Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second change has been in share prices themselves : in the 1980s they soared . |
| 2 | [ For third congress in February 1986 see p. 34230 ; the second congress had been in 1980 — see p. 30817 — and the first in 1975 — see p. 27595 . |
| 3 | Madeleine 's second visit had been before his long slide into melancholy . |
| 4 | Once had been at the theatre , when she had walked into the foyer and received a thoroughly unpleasant jolt when she had seen him standing only yards away , and the second time had been at a party . |
| 5 | A fourth cherry had been in the slice the Councillor had just removed and eaten . |
| 6 | That first contract had been for America , and then came Russia , France , Italy , Germany , South America , the list is endless . |
| 7 | His first action had been in Greece in late 1940 : ‘ We soon went to the border , and the Germans invaded from Bulgaria and Yugoslavia which they had romped through . |
| 8 | According to contemporary writers , and repeated regularly ever since then , Piper had already gained fame as the first European to have been behind the Great Wall of China . |
| 9 | Unfortunately for the advertisers , the first battle has been over the least defensible product . |
| 10 | In response , First Edition project director Mark Hodder-Williams said that First Edition had been in operation for nine months , and had successfully provided users with an efficient , fast computer-to-computer service for exchanging a wide range of commercial documents . |
| 11 | My first appearance had been in the Junior Indoor Championships the previous year , when I had been eliminated in the heats . |
| 12 | The first move had been in his choice of the katana as the weapon of combat . |
| 13 | The first meeting had been at York in 1831 ; thereafter the Association visited the university cities of Oxford , Cambridge , Edinburgh and Dublin , before in 1836 venturing to Bristol and subsequently to other large towns . |
| 14 | The first psychiatrist had been on the National Health , but he was useless . |
| 15 | The Bolton area health authority was forced to reveal his identity after he was named in local newspapers , and its chief executive , Richard Sutherland , said last night : ‘ Our first concern has been for the patients involved . |
| 16 | ( a ) How meaningful would the first statement have been to you without this additional information ? |
| 17 | If the bees found the food by smell they would go to the nearest dish ; but , in fact they went to the original dish which the first bee had been to . |
| 18 | Again , all the dishes contained the same scented food , but the bees mainly went to the dish that the first bee had been to . |
| 19 | The first time had been in anger — the second time something very different . |
| 20 | In other words , the introduction and extension of state-pension rights over the course of the twentieth century has been by far the most important mechanism for increasing the effective wealth of the poorer sections of the population . |
| 21 | Now fantastic rumours started to circulate to the effect that the Virgin of Fatima might appear again — her last apparition had been in Portugal on 13 October 1927 . |
| 22 | Taking men of working-class origin of the same age group in 1983 , and signifying unemployment as a separate category , the survey found 22 per cent were upwardly mobile , 40 per cent remained in working-class positions , while a further 11 per cent had been pushed down into unemployment , and over half of this last group had been without work for over a year . |
| 23 | Liverpool have been putting hard-tackling left-back Stig Bjorbye through his paces at Anfield , while members of Norway 's Under-21 side who beat England last month have been on trial at Leeds , Sheffield United , Oldham and Forest . |
| 24 | It said : ’ The balance of evidence over the last month has been towards continued recession . |
| 25 | Indeed , the battle bus spirit in the last week has been at its most buoyant since Day One . |
| 26 | Do n't worry if you 've not been told , it 's very new , and the managers actually over this week and last week have been before the Group Managers effectively having the last bits of training done and workshops before we really launch it to the field . |
| 27 | My last bath had been on the evening of 4th June ; it was now 17th July . |
| 28 | His last call had been to Frick , the man he knew that he must convince . |
| 29 | The last congress had been in 1985 . |
| 30 | The last year had been like a dream , a fairy tale ; but suddenly , as the cameras retreated and the curtains drew on another quiet Balmoral evening , with the Queen insisting on formal dress for dinner , as she does every night , the dream began to dissolve . |