Example sentences of "[vb base] been [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 've been villages looted , men killed , women carried off — the usual tale of barons who do as they please while the King is helpless . |
| 2 | — Department store bosses trying to try on clothes in their fiddly little changing rooms ( you can always tell people who 've been clothes shopping they 're the ones with the bruised elbows ) ; — Town planners and architects who think steps are an interesting feature trying to get up them in a wheelchair , with a pram , or just with creaky old legs ; — Hospital consultants who make ten appointments for the same time waiting in out-patients , especially if it 's the day when there 's a dotty old lady , a whining child and an old man who coughs and spits all in the same little section ; — Weird fashion experts wearing their crazier outfits in Darlington on a rainy Monday . |
| 3 | So you 've been shit stirring . |
| 4 | Oh no , so they 've been Ireland have they ? |
| 5 | So far , however , every road that we 've been down has turned out to be blind alley . ’ |
| 6 | They 've been ballroom dancing in Cheltenham Town Hall for 50 years now . |
| 7 | Erm amongst intellectuals er Er there 's one there 've been suggestions made about the holy alliance . |
| 8 | Oh you 've been self- employed yes |
| 9 | And if you 've been wind surfing and you ca n't get back , you can always hitch a lift to dry land . |
| 10 | I 've been keep thinking that . |
| 11 | It is not surprising , given the political climate of the 1980s , that there have been moves to improve the administration of public services by introducing management techniques more often associated ( in the eyes of government supporters at least ) with private enterprise . |
| 12 | So , although there have been moves to improve the BBC 's financial plight the essential character of the inequalities inherent in the broadcasting system remains . |
| 13 | And time after time after time , there have been cases prepared and whenever they came to court , there was nobody prepared to go into that courtroom . |
| 14 | There have been cases reported of gonorrhoea being passed on within four or five hours of its having been acquired , so , unlike the case with syphilis , there is no ‘ safe ’ period between catching and giving the infection . |
| 15 | And in fact in some parts of the country there have been experiments tested with having sprinkler system fitted into the home . |
| 16 | All of which have been precision engineered to last a lifetime . |
| 17 | These have been colour coded as above to help you identify when they are available . |
| 18 | I have been metal detecting now for over twenty years , and in that time have owned and tested many detectors . |
| 19 | In ethics , there have been attempts to incorporate or develop a women 's point of view , perceived as missing from mainstream theory . |
| 20 | While the efficient exploitation of Malaysia 's forests is beset by problems similar to those discussed above for Nigeria , there have been attempts to implement governmental control . |
| 21 | There have been attempts to estimate the economic cost of corporate crimes and render these in a meaningful fashion ( Bequai 1978 : 1 ; Clinard 1978 : 83–102 ; Conklin 1977 : 2–8 ; Geis 1975 : 95–7 ; Hills 1971 : 167–68 ; McCaghy 1976 : 205 ; President 's Task Force Report 1967 : 47–51 ; Stotland 1977:180–82 ) . |
| 22 | Several times in the past , there have been attempts to murder her . |
| 23 | Although there have been attempts to assess penetrance in the two phenotypes of Gardner and simple polyposis that have shown low penetrance , these have relied on the expression of cancer or the extraintestinal features . |
| 24 | There have been attempts to classify broad ‘ occupational training families ’ , and an emphasis on ‘ multi-skilling ’ , particularly for those who work in the service sector . |
| 25 | There have been attempts to explore similarities in terms of historical links . |
| 26 | As a possible agent of change , the bourgeoisie was discarded by dependency theorists , but in the wave of post-dependency criticism , there have been attempts to resuscitate this role for them . |
| 27 | In the use of the theories to analyse developments within the UK , however , there have been attempts to link long waves to the changing nature and pattern of uneven development . |
| 28 | In the 1980s there have been attempts to develop random sampling procedures as quick and as cheap as quotas . |
| 29 | In addition , there have been attempts to increase the influence of the House in a manner which escapes party divisions , particularly by the creation of more select or ‘ specialist ’ committees . |
| 30 | Erm there have been attempts to brighten them up at various times . |