Example sentences of "[adv] been [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jerzy Milewski , head of the National Security Office at the Presidential Chancellery , said that the plans had only been discussion documents , but on April 13 Walesa admitted that plans existed . |
| 2 | Where once upon a time there had only been fishing boats , now bobbed the magnificent yachts of international millionaires . |
| 3 | Defence and foreign policy have long been bedrock attributes of the nation state , and each European nation has entrenched national attitudes and distinct national interests . |
| 4 | Between 1979 and 1989 the reduction in public-sector employment , extension of private home-ownership ( up from 55 per cent to 65 per cent ) and share-ownership ( up from 7 per cent to 22 per cent ) , increasing scope for private provision of services , and run-down of trade union membership ( down from 54 per cent to 46 per cent of the workforce ) have all been government objectives . |
| 5 | So it would n't have just been insurance investigators ferreting about — it would have been the world 's press as well . |
| 6 | The primary energy source of industrialised countries has always been fossil fuels . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've always been Athena customers , ’ he grins , in explanation of this enthusiasm . |
| 8 | His family had always been Delhi jewellers — his ancestors had served the Mughal emperors and before them the Delhi Sultans . |
| 9 | The Wrights had always been classics masters at the great public schools , or clergymen . |
| 10 | We 've always been forest Romanies , but if Wychwood is to be chopped down Boz and the rest of us will have to take to the road . ’ |
| 11 | The surviving floors , though , were of clay , which might imply that there had once been plank floors above them . |
| 12 | There have also been pilot programmes in Iowa , USA , New Zealand , and Edinburgh . |
| 13 | There have also been software problems . |
| 14 | There have also been poliomyelitis outbreaks despite high vaccine uptake , which suggests that strategies that rely exclusively on routine administration of OPV are inadequate to achieve global eradication of poliomyelitis by the year 2000 . |
| 15 | This has been a major problem in Kent , Essex , Suffolk , and Norfolk , and most notoriously at Halvergate , where there have also been acidity problems , causing some farmers to have to jet their drains every year . |
| 16 | The safest and most popular alternative ( but not the cheapest ) has traditionally been travellers cheques , which are , in general , universally accepted . |
| 17 | There have once again been reception problems with the radio signalling and sometimes the token has only been received in the back cab . |
| 18 | Many low caste people who had previously been craft workers turned to farm work , and as farmworkers they had to be paid not in the old feudal terms but an amount definitely related to the work they did . |
| 19 | In practice , most of them have previously been deputy lieutenants . |
| 20 | These lakes have never been landlord lakes — the fishing has always been free for the people . |