Example sentences of "[been] [conj] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basis of the Good Friday belief appears to have been that on that day the soil is redeemed from the power of Satan — the old chthonic god of the pre-Christian religion — and for this brief time he has no influence on it at all . |
| 2 | The effect of this change in responsibility has been that in many schools the provision of meals and the supervision of children during the mid-day break has drifted out to the margins of importance and there has been , in general , a gradual decline in the numbers of children receiving cooked meals on school premises . |
| 3 | The result has been that in many GIS spatial queries initiated by the user must be formulated in terms of a software-specific command language . |
| 4 | The result has been that in some cases the insurance premiums which manufacturers have to pay to protect themselves are so high as to make it no longer profitable for them to remain in business . |
| 5 | She had an idea where the first sniper had been but in any case he could have moved . |
| 6 | To his amazement , the very results that he had been after for several years were achieved . |