Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb base] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
| 2 | Even here in Roztoky there have been burglaries . ’ |
| 3 | Meanwhile in the main ring there have been displays of everything from parachuting to sheep dog displays . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This may well mean developing the range of presentational skills which have been part and parcel of effective classroom teaching for generations . |
| 6 | Above all , fidelity to the " open justice " principle keeps Britain free from the reproach that it permits " secret courts " of the kind which have been instruments of repression in so many other countries . |
| 7 | Hugh you 've been minister of the parish of Inverleith here in Edinburgh for the past seventeen years , and I understand you were one of the very first vice convenors of the Board when it was set up eight years ago having already served the church on the former Interchurch Relations Committee . |
| 8 | Then add the 100% who have been babies . |
| 9 | For more than twenty years I 've been part of the furniture , a constant teatime companion . |
| 10 | I have heard of three deaths during rugby matches in the seven years I have been secretary , but nothing like this . |
| 11 | Three modal types can be distinguished : industry-wide , multi-employer bargaining which is external to the firm , as practised in much of Western Europe on wage-related issues ; single enterprise or firm bargaining , as typically found in the USA and Japan ; and economy-wide systems between trade union and employer central confederations which have been characteristic of several countries , including Norway , Sweden , Denmark and , at times , the Netherlands . |
| 12 | The miners ' strike revealed the range of new movements and organisations which have been arenas , if complex and contradictory , for the development of working-class culture and working-class consciousness , promising to broaden traditional conceptions of the composition and objectives of the labour movement yet also portraying the unions ' capacity to ignore that potential when it stepped beyond the domestic and controllable to stake its own claims for recognition . |
| 13 | In past years you have been kind enough to allow a skip to be sited on the Mill Yard for the collection of large items of household rubbish . |
| 14 | Victim or victimisation studies are designed to investigate the number of individuals who have been victims of crime . |
| 15 | For the last two weeks we 've been sort of fine tuning and now everything 's going to plan . |
| 16 | For seventy years we have been slaves to the tyrannical French . |
| 17 | ‘ For seven years we have been gypsies , wandering with no home . |
| 18 | Over the past six or seven years we have been victims of the city council 's urban regeneration strategy . |
| 19 | At Flora Road , Witham there have been problems with unauthorised parking by travellers . |
| 20 | Crimes of violence comprise less than 4 per cent of recorded crime , and while crimes of violence have risen rapidly in numbers in the post-war period there have been changes in the pattern of such offences . |
| 21 | In Bristol there have been complaints that the hit squad are ‘ out of touch ’ after several insensitive hits that were not entirely well-meaning . |
| 22 | In the last fifty years there have been problems for the fishermen and most have become unemployed or moved to other jobs . |
| 23 | In more recent years there have been signs of a change in emphasis . |
| 24 | In the past few years there have been signs of its introduction and extension by manufacturing organisations experiencing increasing volatility in their markets , increasing inability to predict their manpower requirements and increasing pressures to minimise labour costs . |
| 25 | Fortunately , over the past few years there have been attempts by social services and local authorities to review the value of care for young people . |
| 26 | As guardians of its wildlife , Hong Kong 's British tenants can not be said to have done very well , though in the last ten years there have been attempts by Hong Kong conservationists to save what is left . |
| 27 | In recent years there have been changes in educational emphasis in schools . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For years there have been complaints that our school system leads inexorably to too narrow a specialization , especially in the sixth form . |
| 30 | For several years there have been complaints from Bramshott residents about flooding , erosion of banks and the neglected state of the path . |