which Lauda had always opposed on safety grounds and there had been much discussion about the Ring 's lack of safeguards and medical access ( the track is so long , – kilometres , that marshals and safety equipment were not only widely scattered but often whole stretches of the track , such as that where Niki 's car went off , could not be seen from any marshal 's post ) .
9 Earlier she had played Juliet ; and there had been much adulation showered on her by the public and the newspapers .
10 Most of the inhabitants had probably escaped into the night , and there had been little killing , although a number of women undoubtedly had been caught and forced to pay the price of conquest .
11 Dr Kelleher had been working in close cooperation with Dr Laurent and there had been long consultations in the Pathology Lab .
12 She did not know what sort of oddness to imagine , but they had been a long time and there had been peculiar noises .
13 Tutorial Classes continued to be seen as the most important element in the WEA 's programme and there had been some increase in their provision in recent years .
14 He was the product of an actual family experience ; his father had fought for the South in the Civil War and there had been some decline from gentility , but he was as much a product of family myth .
15 The invasion threats , which had seemed so immediate in 1948–49 , had subsided and there had been fewer incidents on the parallel .
16 Not until the anonymous informant had rung again on 4 August and there had been more calls to Lawrence , and they had finally made contact with John Lewis , did the Panel begin to find out what had really happened .
17 The shipyards , the traditional industry , had closed and there had been widespread unemployment .
18 The spot was clearly a favourite one with the crew and there had been several men dozing there when Owen and Mahmoud had appeared .
19 Explosives were found in nearly all of the latter and there had been twenty fires in them between 1 November and 26 December 1921 .
20 Violence had broken out , and there had been anti-Catholic riots in Belfast .
21 And there had been careful consultation with residents and their families .
22 And there 'd been this picture of a human lying down , with what looked like nomes tying it up with hundreds of ropes .
23 In the modern world , democracy has often been perceived by liberals as a threat or potential threat to individual freedom , and there have been many warnings about the tyranny of the majority and the tyranny of public opinion .
24 We have been aware for some years that the relational model and relational database systems have not been able to represent some real-world concepts and activities , and there have been many papers and conferences devoted to the study of extensions and refinements to the original model of Codd ( 1970 ) .
25 This is only a temporary solution and there have been many attempts to organise more humane working systems .
26 The European Court has powers of judicial review over Commission decisions , and there have been many appeals to the Court against the decisions of DGIV .
27 And there have been two burglaries in Bicester ; last night a Ford truck was stolen and ten and a half thousand pounds ' worth of roofing was stolen from a roofing supply store .
28 The very idea of the ‘ comprador bourgeoisie , ’ central to the dependency approach , appears to have fallen into disuse in recent years and there have been various attempts to reconceptualize what it refers to .
29 erm I think in fact it would be better to ask Mr Bailey to explain what his concerns were erm I 'd just like to say first although initially it revolves around problems of drinking , I 'm looking at other issues of East Oxford , in that recently there 's been a great deal of concern about glue sniffing in sections there , and there have been various letters from residents in the local newspapers , and I think there 's a general level of problem for people living in East Oxford , and it 's not just that the people there want the streets cleaned up or whatever , they want something constructive and helpful to be done for people .
30 It is rumoured that the project is backed by an international mining consortium and there have been recent reports of attempts to enlist Yanomami from the area for military service .
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