Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN Curant 's visits to the racecourse lately have been as a ladies clothing salesman operating from a mobile stand . |
| 2 | The main historical tension here has been between the institution ( typically the university ) and the professional body . |
| 3 | Another seven people murdered in Northern Ireland , a dreadful end to a dreadful week , and yet on Friday there had been at least a little optimism in the air , John Major and Albert Reynolds getting together in Brussels for what were billed as substantive talks , where does all that go now ? |
| 4 | Their last work together had been with a dead child . |
| 5 | There is no record of a dram-bottle from Darwin ever having been in the family ; there is , however , a beautiful silver compass inscribed ‘ Mr. Gould from C. Darwin Esq ’ . |
| 6 | It hit sectors and people who largely escaped before , the skilled , the clerical workers , the managers and the professionals who 've been badly mauled this time , and where last time around er the service sector was expanding to mop up some of those who 'd lost their jobs in manufacturing , this time the service sector too has been in deep trouble . |
| 7 | So far , more than seven million youngsters worldwide have been through the classes designed to make maths fun and encourage youngsters to build confidence . |
| 8 | The plan of the ‘ villa ’ thus exhibits unusual features , the main focus apparently having been on bathing and eating . |
| 9 | The focus here has been on Conventionality and Contrast , two pragmatic principles that together govern the lexicon . |
| 10 | The focus of most research into residence abroad has been upon the improvement of linguistic skills whereas this project is to investigate the contribution residence makers to students ' perceptions of the way of life in another country . |
| 11 | He was a trusted friend and one of the few people ever to have been in the Prince 's employ who spoke frankly to him , and when asked would give an honest , if sometimes unwelcome , opinion . |
| 12 | Since Dysart too had been to Oxford , it was possible that by taking Morpurgo on at Tyler 's Hard he had merely been doing an old chum a favour . |
| 13 | Hitherto , our provision here has been at best haphazard , and at worst deplorable . |
| 14 | The Queen harmony vocal idea was pretty much fully developed even on your first album , and it seems like the most significant developments since have been on the part of technology catching up . |
| 15 | Race horse trainer … easy life … you 've got to be joking … steeplechasing is all of life always has been to David Nicholson … he was born and bred … turned out and trained on the gallops at Prestbury … |
| 16 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what developments there have been in relation to the attempts by Her Majesty 's Government to secure the extradition of the two Libyan nationals accused of bombing flight PA 103 in 1988 ; and whether he will make a statement . |
| 17 | Most other wars prior had been over land or religion , this was over ideology . |
| 18 | Alone of the 15 union republics , the Russian Federation previously had been without its own Communist Party , its party organizations being an integral part of the CPSU . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what improvements there have been in the education provision in primary schools for children with special needs since 1979 . |
| 20 | As a youngest son his own prospects had been poor — his sojourn abroad had been in the company of his rich younger cousin Francis Whithead , to whom he may initially have acted as tutor — but on the death of his only surviving brother Anthony in 1754 he unexpectedly succeeded to the family estates . |
| 21 | Her young men hitherto had been in the City , or in advertising , chartered accountancy , or even television . |
| 22 | The two men also have been at odds over Israel 's Middle East policy , with Mr Levy pushing for greater flexibility in talks with the Arabs and against straining relations with the United States . |
| 23 | At no time could the department justify why they had not allowed a rabbi to visit the two Jewish children in the mainland foster homes , or permitted Quakers to visit the two Quaker children , Can all these refusals really have been in the best interests of the children ? |
| 24 | The right hon. Gentleman is aware that a number of European economies either have been in recession or are moving towards recession at precisely the moment when the United Kingdom economy is poised to come out of recession . |
| 25 | No , I have n't that information , tha that that detail was asked for , but I do know that er that certainly in a majority of cases because they are local erm the attendance from tenants was certainly substantial and I would of , but certainly far more than you would expected if the panel perhaps had been inside a . |
| 26 | ‘ The boys here have been over the area with a fine toothcomb , Frank . |
| 27 | There 's no doubt that the street-wisdom of the English forwards has been of huge value to them . |
| 28 | The main wintering concentrations in Sussex recently have been in the Pagham/Selsey area , with up to 60 regularly ; Seaford Bay , with up to 30 regularly ; and Rye Bay , with up to seventy . |
| 29 | The house alone had been like a dream come true after the two-bedroomed flat on the outskirts of Stirling where she and her mother had lived in near penury for the past seven years since Shiona 's father 's death . |