Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diplomatic relations between the UK and Libya had been broken off since that year . |
| 2 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 3 | Though the morale of the Party faithful had been temporarily resuscitated by Hitler 's rhetoric , it is clear that rhetoric alone was no longer sufficient to restore the confidence of the considerable sections of the population who had only superficially been won over in previous years by the magnitude of Hitler 's seemingly undeniable ‘ achievements ’ and who had suffered irreversible disillusionment since 1941–2 . |
| 4 | As for the social composition of the judiciary , the many surveys that have been carried out in recent years ( see Griffith , 1995 : 25 ) show the overwhelming predominance of upper-class and upper-middle-class backgrounds . |
| 5 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 6 | The financial resources of Abbey National are exceptionally strong and our reserves have been built up over many years through a combination of prudence and innovation . |
| 7 | Our tool kit has been built up over many years and we did n't have to buy much : a long tape measure , a new pickaxe handle , some new screwdriver bits ( we lost one down the cavity ) . |
| 8 | A reputation had been built up over several years for the use of computers in the fields of manpower planning , personnel statistics and other industrial relations applications . |
| 9 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 10 | Several racecourses would like to stage more Sunday meetings but so far no fixtures ( apart from a point-to-point ) have been drawn up for next year . |
| 11 | By now in his eighties , Yusuf would never again return to Spain — he too had been worn down by long years of struggle to remove the thorn of El Cid from his side . |
| 12 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 13 | One of Napier 's longest-running courses has been phased out after 24 years . |
| 14 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 15 | Can we be assured that those regional representatives will reflect the political majority in those regions and will not simply be Government nominees , as we have seen in so many quangos and regional bodies that have been set up in recent years ? |
| 16 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |
| 17 | A common problem in geographical information systems ( GIS ) , and one which has been known about for many years in the context of choropleth mapping , is that of producing maps from population data aggregated over selected arbitrary areal units . |
| 18 | The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years . |
| 19 | Another important factor contributing to the lower-risk insurance element was that , quite simply , buildings that have been put up in recent years have been much more structurally sound than those constructed during the '60s and early '70s . |
| 20 | In my view this country is filled with immense new moral forces which have been dammed back for ten years by the great dead bulk of the Labour Party Machine lying like a fallen tree across the road to progress . |
| 21 | If all were successful the government would be giving ‘ substantially ’ more than the measly £10m that had been paid out in previous years . |
| 22 | In return the Americans this month unblocked $5m in military aid that had been held up after last year 's arrests . |