Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferguson 's phone has been hot all summer as opposition managers enquired about Hughes ' availability . |
| 2 | Finally , the response from unsuccessful applicants to donate their entry fee to our own charitable objectives has been greater this year than in any previous year . |
| 3 | His work rate has been prodigious all season , and although he may not have the quickest service around , he must rate currently as the world 's no 1 scrum-half . |
| 4 | Another difficulty has been that such councils are attuned to providing finance for the creation of specific works , while the need for support in popular music is not at the point of creation , but for help in reaching audiences . |
| 5 | However , the British people must be asking where it has been all these years . |
| 6 | This week the County Ground in Swindon has been open all hours … thirty six thousand tickets have been sold … goodness knows how many scarves and souvenirs … |
| 7 | The unrestricted interchange of 16 players — with 11 on the field at one time — has been experimental this season and will apply to all age groups , men and women . |
| 8 | Moving Waddle from the right wing , where he performed so imaginatively against the Italians , in order to accommodate Rocastle , whose form has been patchy all season , is another selection open to doubt . |
| 9 | Yes , but has been wet all day . |
| 10 | His scope has been modest this summer . |
| 11 | HEALTH : Lenny 's health has been excellent all summer . |
| 12 | Collins ' form has been as stable as his club 's progress has been erratic this season and the player feels he should have represented his country more often than he has done . |
| 13 | Walsh warned : ‘ James has been unstoppable this season since he trimmed down in the summer from 22 stone to a mere 18 . |
| 14 | Walsh warned : ‘ James has been unstoppable this season since he trimmed down in the summer from 22 stone to a mere 18 . |
| 15 | it was in here it was sort of like , he 'd been niggly all day , he was tired , he sort of like knocked it over with his foot , and of course it went straight over the dry nappy that was laid out on the floor ready to put under him , I said oh that nappy |
| 16 | Miss Evans moved from the sink where she 'd been all this time , standing quite still , and started to clear the plates from the table . |
| 17 | Well then th they must have been she said they 'd been concerned all day . |
| 18 | If there 'd been any more trouble , we would just have drawn our staffs and knocked all hell out of them . |
| 19 | Buddy would have been 56 this year and no doubt raving on even now had it not been for that fateful February in 1959 … the day the music died . |
| 20 | I could have been married many times , as everyone knows , but I was always so involved with my father 's business and then my own , life was always so full , that I let the opportunities slip by . |
| 21 | If at any stage in the discussions on Monday , or in all the other discussions that I have attended in the past two years , it had been a question of majority vote , there would have been much less agreement , and to the extent that decisions had been imposed by a majority , they would have been much less effective . |
| 22 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 23 | It would have been much more fun , do n't you think , if they 'd dressed as housewives . |
| 24 | She 'll have been awake all night , thinking and thinking and thinking . |
| 25 | Must have been all those flowers . |
| 26 | Frankly , I do not believe that there should have been all this talk about a little bit of majority voting on foreign policy . |
| 27 | The development of the double helix structure of DNA may have been one such improvement in the early stages . |
| 28 | SUCH a scoreline would have been unimaginable this time last year , but Chelmsford 's new-found strengths more than Oxford 's incredible decline engineered this crushing English League win . |
| 29 | To sustain carnivores , there must have been many more herbivores ; but the idea that two of each kind were created somewhere and slowly spread and multiplied would not go with real population dynamics . |
| 30 | In fact it might well have been that such developments generally attracted more labour than could be fully employed , which departed once the enterprise was terminated , leaving behind a sleepy farming community not unlike the fifteen undeveloped villages of Babergh hundred ( Table 2.18 ) . |