Example sentences of "[vb base] been [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , one of the things that I I I do wish hand-book writers would er , do , is to erm , write whenever practical , to seek out the strength of the group , at the beginning , so , that for example , how mu if there are those of us who 've been magistrates or been before the court , or involved in legal processes . |
| 2 | Some months later I paid him back , ignoring his ridiculous caveats and quibbles about interest rates because they were frankly unintelligible , and we 've been mates and muckers ever since . |
| 3 | Particularly in soil in areas where there 've been cows and things in the past . |
| 4 | I do n't know oh They 've been telly that Tom give us , that give us and then I did n't put on |
| 5 | But stand-in skipper McAllister took all this flak in his assured stride and said : ‘ That 's two weeks running we 've been rubbish because Graeme Souness tried to make out Liverpool were the better side after the Charity Shield . |
| 6 | The conventional style , gears , whether they 've been power or or manual , as develops erm more of the sort of business on those type applications , yeah , then basically it increases overall share and then it puts pressure on the business that we 've got on the other D group ball bearings . |
| 7 | and what our boys … our volunteers … the boys all say they are looking forward to it some have been canoeing and they expect it to be fast and bumpy … |
| 8 | But there have been stories that he actually landed , Bovingdon is one place that 's mentioned . |
| 9 | There have been ups and downs of course . |
| 10 | There have been ups and downs , yes , but on the whole my fortunes have grown . |
| 11 | In the mills additional factors have been rationalisation and the use of more modern machinery . |
| 12 | More recently there have been letters and articles predicting a world population of 15 billion , but no account has been taken of the fact that between 10 and 25 per cent could die of AIDS in the next twenty years , as is already happening in parts of Africa . |
| 13 | It must , he thought , have been decades since a fire was lit in it for warmth . |
| 14 | And , like any other revolution , there have been advantages and disadvantages for the unsuspecting and often vulnerable consumer . |
| 15 | ‘ There have been changes since you were last among us , Howard . ’ |
| 16 | There have been changes and there will continue to be changes until some of them convince me they should be in the team regularly . ’ |
| 17 | And , since the casualty list of the Westland Affair , there have been signs that the Thatcher Cabinet may function more collectively for a time at least . |
| 18 | In the past year he had been restraining the army and trying for a political settlement ; and there have been signs that Tamil extremists may be prepared to talk about autonomy rather than secession . |
| 19 | This season there have been signs that Jane 's early talent is budding anew . |
| 20 | Some theorists believe that hydrogen becomes a metallic solid where its electrons freely flow when compressed by two or three million atmospheres pressure ; there have been speculations that metallic hydrogen could be useful as a fusion fuel . |
| 21 | Even when there have been tensions and problems , we may have spent many out-of-work hours caring for parents , and there may be deep-rooted feelings of loss . |
| 22 | In recent weeks there have been reports that the travel/holiday business has been in disarray . |
| 23 | But most failures — so far — have been firms that never went near the merger market . |
| 24 | Within the past few years there have been developments that give rise to the hope that before too long we shall have a filly consistent quantum theory of gravity , one that will agree with general relativity for macroscopic objects and will , one hopes , be free of the mathematical infinities that have long bedeviled other quantum field theories . |
| 25 | There have been estimates that a leading Auckland player 's season could start in March and finish in early April , with a first class match every weekend , bar one . |
| 26 | The major proponents of a rules based approach in the UK have been Crew and Rowley ( 1970 , 1971 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I have been gardening since I was a child . |
| 28 | Both within sociolinguistics and outside of it there have been discussions that appear to attack quantitative method for making claims about causation and correlation . |
| 29 | More significant predictors , especially in recent elections , have been location and home ownership . |
| 30 | The losers have been women and those , more than two-thirds of all workers , who are outside the core labour market . |