Example sentences of "[vb base] been [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And certainly you know I mean Yona 's list now of support for this next rally we 've got on March the first is huge I mean it 's sort of and that 's not gon na go away is it you know I mean next year I do n't know what we 're gon na be up to but hopefully we 'll be supporting somebody else in their er struggle for fair play and that network will obviously come into play you know I mean I 've we 've been South Wales have said , Oh you know these are all our contacts you know some of the women in South Wales and in Deeside they 've said these are all our contacts and these are the people that were good and did the work and got the leaflets out and brought the money in you know and it 's as simple as that really you know . |
| 2 | Among their best known artists have been Michail Larionov , Natalia Gontcharova and Alexander Rodchenko . |
| 3 | By contrast , although there have been disagreements Israel 's bond with the United States has been rock-solid , built upon agreement ‘ concerning the nature and extent of the Soviet threat to the region ’ . |
| 4 | The others have been Mick Mills , John Wark , Paul Cooper , George Burley , John Elsworthy , Billy Baxter and Tommy Parker . |
| 5 | Others who have undertaken the care of the church and halls in later years have been Mrs Bell , Mrs Carson , Mr and Mrs Redpath , Mr James Twyble , Mr John Lavery , Mrs David Binks , Mrs K McClatchey and Mr William McFadden . |
| 6 | ‘ Obviously not , but I am not and never have been Mrs Smith , and there is nothing to prove differently . ’ |
| 7 | Elected to the board in the past twelve months have been Steve Ahearne , Rodney Chase and Bryan Sanderson ( managing directors ) and Dr Karen Horn ( non-executive ) . |
| 8 | More recent casualties have been Asil Nadir and Roger Levitt , whose groups have now crashed with stunning speed . |
| 9 | Tight forwards have been Jacques Fouroux 's obsession since France were shattered by New Zealand in the 1987 World Cup final . |
| 10 | More recent destinations have been South Africa , Venezuela , Australia and Europe . |
| 11 | I have been Havelock Blaine 's mistress since he was turned twenty-one , nine years ago . |
| 12 | Other Australians to have finished second have been Jack Newton ( 1980 ) , Bruce Crampton ( 1972 ) and Jim Ferrier ( 1950 ) . |
| 13 | Among those who have studied at the University in past centuries have been James Boswell and Oliver Goldsmith , Charles Darwin and James Clerk Maxwell , Joseph Lister and James Simpson , Walter Scott , Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle . |
| 14 | Another important element is the chairman : successive chairmen of the Treasury Committee have been Sir Ernest du Cann and Mr Terence Higgins and their stature , experience and ability added greatly to the weight of this committee . |
| 15 | Shares in real-estate investment trusts ( REITs ) — tax-favoured property vehicles — have been Wall Street 's star performers , beating the S&P 500 index by more than ten percentage points since January . |
| 16 | Of those English cricketers to have played in one-day internationals , the most successful have been Graham Gooch and Allan Lamb , both of whom average around 40 with the bat . |
| 17 | Previous Asian winners have been Salman Rushdie and Ruth Prawerjhabvala . |
| 18 | I found it hard to find Mill 's arguments for this , although he seems to be , he seems to be arguing the point over several pages , but erm we get pretty much rhetorical claims and evidence and so he wants us to consider those states which have been ruled by despots with those contemporary states which have been democracies England versus Spain say and he thinks it 's obvious which type of system we ought to prefer . |