Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This unprincipled position was sharply attacked by the Irish News , the nationalist newspaper which has been standard reading for the Catholic community in the North for the best part of a century . |
| 2 | As noted , eurobond firms are seeking to reform issuance procedures in a bid to reduce the current pressures on profitability , one underlying cause of which has been excess capacity . |
| 3 | The light over No. 6 which has been burning night and day for 2 months , now operates as it should — from dusk to dawn . |
| 4 | The move , at the 1,900-pupil Holyrood Roman Catholic Secondary in Glasgow , could pose a major threat to Strathclyde 's schools closure programme and present a tempting plum to the Scottish Office , which has been encouraging schools to leave council control and go for self-governing status . |
| 5 | The British public is increasingly distrustful of industry on environmental issues and there is rising support for the idea that " the polluter pays " , according to Bob Worcester , chairman of market research firm MORI , which has been tracking attitudes to the environment since 1969 . |
| 6 | , Scientists at the Dutch Central Veterinary Institute claim to have isolated the cause of the Mystery Reproductive Syndrome ( MRS ) disease which has been sweeping pig herds across much of western Europe over the past few months , leading to the loss of up to 10 per cent of offspring in some herds . |
| 7 | Since that time there has been an uneasy peace in the world the price of which has been constant vigilance and in keeping that peace our two countries have continued together as the witness of young American Airforce men currently stationed in this country . |
| 8 | Spink , who has been first choice since regaining the No 1 spot from Les Sealey in March , said : ‘ There was a time when my future seemed in jeopardy but things have turned my way again . ’ |
| 9 | The policewoman who has been comforting James 's parents said his mother Denise was still ‘ shellshocked ’ by the loss . |
| 10 | Allan Victor Jones , 51 , of Bangor , who has been chief fire officer of Gwynedd since 1989 is awarded the Queen 's Fire Service Medal . |
| 11 | Mary Shirley , a new teacher in the Kent area , is another trail-blazer who has been stirring interest with her special classes for the elderly and their carers . |
| 12 | who has been Senior Development Officer responsible for the Central Support Unit and co-ordinating the Advanced Courses Development Programme , is undertaking an evaluation of the programme and will be in contact with selected centres in due course . |
| 13 | AFTER a total of 36 years ' service in the nuclear industry — during which she has been personal secretary to no fewer than three chairmen — Dorothy Ashurst has retired . |
| 14 | For some time she has been head dancer of a troupe and has travelled extensively abroad , taking part in cabaret on land and aboard cruise ships . |
| 15 | She has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Fribourg , Switzerland ; Natal , South Africa ; and La Trobe , Melbourne . |
| 16 | I do n't think she 's been five times to my house in all the time I 've lived there , now in the early days er she said that when it , hang on , she said she 'd never come down cos she did n't like er |
| 17 | Go on , ask her where she 's been all afternoon , dressed up like a tart and missing for bloody hours . |
| 18 | She 's got a bruise on her arm like she 's been ten rounds with Dempsey … and it 's all your fault . ’ |
| 19 | Resident at Balbirnie House from day one has been managing director Eric Brown , who initiated the project . |
| 20 | There has been progress in design , but no progress in accomplishment , specifically because there has been equal progress in design on both sides of the arms race . |
| 21 | There has been scant evidence of our garden friendly pollinator in recent years as their constitutions can not withstand the chemicals abounding in pesticides . |
| 22 | However , despite launching the second wave of UDCs amidst government promotional hype proclaiming LDDC and MDC a success story , there has been scant attention paid in government circles to any rigorous analysis of the London and Liverpool experience . |
| 23 | While attention has been paid to the modification of adjudicative procedures to meet the requirements of a particular area , there has been little thought directed to the broader question of whether adjudication is the correct decision-making process on which to be fashioning procedures . |
| 24 | There has been little change in the combined market share of the six national brewers owning more than 2,000 pubs since February 1989 . |
| 25 | According to the Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys , there has been little change in breast-feeding patterns in the last decade . |
| 26 | In Britain , to date , there has been little experience of union influence over selection amongst the technical and social options for information technology . |
| 27 | At this age , there has been little hassle from the police : only an awareness that crime scars their neighbourhood . |
| 28 | But there has been little legislation directed specifically towards women . |
| 29 | Even though various initiatives have been undertaken by way of the provision of guidance , there has been little knowledge of the actual practices employed within the nontrading segments of the public sector . |
| 30 | There has been little work on the pathogenesis of migrating larvae of S. equinus . |