Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 22-year old Larne man was devastating in the Baltic country ; indeed , most of his performances on the continent have been top notch . |
| 2 | ‘ His own models of feminity have been extraordinary women — the Queen Mother , who never let a feeling come between her and her duty , and the Queen . |
| 3 | Members of the Worcester Park Machine Knitters Club have been busy knitting items for the Special Care Baby Unit at Kingston Hospital in Surrey . |
| 4 | Figure 8.2 shows that the decline of the private rented sector and the growth of owner-occupation have been long-term phenomena . |
| 5 | Hostility to wealth and demands for its redistribution have been normal features of British politics since the 1890s . |
| 6 | The return of Chalmers to form and his ever-improving tactical maturity have been essential elements in the Scottish success this year . |
| 7 | The return of Chalmers to form and his ever-improving tactical maturity have been essential elements in the Scottish success this year |
| 8 | PHYSIOTHERAPY experts at Teesside Polytechnic have been busy helping pupils from a Middlesbrough school make a video about the dangers of developing brittle bones through unhealthy diets . |
| 9 | Fiscal stability and governmental co-operation have been two features of the tax regime in the past which have encouraged investment in the UK . ’ |
| 10 | Parasol have been pioneering work with puppets for 25 years , originally as part of the Polka Children 's Theatre in Wimbledon . |
| 11 | Advocates of the audio-lingual method have been enthusiastic supporters of the language laboratory as a powerful aid in the automation of language responses . |
| 12 | We have seen that localism and the drift to increasingly authoritarian government have been major problems even for Africa 's more successful leaders , and have been disastrous in other cases such as Uganda and Nigeria . |
| 13 | The worlds of industry and commerce , accountancy and finance , advertising and government have been major recruiters of graduates from the department for many years . |
| 14 | The British Government have been practising euthanasia on the British coal industry and the Rothschild report is about to take that even further . |
| 15 | But I believe that the decisions made to go on the trips this autumn have been good ones . |
| 16 | But I believe that the decisions made to go on the trips this autumn have been good ones . |
| 17 | This might on the one hand have been positive pressure for improvement ; it could equally have been a move to prevent closure . |
| 18 | The two related factors that have worked against an integration of education and training have been traditional recruitment into the professions via Oxbridge , and the view that the summum bonum of English education is A levels . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , many wars in history have been old men 's wars . |
| 20 | The prime movers in developing this structure have been larger firms who can expect favoured treatment in times of expansion , and can transfer adjustment burdens along a chain of subcontractors in recessions . |
| 21 | PUPILS at a Birkenhead primary school have been busy raising cash for starving children . |
| 22 | As noted in Chapter 1 , among the most important factors supporting London 's position have been external economies of scale — the mutual benefits arising from the concentration of financial firms in one location . |
| 23 | As Steve Maine , BT 's director of visual and broadcast services says : ‘ Traditionally , users of videoconferencing have been large corporations , but the VC7000 will enable smaller companies to reap the benefits of visual communication . ’ |
| 24 | Most notable in the first category have been six veterans of the Romanian Communist Party who at the beginning of the year addressed an open letter of defiance to President Ceausescu , telling him that ‘ the very idea of socialism for which we have fought is discredited by your policies ’ . |
| 25 | GLASTONBURY is dominated by the dramatic and mysterious Glastonbury Tor , which towers above the flat landscape of the Somerset Levels , where peat digging and withy growing for basketmaking have been traditional occupations for generations . |
| 26 | The advent of Channel 4 in 1982 provided a space for more minority-orientated programmes than previously : Caribbean accents and occasional use of Creole have been regular features of situation comedies such as No Problem in the early 1980s and Desmonds in the late 1980s to early 1990s . |
| 27 | Norman Brackley 's family have been growing Sweetpeas for 4 generations . |
| 28 | For generations my family have been staunch Conservatives , but I am afraid my immediate family will no longer support a Government which cares little about animal welfare . |
| 29 | Dyed Glassfish have been proven to be susceptible to Lymphocystis and the white marks may not in fact have been white spot . |
| 30 | Injuries and fitness have been topical issues for some time now . |