Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of those on benefit half had been in receipt for more than 2.6 years . |
| 2 | Most of the young people had suffered several foster placement breakdowns , and some had been in trouble with the law . |
| 3 | Shalikashvili was currently senior assistant to the chair of the US joint chiefs of staff ( Gen. Colin Powell ) and in 1991 had been in charge of the operation to protect the Kurdish population in northern Iraq . |
| 4 | Our source remains adamant that Mr Hoy did say that Channel 7 had been in contact with the Institute . |
| 5 | Out of a total of seventeen boys from this group interviewed over a period of one year , no fewer than ten had been in trouble with the police for offences not connected with activities at football matches . |
| 6 | Coopers ' letter adds : ‘ We confirm that , if FRS 3 had been in effect at the date of signing the audit opinion on the 1991 financial statements , and the relevant reclassifications had been made , together with the adjustment for goodwill described above , the audit opinion would not have been qualified . ’ |
| 7 | The called up share capital disclosed in the Balance Sheet fro the group at 31st March 1990 has been presented on the basis that the 1,320,000 ordinary shares of 25p each issued on the merger with Model Manufacturing Ltd had been in issue at 31st March 1990 . |
| 8 | As Elector of Hanover George I had been at war with Charles XII of Sweden , one of the outstanding soldiers of his time , since October 1715 and England now became involved due to the frequent presence of an English fleet in the Baltic , which the Swedes were inclined to regard , as the English did the Channel , as a private sea of their own . |
| 9 | Richards , who admitted United had been in touch with Francis , revealed : ‘ Alex Ferguson also telephoned me and suggested talks at chairman level might be useful . |
| 10 | After the er Police Act nineteen sixty four had been in force for some years and when the government of the day which you supporters in the nineteen seventies and later , tried to erm modify it in order to er make a dovetail with local government reforms which we supported . |
| 11 | Both had been in detention without charge or trial since their arrest following the coup d'état which brought Hafez al-Assad to power in November 1970 . |