Example sentences of "[vb base] been [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | really s I 've been to dental hygiene cos I thought |
| 2 | Yes and er if I might s oh I er do n't know I 've been to bloody shop meself but I ai n't sorry about it , cos I 've done what I 've wanted to do and I 've enjoyed what I 've done and erm the authorities they get 'd me that on er hardship grounds there , as I say , being on er residential premise and er they showed me great respect and er |
| 3 | Well he 's taken us out when they 've been to bloody shop working and come back and wa I admitted that , but I mean just to go out for an evening . |
| 4 | I 've been on automatic pilot for 25 years . |
| 5 | And it 's er er we go to Ffestiniog power station to have a drink and then come to er er well we 've been at Royal Hotel at Betsy-Coed these last years or two . |
| 6 | They have been extremely efficient and effective in carrying out their onerous tasks , and they 've been of enormous assistance in ensuring the smooth running of this enquiry , and indeed it has run smoothly . |
| 7 | ‘ I was here in good shape , but I 've been in good shape at other championships and failed . |
| 8 | I 've been in regular contact with Earl 's Court Project and a lot of my friends down there . |
| 9 | Now , you may not realize it but you 've been in civil litigation and criminal litigation , you 've been doing advocacy all term . |
| 10 | I 've not been against lines of communication , I 've been against excessive expenditure on such . |
| 11 | Quite a number of experiments leading to such identification have been with small aspect ratio Bénard convection ( Sections 22.1 , 22.4 ) [ 87 , 181 , 246 ] ; small in this context means not much greater than unity . |
| 12 | All four have been on unconditional bail since October last year . |
| 13 | Since then they have been on active duty in Aden , Persian Gulf , Malaya , Borneo , Northern Ireland , and Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf . |
| 14 | Fire crews have been at full stretch dealing with flooded houses mainly in the Cotswolds . |
| 15 | Foreigners are flooding the market — in the last three weeks alone , six Norwegians have been to Premier League clubs on trial . |
| 16 | Calls for innovation and for productivity related ‘ intensive ’ growth have been to little avail . |
| 17 | Some of the most effective recruitment campaigns I have worked with have been for limited commitment . |
| 18 | The Liberal governments of 1906–14 introduced new principles of social policy which have been of lasting importance , but in accordance with no conscious grand design directed at Cabinet level . |
| 19 | Declining costs of information have been of critical importance in spurring the international growth of service firms and the service functions within manufacturing firms . |
| 20 | Of all the wonderful cricketers to come from the West Indies , it is fair to say that five have been of outstanding importance . |
| 21 | The rapidity of Japan 's economic and political transformation and the enduring influence of Tokugawa practices and ideas into this century mean that in Japan , as in other late industrializers such as the USSR , agricultural issues and the impact of the rural sector have been of crucial importance throughout the past 150 years . |
| 22 | Among these colour and texture have been of prime importance , but durability has always been valued in civilized societies concerned with maintaining wealth . |
| 23 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 24 | In any case , if enterprise zones are the model , the overwhelming evidence is that financial incentives have proved the driving force , and that liberalized planning regimes have been of limited significance . |
| 25 | Certainly the solutions to the ‘ black problem ’ of the past 200 years have been of limited vision — hostile , intolerant and frequently brutal . |
| 26 | These two treatises gave classic expression to the opposing arguments about the eucharist , and they have been of great interest to theologians ever since . |
| 27 | Clearly a canal from that small seaport village to the foot of Coniston Water would , in the earlier years at least , have been of considerable benefit to the mine and to other lake users . |
| 28 | Very rightly , Mr. Beloff has presented arguments to the court , which have been of considerable assistance , and which were in favour of the plaintiffs and not of the Bank of England on the main issue of principle . |
| 29 | However , they have been of considerable value in that they have challenged the assumptions of many gerontologists and policy makers and forced a closer examination of our knowledge about health and ageing in later life . |
| 30 | But , whatever their idiosyncrasies and complexities , this highly individual body of printers served the book well and , if they sometimes failed in their human relationships , achieved in print a beauty and harmony that have been of inestimable benefit to us all . |