Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb base] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland and the South-West have been exceptions , moving against the national trend since 1981 with an upturn in their population fortunes . |
| 2 | Saddened that polytechnics have been unable to throw off the second-class public image , Teesside University 's director , Dr Michael Longfield said : ‘ The three polytechnics in the North-East have been universities in all but name for many years . ’ |
| 3 | To recap , the winners have been men who were in internal labour markets in the big-name companies and the enterprise group networks . |
| 4 | Petite Forlarty which is a castle in the middle , just on the outskirts of Florence er and e for some reason I mean the c the Italians have been colourists for yonks . |
| 5 | Let me say straight away that I am far from being a male chauvinist ( many of my girlfriends over the years have been females ) , indeed the very first person to introduce me to canoeing was Marianne Tucker who subsequently represented England in the 1960 Olympics . |
| 6 | With effect from the start of an insolvent liquidation of the vendor , unless the court grants leave , the vendor 's company name may not be used by the purchaser if the purchaser or directors of the purchaser have been directors or shadow directors of the vendor during the twelve months preceding the liquidation . |
| 7 | The major proponents of a rules based approach in the UK have been Crew and Rowley ( 1970 , 1971 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ The currency fluctuation between the punt and pound sterling , ’ commented Michael Ryder of Easons , ‘ meant that overall , prices of books published in the UK have been 10% lower in the Republic , which has made things difficult . |
| 9 | The Kurds have been victims of particularly intense repression : there have been fresh attempts to destroy the Kurdish autonomy movement , with the result that a host of Kurdish guerrilla groups now fight with Iran against the Baghdad government . |
| 10 | In the evening I went out to a club , stayed up all night , was late for work the next morning , got sacked and ever since then the rest of the staff have been kind enough to pretend that I 'm still one of them . |
| 11 | While it is true that many of the great names of the past have been theists rather than atheists , their orientation has often been unorthodox when judged against the norms of their day . |
| 12 | The two big flops in the list have been Rolls-Royce and British Steel . |
| 13 | The results have been currency devaluation ( by 80 per cent ) and inflation , with the minimum wage remaining at its pre-SAP level of 125 naira ( $16 ) a month . |
| 14 | It was money that the five leaders withdrew and the results have been cuts that threaten the closure of household waste sites in and in . |
| 15 | Maybe the thought of buying Gazza was the reason Wilko was n't to worried about letting old Batty go … maybe the negotiations have been gong on longer than we know … and maybe ( just maybe ) Wilko has the tape of Urquart in ‘ House of Cards ’ and will use it to save the Monarchy in return for the deportation of all French players with silly shirts ; - ) |
| 16 | The others have been Mick Mills , John Wark , Paul Cooper , George Burley , John Elsworthy , Billy Baxter and Tommy Parker . |
| 17 | Needless to say , associated with all the benefits have been costs . |
| 18 | The landaus have been part of the scene for longer than the trams . |
| 19 | The 600 's usual thinline profile ( body thickness of 1″ ) has been retained on the Atlantis , but the bridge is lower than is usual for a Rick and the pickups have been countersunk to accommodate a lower playing action across the body . |
| 20 | The sufferers have been petrochemicals , textiles , and all the traditional ‘ metal bashing ’ and smokestack industries . |
| 21 | The losers have been women and those , more than two-thirds of all workers , who are outside the core labour market . |
| 22 | The Fowlers have been tenants at Battlelake Farm for 58 years . |
| 23 | ‘ The sad thing is a lot have been people of great importance locally but they go in these homes around they 're forgotten . ’ |