Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often , however , the facilities provided for them have been lamentable , not merely basic but squalid — safety and comfort has not been regarded as a priority — a prevailing stench of stewed onions — in stark contrast to the different world , only yards away , in the board room and the lucrative executive boxes . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps if the age-gap of eight years between them had been less … perhaps if she herself had stayed at home for a few years instead of finding separate lodgings as soon as she 'd finished her A levels and joined Grantham and Marsh as a junior copywriter … |
| 3 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 4 | And so though we have all sinned and that circle , that perfect purpose of God for you and for me has been warped and distorted out of all recognition , the potential that God had for you and for me , it 's been dis it seems to have been destroyed because of the warping and because of the impact of sin . |
| 5 | And the years when she had had no-one to look after her had been disastrous . |
| 6 | Our shooting permits , after what had been eleven months of filming , were due to expire that evening and , though shot at the very end , the sequence on Anak Krakatoa was intended to introduce the very beginning of our whole ten years of adventure films . |
| 7 | However , it 's all extremely well played , the Waltz is light as air , and the Elegy all the more moving for its having been relieved of any hint of bogus pathos . |
| 8 | His diary records that he was accompanied by Broad , Brig Floyd ( COS Eighth Army ) and Air Commodore Benson ( Head of Military Government ) all of whom had been present at his meeting with McCreery . |
| 9 | Said widow and her late husband had been kind to on his 1991 visit to the USA , and had originally met via very old friends of ours here — husband of whom had been one of Jack 's first students in New Zealand in about 1950 ! |
| 10 | In Tanzania , WWF provided emergency funds to cover a highly successful anti-poaching sweep , which led to the arrest of more than 1,000 people , ranging from the poachers themselves to corrupt officials , many of whom had been involved in the ivory trade . |
| 11 | As in the previous demonstrations , a large number of those attending were middle class , some of whom had been involved in the demonstrations of 1973 ( which had effectively deposed the existing military dictatorship — see pp. 26209-10 ) and had also witnessed the army massacre of students at Thammasat University three years later [ see pp. 28102-03 ] . |
| 12 | When Two Left Feet was eventually released , critics pointed out that it had become dated , but there was general praise for the performances of Crawford and his two female co-stars , all of whom had been unknown when they made the film but had become names by the time it was shown in cinemas . |
| 13 | Their numbers include the Augustinians and Dominicans , both of whom have been influential in Ireland and have produced theologians of liberal or left persuasion . |
| 14 | The history of forms in art has had some distinguished advocates , some of whom have been concerned with the transformation over time of one form to another ; others have been more attracted to problems of values , arguing either that styles in art change and decay , or that in a particular period there is an artistic will to produce work in a style of its own . |
| 15 | All of whom have been second-guessed by Ollie , who romps his plodmobile ( definitely not a Lagonda ! ) gaily down the Bayswater Road , barrels up Piccadilly , even throttles back on the vacant Euston Road to give the competition a sporting chance . |
| 16 | When he switched the light on and dragged the bedclothes back , he saw that his image of them had been perfect . |
| 17 | She had had a few in her short life and none of them had been pleasant . |
| 18 | One of them had been unconscious for a while . |
| 19 | Most of them had been due to efforts on the spot by units of the Red Army . |
| 20 | If 13 of them had been nasty , Tit for Tat would n't have won . |
| 21 | The only thing that linked them was the embarrassing albatross of a marriage in whose death both of them had been guilty . |
| 22 | Philip of Swabia , meanwhile , was maintaining the illegality of the meeting on the grounds that there was a legitimate heir , that oaths had been taken to that heir by all the princes and that , furthermore , few of them had been present at Andernach . |
| 23 | She maintained that both of them had been innocent and that their trial had been unjust [ see also pp. 36905 ; 36987 ] . |
| 24 | Especially as I found one of them had been sick in the spare room . |
| 25 | But none of them had been interested enough to come up with an offer . |
| 26 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |
| 27 | One of them 's been two or three times , this was , I think this was her fourth time , so she went away to F Florida , away over to the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 28 | They were allowed to see it for one hour , before it was taken back , and none of them has been able to get hold of it since . |
| 29 | Suppose , for example , that up until today I have observed a large number of ravens under a wide variety of circumstances and have observed all of them to have been black and that , on that basis , I conclude , ‘ All ravens are black ’ . |
| 30 | The promotion prospects of the geologists were almost non-existent , some of them having been Temporary Acting Geologists for over 20 years with no pension rights . |