Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN Curant 's visits to the racecourse lately have been as a ladies clothing salesman operating from a mobile stand . |
| 2 | The main historical tension here has been between the institution ( typically the university ) and the professional body . |
| 3 | Their last work together had been with a dead child . |
| 4 | It hit sectors and people who largely escaped before , the skilled , the clerical workers , the managers and the professionals who 've been badly mauled this time , and where last time around er the service sector was expanding to mop up some of those who 'd lost their jobs in manufacturing , this time the service sector too has been in deep trouble . |
| 5 | The plan of the ‘ villa ’ thus exhibits unusual features , the main focus apparently having been on bathing and eating . |
| 6 | The focus here has been on Conventionality and Contrast , two pragmatic principles that together govern the lexicon . |
| 7 | The focus of most research into residence abroad has been upon the improvement of linguistic skills whereas this project is to investigate the contribution residence makers to students ' perceptions of the way of life in another country . |
| 8 | Hitherto , our provision here has been at best haphazard , and at worst deplorable . |
| 9 | Race horse trainer … easy life … you 've got to be joking … steeplechasing is all of life always has been to David Nicholson … he was born and bred … turned out and trained on the gallops at Prestbury … |
| 10 | Alone of the 15 union republics , the Russian Federation previously had been without its own Communist Party , its party organizations being an integral part of the CPSU . |
| 11 | As a youngest son his own prospects had been poor — his sojourn abroad had been in the company of his rich younger cousin Francis Whithead , to whom he may initially have acted as tutor — but on the death of his only surviving brother Anthony in 1754 he unexpectedly succeeded to the family estates . |
| 12 | No , I have n't that information , tha that that detail was asked for , but I do know that er that certainly in a majority of cases because they are local erm the attendance from tenants was certainly substantial and I would of , but certainly far more than you would expected if the panel perhaps had been inside a . |
| 13 | There 's no doubt that the street-wisdom of the English forwards has been of huge value to them . |
| 14 | The house alone had been like a dream come true after the two-bedroomed flat on the outskirts of Stirling where she and her mother had lived in near penury for the past seven years since Shiona 's father 's death . |