Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hardest task of all may be that of people choosing to live alone who are either disabled or who have been members of an institution . |
| 2 | Where such a movement has occurred , or there has been rumour and speculation , the Panel should be consulted if it is proposed not to make an immediate announcement . |
| 3 | and I 've had three accidents and I 've been stationery every time , so somebody 's done something to me , so I 've had three |
| 4 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 5 | And I have been years on Bold injections and all the rest of it , and I know from experience you get , you deal with it , it does n't cure the disease but can you see you have a way of dealing with it , of coping with it , of helping yourself er c er do things and therefore you can |
| 6 | A smaller amount was to go to the theological college which I had attended and which has been host to many students from Africa . ) |
| 7 | To do this the study will analyse data from a project undertaken by the Policy Planning Research Unit of the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland which has followed a random sample of some 3,000 young people eligible to leave school in Northern ireland in 1984 and who have been re- interviewed annually until 1987 . |
| 8 | And she had been fool enough to let him draw her in to it . |
| 9 | And she had been party to every stage of his renegotiations . |
| 10 | ‘ One good turn deserves another , you know , and we 've been friends long enough to act neighbourly , have n't we , Albert ? ’ |
| 11 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
| 12 | Some months later I paid him back , ignoring his ridiculous caveats and quibbles about interest rates because they were frankly unintelligible , and we 've been mates and muckers ever since . |
| 13 | Yeah well I know that 's true erm and we 've been power fighting and that 's the problem |
| 14 | The hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , whom I am pleased to call my hon. and learned Friend , and I entered the House on the same day , and we have been friends ever since . |
| 15 | ‘ But those few gigs we did , with me playing guitar and singing harmonies , went down a bomb and we have been partners ever since . |
| 16 | Eggs had not been one of the things left by her unknown benefactor and there had been complaints about the absence of toast soldiers . |
| 17 | A further fifty had been lost in the old days , as they were swung into place by teams of sweating slaves ( and there had been slaves aplenty , in the first days of the Power ) and the great rings had gone crashing into the depths , dragging their unfortunate manipulators with them . |
| 18 | Substantial parts of the urban population were better off in material terms and there had been changes in attitudes . |
| 19 | And there had been seals , too , out on two offshore outcrops of stone , basking in the heat , barking sometimes at them . |
| 20 | Fisons had been targeted by environmentalists for its peat-cutting work on sites of special scientific interest ( SSSIs ) , and there had been signs recently that protests were becoming more militant . |
| 21 | The nose had been smashed , the throat was terribly bruised , and there had been attempts to both burn and boil the remains . |
| 22 | There were ‘ negative phenomena and deformations ’ in relations between the nationalities , as there were in other spheres of Soviet life ; and there had been incidents elsewhere not very different from those in the Kazakh capital . |
| 23 | In the other communities , unemployment was rife , traditional gender roles were less clearly differentiated ( with many women working while the men were unemployed ) , and there had been population movement . |
| 24 | Fabia had a soft spot for dogs , and cats too , for that matter , and there had been talk of her training to be a vet . |
| 25 | Some bookmakers have not been entirely happy with their new placing in the Down Royal set-up and there had been grumblings about taking the matter to a higher authority . |
| 26 | He had been an army officer once and there had been trouble that caused him to leave the army . |
| 27 | Its 1979 census population of about 162,000 was 75.9 per cent Armenian and only 22.9 per cent Azerbaijani , and there had been pressure for some years for its transfer back to Armenia and for a greater degree of autonomy for its predominantly Christian people . |
| 28 | It is not only a colour variety but also a more milky strain of the breed and there have been dairy herds of the beloved ‘ Belties ’ , though they would be better described as dual-purpose cattle . |
| 29 | I know the manner of this same Lord Owen 's disaffection , and I tell you honestly , though I must and will fight with him wherever I may , yet I think his cause not all empty and not dishonourable , and there have been faults committed against him foolishly and grievously , which a man may well resent . |
| 30 | My honourable friend the member for er South Hamms , Madam Deputy Speaker , er gave I thought a a an amusing but perceptive speech about the growth of deregulation , indeed some were saying that deregulation er is in fact the fastest growing part of bureaucracy in Whitehall and there have been calls to deregulate the deregulators er , he is of course quite right that Parkinson 's theory can extend in this area and one can find that deregulation acquires a life and momentum erm of its own . |