Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [been] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are usually quite a mixed group , some of whom have had bad experiences at school or have been long term truants . |
| 2 | Since the Williams Report , the only books which have been prosecuted have either glorified illegal activities , such as the taking of dangerous drugs , or have been hard-core pornography lacking any literary pretension or sociological interest . |
| 3 | Vadinamia has its own ultra-tight security that has been frustrating spies for a long time . |
| 4 | A COLLECTION of unusual antiques that has been 30 years in the making will go under the hammer this weekend . |
| 5 | As a result of the ‘ literate mentality ’ that these institutions helped to form in England , and to which Lyons and fellow academics now subscribe , later historians , looking back to records of eleventh century England , tended to discard medallions , seals and other material objects that had been major criteria of validation in the oral culture of that period . |
| 6 | Have n't talked since that marvellous Bassanio you did at the Vic ’ — that had been fifteen years before — ‘ lovely performance . ’ |
| 7 | For example , the addition of magnesium fertilizers in Norway and Germany 's Black Forest has resulted in recovery in young spruce trees that had been suffering chlorosis ( Printz , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | Silence fell as Creggan and the other eagles that had been listening thought about what Minch had told them . |
| 9 | But my experience is also , if we 'd bought the books that had been printed neighbours in the first place , no one would have noticed the difference . |
| 10 | All that had been two months ago . |
| 11 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 12 | The high-ups at Drury Lane are anxious to send whole companies — actresses as well as actors — in plays that have been popular London successes . ’ |
| 13 | I think if anything can stop some of the things happening to youngsters that have been this year then it is a good thing . |
| 14 | It may be able to detect the entire NCSA virus library , but it 's still oblivious to some viruses that have been common knowledge for many months . |
| 15 | If it feels like cotton , wears like polyester and holds color like cotton , it must be — Tencel , the new Courtaulds fibre that 's been 10 years and $200 million in the making … |
| 16 | joined the Group with the acquisition of of Trowbridge in May 1978 and has been regional buyer for the north west region since March 1985 . |
| 17 | Curt Fredrikson founded the Swedish Debt Surveillance operation , and has been Managing Director of the Swedish wing of Justitia since 1985 . |
| 18 | As the right hon. Gentleman was Chancellor before it started and has been Prime Minister throughout its course , is it not clear that he is not only the Prime Minister of recession , but the prime cause of recession ? |
| 19 | As a director of public health , and having been chief officer to a health authority for some 17 years and having experienced more reorganisations than I care to remember , I can see the career turbulence that the current reforms are producing for some senior doctors in public health medicine . |
| 20 | He had led the party since 1984 , succeeding Dom Mintoff [ see p. 33794 ] , and had been Prime Minister from then until the party 's defeat in 1987 . |
| 21 | Allegations had been first made against Papandreou and three other politicians in connection with their dealings with the bank in late 1988 [ see p. 36562 ] and had been one factor in the electoral victory of the New Democracy party in April 1990 . |
| 22 | Beattie was a senior foreman and had been twenty years with his company . |
| 23 | Nowhere do you mention the several hundred thousand Arabs ( Muslims , Christians ) who carry Israeli passports and have been second-class citizens for the past 45 years . |
| 24 | Captain Sturt was the great explorer who had discovered the Murray River , and have been some years in New South Wales before coming to Adelaide , where he was Colonial Secretary . |
| 25 | In a similar way , as we shall find later , although the widowed and still married give similar pictures of the practical division of roles in their married lives , the widowed tend to interpret these apparently similar marriages differently , remembering themselves as having been closer couples than do those who are still married . |
| 26 | This is another welcome return as having been available running under SuperCalc 5 there has been a period in which this was no longer available . |
| 27 | There were no questions or interjections from the floor of the Chamber , as is customary in the British House of Commons , and as had been common debating practice during the Second Republic . |