Example sentences of "[vb base] been [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm now up to a thirty four B and I 've been a thirty four B ever since then . |
| 2 | ‘ For the past three years I 've been a respectable married man , young lady . |
| 3 | John Elsley spoke for many booksellers up and down the country : ‘ Unemployment and the fear of unemployment have been a major adverse factor , during the year and particularly in the period up to Christmas . ’ |
| 4 | Of his education little is known but it seems likely that his family engaged a private tutor for him — he may have also have been a private fee-paying pupil at the West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter . |
| 5 | There have been a great many studies of market failures which provide an a priori case for Intervention — welfare economics texts such as Broadway and Bruce ( 1984 ) or summary chapters in books such as Varian ( 1978 ) will serve . |
| 6 | It is not surprising , for there have been a great many developments aimed at putting more carp on the bank . |
| 7 | Should there have been a better on-site fire squad ? |
| 8 | There would , indeed , have been a good economic case for some sharing of the burdens between Boards , since all benefited from standardisation though some incurred larger costs than others . |
| 9 | I have been a lifelong Labour supporter , but I have to say that under the present Government I was able to save in my last years at work without seeing my savings disappear in inflation . |
| 10 | Three All Black thrashings have been a cross Welsh rugby has had to bear alone , as in the same period , since June 1987 , this is three times more than any other home country has had to bear . |
| 11 | There have been a few uneasy ripples around the cricket fields of Glamorgan this season , of course . |
| 12 | There have been a few hostile bids , most notably that by Paribas for a conglomerate , Navigation Mixte . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , there have been a few more hurdles since then . |
| 14 | THERE HAVE been a few tactical errors made in the winter lists of new rugby books . |
| 15 | Apart from the scholarships granted by DGX ( see article on heritage ) there have been no other specific measures . |
| 16 | There have been no other significant events affecting the Group since the year end . |
| 17 | The problem for would-be physiological psychologists is that until relatively recently there have been no other natural phenomena or man-made devices that we understand better than human behaviour that could act as a model or analogy . |
| 18 | Although alcohol is undoubtedly excreted in the urine and could theoretically act as an inflammatory agent in a case of urethritis , it is probably enough to reduce alcohol intake rather than cut it out altogether — there have been no convincing scientific trials to show that alcohol consumption delays resolution of urethritis . |
| 19 | It is not that they are not capable of competing ; it is simply that there have been no great black performers in these areas in history ( due to lack of opportunities and facilities ) and no tradition exists . |
| 20 | Medical therapy of diarrhoea caused by chronic radiation enteritis has been largely empirical and there have been no adequate controlled studies . |
| 21 | There have been no fundamental technical problems . |
| 22 | However , there have been an estimated 900 crimes against tourists in Dublin this year and the growing popularity of the city as an upmarket destination during its year as the European City of Culture has unfortunately attracted a hard core of criminals . |
| 23 | the burgeoning suspicion that his commitment has been in vain , must , as Anita Mason depicts , have been an appalling psychological torment . |
| 24 | You will not dispute , I presume , that Mr Marshall of Charleville House and Mr Lane of Bridewood have been the two great butlers of recent times . |
| 25 | As the most advanced part of the French colonial empire Vietnam in 1945 might , perhaps , by a sort of inductive leap , have been the first French colony to become independent . |
| 26 | Since that time , interest rates have increased and there have been the well publicised problems in the sector . |
| 27 | ‘ These have been the best two weeks of my life . |
| 28 | Since the disease is heterosexually transmitted in Africa , the group which has come in for the most blame for its rapid spread have been the many poor women who have been supporting themselves in Nairobi through commercial sex . |
| 29 | While the institutions rushing for the exit have been the small British firms , the institutions entering these markets — in addition to a number of major British banks — have been the comparatively enormous foreign houses . |
| 30 | The E. Walters clothing factories have been the second biggest employers in the north Herefordshire town of Kington for the past thirty years . |