Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly because some of them might 've been councillors and knew the ways that sort of er things went on and how to get things done officially and above board . |
| 2 | Unemployment has risen by nearly 1 million in the time that the hon. Gentleman has been Chancellor and Prime Minister , but still he refuses to do anything useful to stop that remorseless rise . |
| 3 | During the course of the time the right hon. Gentleman has been Chancellor and Prime Minister he is convicted by his own record and condemned by his own inaction in the face of the slump that he caused . |
| 4 | The winner has been apathy and the loser democracy . |
| 5 | All my life has been work and each other . ’ |
| 6 | What they confirm is the complex notion of uneven development outlined in the last section , and how the changing geography of the UK since the mid-'60s has been part and parcel of its wider transformation . |
| 7 | This is probably because the focus of much of locality based history has been reproduction and the important political initiatives in relation to reproductive issues during the Second World War were national in origin and response . |
| 8 | Professor Stewart has been Secretary and Deputy Chairman of the Agricultural and Food Research Council since 1988 . |
| 9 | Whether strictly order twenty eight , er order sixty , rule twenty eight for erm applies in this case is not amount entirely clear to me because the obligation to lodge a bill of taxation under rule twenty nine provides that he must begin proceedings for the taxation either within three months after the judgement direction or order of the terminations enter sides are otherwise perfected , and that is presently on it 's face which seemed to be debited May of nineteen ninety three and er accordingly that is right , it 's not in fact been any failure to comply with order tw order sixty two , rule twenty nine , one , and that has n't been disregarded , it 's not entirely clear to me that erm there is any matter come from paragraph sub paragraph A of rule twenty eight , four , it may already require , still nevertheless erm fall within paragraph B of rule fo , erm there has in fact been a delay in lodging the bill of costs for taxation , the delay being really and truly , the delay in having the order of Mr Justice perfected and it seems to me that although in chasing matters generally speaking it is the court will itself draw the order , nevertheless where er it seems to be clearly in this case would contemplate it that counsel would sign a minute erm that counsel do sign a minute and that minute has been signed having forwarded by the defendants solicitors to the defendants solicitors seems to me it must be the case that erm the obligation to , as it were , forward that minute to the court , it is an obligation which would lie upon the plaintiffs solicitors and it maybe said that erm there has been delay and erm on the best it should be lodged with the court sealed , er shortly after it was received and that therefore on that footing there has been delay lodging the bill of costs for concession , er Mr , doctor does n't seemed to be take any point in relation to that er because it 's not in his interest to do so , it seems to be that he does have to say if it has been delayed , with an order of twenty eight rule four that 's a rule , rule , rule twenty eight er four if he is to have interest disbarred and er Mr er he 'll apparently have the matter of read before the taxing master , it seems that the taxing master did not chew any sympathy with that er suggestion , that er there was in fact no breach of the requirement rule twenty , four , Mr he said , very probably , that erm , look on text upon it , he really is concerned to erm have this case dealt with as you put it on the merits , it seems to me it 's in the interest of all parties that erm I should deal with the case on merits have on the assumption erm that er , that that was lodged properly I think , I ca I , a matter of which found within rule twenty eight , four and that the taxing officer give our interest under that rule . |
| 10 | In all these sports I have mentioned England has been masters and had all the top players . |
| 11 | A spokesman said : ‘ It has been mayhem and our main sale has n't even begun yet . ’ |
| 12 | Legislation affecting women in the last decade , whether it has been concerned with family , work or education , has been retrograde and consistently worked against them . |
| 13 | " The outcome has been incoherence and immobilism ; drift , not mastery . |
| 14 | The guiding light along O'Leary 's path has been Campion and Saracens coach John Davies , who says his star pupil will push the Underwood brothers hard for their places . |
| 15 | His entry in Who 's Who shows that he has won The Palladium ( sic ) Medal of The Electrochemical Society and has been professor and head of the chemistry department at Southampton University since 1983 . |
| 16 | Where such a movement has occurred , or there has been rumour and speculation , the Panel should be consulted if it is proposed not to make an immediate announcement . |
| 17 | A characteristic feature of educational concerns in the 1980s has been quality and the raising of standards , especially in secondary education , combined with a political determination to introduce speedy reforms . |
| 18 | It has been Matthaeus and the older heads who have impressed in recent months , however . |
| 19 | Paula herself has been manager and pharmacist in the Newtownards store for one and a half years . |
| 20 | They said ‘ The price we have paid for trying to control inflation has been unemployment and recession . |
| 21 | The cost of this project to the town has been £20,698 and Mr. Downham hoped that it would not only give much enjoyment , but would be treated with respect by all , so that it can be enjoyed for many years . |
| 22 | She is interested in the history and life of Burford , where she has been churchwarden and is active in the Burford Society and in local politics . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought I could handle it — but the very next day we 'd been sightseeing and returned to our suite and I looked into your eyes and felt myself drowning . |
| 24 | It is sad that Orwell should have been bedridden and dying when he met Waugh , for the first and last time . |
| 25 | Would they have been country and gospel-based songs ? |
| 26 | Clearly , there would have been conflict and confusion over what had and had not been devolved . |
| 27 | My favourite lessons would have been Art and Composition . |
| 28 | Brown sticks stuck out of the sleeves where there should have been wrists and his head was like a hard dry acorn , sun-burned and bald , no hair . |
| 29 | ‘ If we 'd been pounced upon a year ago we 'd have had maybe one good song and we would have been shit and not ready , without our style defined . ’ |
| 30 | Of course there must have been prohibitions and limits set , but I do n't remember rebelling against any of them . |