Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average attendance in the 121 years of its existence has been 60–80 pupils . |
| 2 | One focus to this resistance has been realistic plot-paradigms which Sukenick constantly subverts in the interest of getting nearer to the real . |
| 3 | But when states have tried an outright ban , as some have , the result has been illicit stills , producing deadly brews that have blinded and killed thousands over the years . |
| 4 | The top rated American TV programme has been beguiling children for the last 13 years . |
| 5 | One of the world 's greatest classical violinists has been surprising audiences at a top JAZZ club . |
| 6 | An additional complication to Rugby 's future has been legal writs for damages by Mal Malik , a former Coventry and Rugby flank-forward . |
| 7 | In his biography of the earl of Pembroke , however , Dr Phillips has effectively disproved this notion and shown the baronial conciliators to have been royal supporters , rather than independents . |
| 8 | Mr. West had in fact calculated its weight to have been 1,771 tons . |
| 9 | Given that our Association had been 75 years outside the wider Trade Union Movement , our Delegates were concerned at what type of reception they might receive from the Conference . |
| 10 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 11 | This was because those steps had been reasonable ones to take even though they had in the event aggravated the losses . |
| 12 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 13 | Bruno of Nordgau had been fifty-one years old when he died . |
| 14 | The question in this situation is , would the pilot have recognised that this would not have been possible if the aircraft had been 50 feet lower ? |
| 15 | For the first time she regretted being an identical twin ; none of this would have happened if she and Dana had been ordinary sisters , but then you might never have met Roman Wyatt , her subconscious whispered . |
| 16 | Her presence and her loss had been equal disasters . |
| 17 | My words have been grubby confetti , faded , tacky , blown far |
| 18 | But England 's recent games against both nations have been full Tests and the squad will include those available England players not selected by the Lions . |
| 19 | The Greeks and the Jews have been such peoples and produced such thinkers . |
| 20 | ‘ His own models of feminity have been extraordinary women — the Queen Mother , who never let a feeling come between her and her duty , and the Queen . |
| 21 | Yeah , cos I think Ann 's been two courses now and we 've picked her brains so we can have basic use , but er you start to realise it 's only a little bit of the system you know , you could do a lot more |
| 22 | Up to now , most borders have been French imports , but this year a company has come into being which designs and manufactures borders in this country . |
| 23 | Thereafter , their books have been follow-up studies of this second group of children . |
| 24 | Middlesbrough-born Alf has been chief personnel officer with Middlesbrough council since 1974 and before that he worked for Teesside county borough council . |
| 25 | From April 1 , 1989 , the limit for advice and assistance provided to a petitioner for divorce or judicial separation has been three times the sum for preparation for magistrates ' court criminal proceedings ; and in other cases , two times that sum . |
| 26 | Churchill , Eden , Macmillan , and Home had been political grandees ; all emerged through the ‘ magic circle , and not as a result of election by MPs . |
| 27 | This image of a pion transmuting was as important to particle physics as Rutherford 's discovery of the transmutation of the elements had been 40 years earlier . |
| 28 | STAFF TRAINING The details have yet to be revealed but Mr Pearson said the council had been encouraging firms to train their staff since 1983 . |
| 29 | Two days later we were in the grips of another Hebbert epic , running round the High Level Route to get back to Wasdale Head for 10.00pm — our estimated time of return had been three hours earlier ! |
| 30 | The companies have been arch rivals ever since and it 's only fitting now that the two main rivals in the so-called ‘ old school trainers ’ wars are Adidas and Puma . |