Example sentences of "[vb base] been [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Particularly in soil in areas where there 've been cows and things in the past . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | There have been ups and downs of course . |
| 5 | There have been ups and downs , yes , but on the whole my fortunes have grown . |
| 6 | In the mills additional factors have been rationalisation and the use of more modern machinery . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And , like any other revolution , there have been advantages and disadvantages for the unsuspecting and often vulnerable consumer . |
| 9 | There have been changes and there will continue to be changes until some of them convince me they should be in the team regularly . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The major proponents of a rules based approach in the UK have been Crew and Rowley ( 1970 , 1971 ) . |
| 12 | More significant predictors , especially in recent elections , have been location and home ownership . |
| 13 | The losers have been women and those , more than two-thirds of all workers , who are outside the core labour market . |
| 14 | While there have been papers and reviews aplenty , no single book has been available until now to embrace the microbial populations which flourish and decline , evolve and stagnate , as co-terrestrials with man and the other animals . |
| 15 | The choice for the children trapped in the welfare system is therefore not solely between white families and a life of institutional care as we are led to believe ; there are black families willing and capable of opening up their homes to these children , but there have been policies and practices which have prevented this development . |
| 16 | Clearly , there have been disasters and reversals here , and the image of the calm backwater is no reflection of its history . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , others have been disasters and much public money has gone into them . |
| 18 | This may well mean developing the range of presentational skills which have been part and parcel of effective classroom teaching for generations . |
| 19 | Consequently , RUC officers have been subjected to public degradation ceremonies , and there have been threats and physical attacks on themselves and their families , forcing some of them to relocate . |
| 20 | In the past we have been able to help out when there have been settlement and clearing difficulties and are ready to do the same again . ’ |
| 21 | The longer they have been Christians and the more they have been preoccupied with their Christian activities , the more difficult it becomes to relate their beliefs to the perceived needs of their friends . |
| 22 | There have been bangs and explosions , the appearances and disappearances of islands and volcanoes ever since . |
| 23 | Since the turn of the year there have been nods and winks that Jackson 's job was in jeopardy . |
| 24 | If Japan represents one possible path towards postmodernity , it is clear that there have been winners and losers in this development . |
| 25 | In Britain there have been advances and setbacks . |
| 26 | In addition to Jarvis ( 1983 ) there have been books and papers emanating from a recent SRHE conference ( see Goodlad 1984 ; Squires 1989b ) . |
| 27 | As a more formal evaluation has suggested , it is too early to judge , but certainly there have been gains and losses . |
| 28 | The two big flops in the list have been Rolls-Royce and British Steel . |