Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first impression of Galvone had been of a mobster , but Newman had met other reasonably honest Americans holding high positions who had made the same initial impression . |
| 2 | By the end of the year he had obtained livery of his spiritualities and temporalities , although a protracted and bitter dispute ensued for over a year with Archbishop Walter Reynolds [ q.v. ] over the sums Hamo claimed as due to him for vacancy , during which the see of Rochester had been in the archbishop 's hands . |
| 3 | Everyone he had met in Fontanellato had been very kind , a good deal kinder than the people of Štanjel had been to his successor ; which was encouraging . |
| 4 | Reed Canoes & Camping of Cambridge have been amongst the retailers having a difficult time of late . |
| 5 | The Judaization of Jerusalem had been under way since the Israelis occupied the whole city in 1967 , but this was the first occasion on which Jews had moved into the Christian Quarter . |
| 6 | Since 1909 the House of Lords has been under attack , and whilst one objection which has been taken has been to the undemocratic nature of the House , that is not the whole story . |
| 7 | There had been heated argument in the Supreme Soviet about the method of electing a President , and for over a week members of the opposition Democratic Party of Tadjikistan had been on hunger strike in support of popular elections . |
| 8 | President François Mitterrand of France had been on board the yacht two days previously during a private visit . |
| 9 | At the end of the sixteenth century the ‘ crowned republic ’ of Poland had been in some ways one of the great powers of Europe . |
| 10 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |
| 11 | As lack of resources has been a perennial problem since the beginning the boost given to the financial status of the BDA by the patronage of The Princess of Wales has been of incalculable value . |
| 12 | In Japan , the role of MITI has been of particular importance in vertically co-ordinating enterprises in the achievement of longer-term , macro-economic , industry-wide planning ( Dore , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | The project build on considerable experience of applied GIS : the School of Geography at the University of Leeds has been at the forefront of international developments in applied geographical modelling and through GMAP ( Geographical Modelling and Planning ) Ltd. is now applying its unique state of the art approach in many varied business and planning environments . |
| 14 | Dear little thing he was , just like Jenny had been at his age . |
| 15 | The Royal Ordnance site at Westcote near Aylesbury has been at the forefront of rocket research and development since it was set up in 1946 . |
| 16 | The idea of a move into Europe has been under consideration since at least 1989 , the year when Darty was first approached by Kingfisher . |
| 17 | Until the early 1980s , unemployment in Sheffield had been below the national average for the whole of the post-war period . |
| 18 | The many part-time farmers in Germany had been under the same economic pressures as their counterparts in the UK in recent years . |
| 19 | This confirmed a dramatic reversal in the political fortunes of the Azerbaijan Popular Front , which in January had been on the verge of taking power with mass support until Soviet troops had staged a bloody crackdown . |
| 20 | Shelter 's research has found up to half of all homeless young people in Scotland had been in care , but only 34 per cent of district councils categorise them as vulnerable . |
| 21 | The man leading the hunt for the killer , Det Chief Insp Barry Hill , said forensic experts from Wetherby had been to the scene . |
| 22 | The most recent public execution in Albania had been in 1986 . |
| 23 | He used the occasion to inform the public that his decision to withdraw from the campaign in July had been in response to a Republican dirty tricks campaign which had included a plan to smear his daughter through manufactured photographs and to disrupt her forthcoming wedding . |
| 24 | " All men fought ; all men in England had been to India for the duration of the last war , leaving behind them a country of women . |
| 25 | Jessica Charles-Jones also from Wantage has been in a wheelchair since an accident in 1988 . |
| 26 | After last year 's franchise battle and now this takeover most of the interest in ITV has been behind the scenes , not on the screens . |
| 27 | They said that an AI group from Austria had been in touch with them with help and support , and that people from all over the world were pressing for his release . |
| 28 | The Carrock Fell mine in Cumbria has been in intermittent , small-scale production since 1901 . |
| 29 | Shareholders in Unisys have been through so much misery , the fear that the IBM mainframe blight will soon infect the company is so great that no reasonable offer for the company is likely to be refused — and while the Unisys debt burden is now manageable , it is still onerous for a company of Unisys ' size , but AT&T 's credit remains almost as good as gold . |
| 30 | Some of the very earliest composing machines in Britain had been in use in Edinburgh in the 1860s . |