Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Support for Scott could have come from Stanley 's Parliamentary Under Secretary , Henry Baillie , who was a personal friend of Manners and had been a supporter of Young England . |
| 2 | … his wretched father , who had each year sunk lower and lower in the underworld , had been a gentleman once , a man who had been familiar with good manners and had been educated in the customs of good breeding . |
| 3 | Bargains are available provided you can be sure that the animals come from good stock and have been kept in good condition . |
| 4 | ‘ I am his girlfriend and have been for sometime , ’ she said last night . |
| 5 | As a result far too many people emerge from their doctor , lawyer or bank manager feeling that they have not had a fair deal and have been treated as children rather than as adults who know their own mind . |
| 6 | The system was installed four years ago as an experiment and has been monitored ever since . |
| 7 | She had long shapely legs and had been known in Moscow by her nickname , ‘ The Smooch ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ That will mean losing some players who are popular with the fans and have been really good servants of the club . |
| 9 | Acarbose is a pseudotetrascaccharide and has been used in clinical trials with insulin dependent and non-insulin dependent diabetes to control hyperglycaemia , improve the diabetic metabolic condition , and , if possible , to reduce the insulin requirements . |
| 10 | He played in every position in the Bangor back-line and had been a regular member of the Ulster squad that swept the boards in the inter-provincial championships in the last nine years . |
| 11 | Among the most prominent of Syrian political prisoners was Noureddin al-Atasi , who had immediately preceded Assad as President and had been in prison since 1970 . |
| 12 | The IRA claimed the man , although a Catholic , was a ‘ hit man and intelligence officer ’ for the extreme Protestant Ulster Freedom Fighters and had been involved in a number of gun attacks on nationalists and republicans . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
| 14 | It was set up for the administrative convenience of the London banks and the defendant and has been used principally in connection with the buying and selling of stocks and shares on the London market . |
| 15 | One of the people he 's conning is Sir Epicure Manhom who wants a life of ease and luxury and has been giving the alchemist loads of money in order to tu to , to perfect this and funny enough the alchemist has n't managed , has n't managed to do this , to get the person 's money . |
| 16 | First , Father Reynard had secretly admired Lady Eleanor and had been near the Galilee Gate the night she had died . |
| 17 | The opposition National Front for the Salvation of Libya stated that several of those promoted had taken part in purges of dissidents and had been expelled from European countries . |
| 18 | I am a sole practitioner and have been asked to stand down and make way as auditor of a limited company for a larger outfit , following a JMU visit . |
| 19 | This first example illustrates an impulsive overdose taken by a woman who had experienced a recent loss and had been unable to discuss her problems with her family . |
| 20 | His father , also named Rudolf Slansky , had been general secretary of the CPCz and had been executed in 1952 after a show trial at which he was accused of being an agent of imperialism . |
| 21 | Franco 's failure to assist them undoubtedly contributed to that result and had been calculated in political rather than exclusively military terms . |
| 22 | Does he not realize that the people of Ulster are quite passively tolerating Dublin rule and have been since the 15th of November 1985 . |
| 23 | Only to find , first , that genuinely ill as he was , he had missed the local paper saying the psychopath had been caught , and that the compulsive liar Brenda had been telling everyone he was her lover , a rumour that had got back to his wife whose mac he had by mistake worn during the murder and had been unable to destroy . |
| 24 | Tim , from Great Sankey , was a dedicated fan of the club and had been shopping for an Everton strip on the day of the Bridge Street bombing . |
| 25 | ‘ I cycle around quite often and I expect I 'll be doing some cycling in the North Yorkshire Moors during the next two months , ’ said Karen who is a member of the Tandem Club and has been a member of various Cyclist Touring Clubs . |
| 26 | Mr Greenway is also an accomplished horseman and has been a member of the Council of the British Horse Society since 1973 . |
| 27 | After the shooting , the IRA had acknowledged that all three men were members of its mid-Ulster brigade and had been killed on ‘ active service ’ . |
| 28 | Hersh 's book attracted libel suits in the UK over its claims that the UK newspaper proprietor Robert Maxwell had close links with the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and that he , together with a member of his Daily Mirror newspaper staff , had helped Mossad to track down Mordechai Vanunu , a nuclear technician who leaked details of Israel 's nuclear programme and had been imprisoned in Israel since 1986 [ see p. 35922 ] . |
| 29 | Help the Aged 's campaign is to raise money for its international ophthalmic programme and has been put together by its agency , O&M Direct . |
| 30 | Proliferative abnormalities in normal looking colorectal mucosa are believed to represent an early phase of colorectal carcinogenesis and have been found in a number of conditions associated with a high risk for these malignancies . |