Example sentences of "[vb base] been [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 've been visitors each day for the past year and a half to this quiet corner of the Whitworth Road Cemetery in Swindon . |
| 2 | I 've been bone idle ca n't keep |
| 3 | . He would of , you look at the page , we 've been number eight . |
| 4 | Surprisingly , considering how successful he had been , this was Beerbaum 's first victory in a World Cup qualifier , ‘ though I have been second more times than I know ’ , he added . |
| 5 | Notable amongst these have been companies involved in defence contracting , transport and telecommunications . |
| 6 | ‘ The three of us have been friends all our lives , Lanyon . |
| 7 | The worst affected have been birds such as the terns and kittiwakes which feed by catching small fish near the sea surface by shallow plunge-diving . |
| 8 | According to an evaluation report this may reflect an unwillingness to admit that in the past schools have been sex biased ( Payne , Cuff and Hustler , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | As patients who have been stone free for >nine months constitute a low risk group for recurrence ( see below ) , the apparently lower recurrence rate in the chenodeyxholic acid treated patients may be an artefact . |
| 10 | But , since William Henry Payne set up his own practice in London in 1892 , there have been Paynes all the way down the line — including two sons , a grandson ( the current senior partner ) and a great grandson — another William — who joined this year . |
| 11 | There have been perks.This new classroom unit is one of them … paid for by extra money from the government … |
| 12 | There have been men such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 1772–1834 ) and C. S. Lewis who were so rooted in the Christian gospel that their ‘ romanticism ’ was clearly a prophetic warning against modernity . |
| 13 | It was over for weeks ago that we last publishd a programe , as finansises have been moch two tite for such extragavance . |
| 14 | ‘ The currency fluctuation between the punt and pound sterling , ’ commented Michael Ryder of Easons , ‘ meant that overall , prices of books published in the UK have been 10% lower in the Republic , which has made things difficult . |
| 15 | There have been occasions this season when Quakers have taken the lead and then sloppily folded ; but this time the players rolled up their sleeves to jealously protect the three points . |
| 16 | ‘ I told him that he is violent , has mistreated her very badly , have been trigger happy and whatever kindness he might have done for her he had cancelled by beatings and threats he had made on her life . |
| 17 | Other additions , we did earlier Chair , and that is we have received a mental illness specific grant , erm , on a number of schemes but they have been time limited , and they are due to cease , some of them are due to cease in the coming year . |