Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the crisis began in the late 1970s , spending on education below tertiary level has been at rock bottom and health little better . |
| 2 | The burden of Russia 's social backwardness could not be thrown off as quickly as the threat of political counterrevolution had been by the end of the Civil War . |
| 3 | Our Regional Association has been through difficult times , mainly due to isolation and communication problems . |
| 4 | It reminded me how quiet my rocky tooth had been for at least a week or two now … |
| 5 | In response to Air Ministry Specification R14/24 calling for a large , long-range flying-boat , Blackburn Aircraft ventured into this field for the first time in 1924 with their RB.1 Iris ( Blackburn 's previous flying-boat experience had been with the diminutive N.1B and Pellet single-seat designs ) . |
| 6 | His French accent had been through the grinder in the New World , so that he sounded like a gangster in a B movie . |
| 7 | Their crushing electoral defeat of 1983 in conjunction with the realisation that their share of the popular vote has been in steady decline since 1951 has , however , forced a reassessment . |
| 8 | The Jamaican born bowler has been in superb form in the Cheltenham Festival … on Wednesday his bowling against Essex could swing the match . |
| 9 | Elizabeth Schwarzkopf was another " must " even though the ticket cost a " phenomenal amount " to the girl whose own first public appearance had been in a best dress made from the contents of the poor box . |
| 10 | India has a number of diseases all her own , but if there is any suggestion that a foreign filly has been on the loose in a British stud she is rejected as unclean . |
| 11 | The most marked shift has been between different sectors : the percentage of output ( Gross Domestic product , or GDP ) accounted for by manufacturing has decreased while the proportion attributable to service industries has increased . |
| 12 | The conciliation staff did a bit of homework , and found out how fond Swindown had been over the years for concealing motion and valve gear between the frames , which did not arouse enthusiasm amongst the more portly fitters , who had plenty of experience of these delights with the collective works of F.W. Webb and other C.M.E. 's designs . |
| 13 | Erm I great exception to that because the savings on his side may be public transport has been at the expense of the workers in public transport and the people who use public transport . |
| 14 | Does he appreciate that for every single day that he and his right hon. Friend have been in office in Whitehall place , we have similarly lost 25 farm workers and 14 farmers ? |
| 15 | The old Gothic was felt to be as inadequate in the 1890s as the old meeting-house had been in the 1860s so plans were made for a new building worthy of their pastor whose fame was rapidly increasing . |
| 16 | This cultural factor has been to the commercial benefit of West Germany since the ‘ economic miracle ’ of the 1950s . |
| 17 | This cultural factor has been to the commercial benefit of West Germany since the ‘ economic miracle ’ of the 1950s . |
| 18 | If the hon. Gentleman had been in earlier , he would have heard the hon. Member for Harrow , East ( Mr. Dykes ) saying that last week he had attended a debate on this subject in the Bundestag . |
| 19 | A 32 year old manager may be full of vigour , enthusiasm and malleable but a 52 year old manager has been through a couple of recessions , knows the ropes and cap pull a few more rabbits out of the hat . |
| 20 | First , we should remember that the British economy has been in relative decline compared to the rest of the world for a hundred or more years — long before there was ever any concern expressed about adversary politics . |
| 21 | The final indignities suffered by our old church has been in the last few years . |
| 22 | Since its acquisition two years ago of Consumers Gas of Canada , a company with nearly ten years experience in NGV development , British Gas has been in the forefront of NGV research — in which it invests over £1 million a year in the UK . |
| 23 | But since that time British manufacturing has been on a strengthening long-term trend . ’ |
| 24 | And why not ? — the British Army had been in Osnabrück since 1945 . |
| 25 | Peripherality is a major source of the economic problems of depressed regions in Europe , and the British government has been at pains to stress the role of the Channel Tunnel in reducing Britain 's isolation from potential markets . |
| 26 | The old man had been with her in the shop that morning , the same as ever , gossiping about the business , about the vagaries of their customers , the oddities of town councillors and the perverseness of families — all with a humour that was wickedly spiced . |
| 27 | If you ask in general , why social science has been in so selective in its use of Freud , and so one-sided in its interpretation , the answer seems to be , that since the nineteen twenties and up until very recently , Western social science has been primarily dominated by what I would call , cultural determinism , and by that I mean , a school of thought which believes that , to use a term borrowed from one of its founding fathers , Emile Durkheim , social facts have social causes . |
| 28 | Each new Brother electronic model has been with me very soon after its launch . |
| 29 | In my experience most people who suffer a myocardial infarct have been under pressure with associated exhaustion and fatigue for a prolonged period . |
| 30 | Laing has never felt that being a compassionate employer has been at odds with doing the right thing commercially . |