Example sentences of "[verb] been [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 2 | The second major contextual change has been shifts in government policy , operating in the context of large scale youth unemployment . |
| 3 | Clearly at the state of the talks with the T & G , we still have a long long way to go to reach this new goal and there 's a strong rumour that there has been discussions between Sir John Edmunds and Lord Bill Morris the name of the new union already and I think an apt title for the union at the moment would be Yugoslavia because we 're in ethnic groups , we are sections , we 've got the boiler makers who are still claiming things they lost ten years ago when they merged . |
| 4 | In recent years there have been a number of studies reporting the isolation of mycobacteria from patients with Crohn 's disease , but it has been reports of the isolation of M paratuberculosis , which have generated the greatest interest . |
| 5 | The most serious impact on the community sector has been cuts in local authority spending — the largest source of revenue for most local organisations . |
| 6 | Like other sections of the popular movement the health sector has been years in the growing and in establishing work practice and vital organizations . |
| 7 | There 'd been services in St Simon and St Jude 's every day this week . |
| 8 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 9 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 10 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 11 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 13 | There was none to be seen in this small guest room , but there 'd been shelves of them lining two walls in the sitting-room overlooking the Thames . |
| 14 | In the past there 'd been cases of children who were witches . |
| 15 | Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held . |
| 16 | Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held . |
| 17 | There 'd been incidents of violence between gangland type er warfare between inmates . |
| 18 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 19 | Because th th th th there , there 'd been statements from Mao until the end of nineteen forty five where he 's still talking about land to the tiller being some way off |
| 20 | There 'd been months of preparation and delays because of the weather . |
| 21 | There 'd been photographs of these people 's faces in the newspapers , but Stephen had forgotten what the faces looked like . |
| 22 | Because there 'd been arguments about it earlier on in the century , had n't there ? |
| 23 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 24 | So I walked beneath the trees and found just under my feet pieces of old concrete and what might once have been bits of wall . |
| 25 | Finally , the ‘ deme judges ’ ( again an originally Pisistratid invention ) dispensed a justice which was uniform for all Attica , but they travelled round the demes on a kind of assize circuit ; they too must have been agents of unification . |
| 26 | She stopped at the graveyard to visit the dead ; but as , even alive , they would all have been strangers to her she felt intrusive . |
| 27 | Jackals and martens could hardly have lifted the latch and , even if they had found their way in , there would have been signs of a scuffle : dead chickens , scattered feathers . |
| 28 | Surely there would have been signs of porpoise tanks or something of that kind on board , and there was only the diving equipment and the submersible research vehicle . |
| 29 | A team creates a supportive atmosphere where people are happy to go at risk , say what they really think , develop one another 's ideas and commit to an agreed course of action even though there may have been differences of opinion . |
| 30 | Ultimately , there might have been differences between them in what enlargement meant , but the point is that higher education stood for an overriding and widening development of the mind . |