Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb base] been [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Meanwhile in the main ring there have been displays of everything from parachuting to sheep dog displays .
2 Above all , fidelity to the " open justice " principle keeps Britain free from the reproach that it permits " secret courts " of the kind which have been instruments of repression in so many other countries .
3 Crimes of violence comprise less than 4 per cent of recorded crime , and while crimes of violence have risen rapidly in numbers in the post-war period there have been changes in the pattern of such offences .
4 My club control a water I have been carp fishing for the last three seasons and have just imposed a hair rig ban .
5 In the last decade there have been strike calls from county conferences in the more militant areas like Norfolk , Essex and Yorkshire , but the union 's Executive Committee , which has the sole right to order strike action , has sought to maintain centralized control over any militant activity .
6 In reply , the restructuring school , while agreeing that it is important to distinguish long-term and short-term changes , might argue that within any long-term decentralization there have been periods of crucial importance .
7 We have also seen that for the purposes of civil liability there have been proposals for a generalised statutory scheme for exceptional risks .
8 Of course there have been discussions between the Trust and civil servants but nothing has gone to PESC ( the expenditure talks ) . ’
9 ‘ Of course there have been men , ’ she said with a toss of her head .
10 She 's one of 27 pensioners living in the Aylesbury area who 've been victims of distraction burglaries in the past year .
11 But in every age there have been poets who were uninterested in thus cutting their poems free of any but a linguistic reality , poets who are ‘ realistic ’ and ‘ mimetic ’ in the most straightforward senses of those two complicated words .
12 This season there have been signs that Jane 's early talent is budding anew .
13 Throughout his career there have been calls on Prince by both the US and UK critical establishment to be a better role model , to make himself accountable to some kind of community , to address himself explicitly to the problems of the day .
14 In the past there have been roads named after Shakespeare characters , famous painters and even Nottingham Forest footballers !
15 Over the five days of the championship there have been rumblings about the ice and the stones .
16 with old age , he wants to go for a walk you 've been walkies today ?
17 In other parts of the world there have been cases where it was desired to combine a system of local independent governments with a unifying central administration which would provide strength especially for foreign affairs and defence .
18 On the one hand there have been reports suggesting that the vaccine can cause brain damage , albeit in a tiny minority of children and , on the other , the whooping cough epidemics in recent years have re-awakened fears of the damage the disease itself can inflict .
19 Should a member wish to put forward a resolution for discussion at this meeting , is must be signed by not less than ten members of the National Trust who have been members since 1 January 1990 or earlier and must reach the Secretary at 36 Queen Anne 's Gate , London SW1H 9AS not later than 15 June .
20 Within living memory there have been cathedral organists who have taught their skills to articled pupils .
21 The Chancellor told the Commons House Magazine : ‘ Penetrating the gloom of this last year there have been glimmers of good news .
22 Since the turn of the year there have been nods and winks that Jackson 's job was in jeopardy .
23 This year there have been publications about both .
24 Whatever lucky chances there were and miraculous escapes , all through history there have been despoliations , deprivations , tearings asunder , deaths and devastations , and among those to whom nothing is restored must be people around us , people we see .
25 Even in this century there have been failures .
26 In the Planning Basis for Kent , published in 1948 , we read under Bridges , Halling : " From time to time there have been requests for a bridge at Halling to replace a very inadequate privately owned ferry service .
27 But from time to time there have been cases where ministers , or more often officials , decide that listing is undesirable for what are , frankly , purely political grounds .
28 From time to time there have been limits to the amount that councils can spend per house ( the ‘ cost yardstick ’ ) and minimum standards have been established since the 1967 recommendations of the Parker Morris Committee .
29 For some time there have been rumours that the urbs have been solving the problem by having their foxes caught and surreptitiously turned loose in remote rural areas .
30 Ever since there has been Christmas there have been complaints that it has become over-commercialised .
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