Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | perhaps the best-known attempt to make such a link has been by Peter Hall . |
| 2 | Since 1980 a proposal has been under discussion for a Directive which could require companies to introduce procedures for informing and consulting employees ; it became known as the ‘ Vredeling Directive ’ . |
| 3 | Disputes about whether a reference had been to an expert or an arbitrator have produced many lawsuits . |
| 4 | But it is not the tampons that cause the disease but the bacteria which develops when a tampon has been in too long . |
| 5 | There is , however , a difference between imposing liability where the company has collapsed and it emerges that a director has been in total dereliction of duty or something close to it , and using the law to promote managerial dynamism . |
| 6 | The County Council I full well remember some four years ago made a decision that once a site had been in peril , once a decision was made it should n't be brought back into the arena again . |
| 7 | Although it is less the case now than in the past , the longer a person has been on a particular committee the greater the likelihood that he or she will eventually succeed either to its chair or to the senior minority party position . |
| 8 | Similarly , because the IfS considers the number of weeks a person has been without work since their previous job , those who have never had a job are also excluded . |
| 9 | He and a friend had been on a cycling tour of the Himalayas , when they paid for the papers from a local travel agent . |
| 10 | A bridge has been on this site from the 14th century . |
| 11 | The interior was probably quite well furnished in the ordinary way , but right now it looked as if a tornado had been through it . |
| 12 | In the case where a Bill has been before a committee of the whole House , it is a purely formal stage . |
| 13 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 14 | FIG. 2 Regressions of length mortality data against the number of days a cohort had been under observation during its first growing season , with the line forced through the origin . |
| 15 | A fox had been in the night and left footprints in the dew , right up to the kitchen wagon . |
| 16 | Looking for a win has been like chasing the holy grail … for Swindon … they 've travelled far and wide … some cynics thought they 'd never find it … |
| 17 | It was also noted by the Court of Appeal , at p. 379C , that the Report of the Review Committee on Insolvency Law and Practice ( 1982 ) ( Cmnd. 8558 ) under the Chairmanship of Sir Kenneth Cork considered that the power , contained in any well-drawn floating charge , to appoint a receiver and manager of the property and undertaking of a company had been of outstanding public benefit . |
| 18 | A ceasefire had been in force in Cambodia since May 1 [ see pp. 38194-95 ] . |
| 19 | But the rhetoric of the past quarter of a century has been about prosperity founded on technology as advanced as that found anywhere , and about economic power to match that of the United States and Japan . |
| 20 | It looked as though a grader had been over it just before the Amazonian rains had spilled over the Andes . |
| 21 | ‘ A guy had been on the roof . |
| 22 | Further , the longer a party has been in opposition , the fewer of its leaders will have had ministerial office . |
| 23 | He stated that a man with an accent had been to his shop at about 1.30pm on 22 June . |
| 24 | It was suggested that one of the reasons for this was that his main work as an advocate had been on behalf of trade unions , and on one occasion he had walked out of the National Industrial Relations Court in protest at the judge . |
| 25 | An ancestor had been to the crusades , another had captured Harry Hotspur at the Battle of Otterburn in 1388 , and a Count Montgomerie had accidentally killed King Henry II of France in a jousting contest . |
| 26 | The protection is acquired once an employee has been in a particular employment for two years , though there are special rules concerning part-time employees and for calculating the date up to which the continuous employment is measured . |
| 27 | It would have been an education to have been in the House when the Minister spoke . |
| 28 | In the example of Alex in the chapter no allowance was made for the fact that an item had been in use for some time . |
| 29 | And why should any criminal have co-operated in this process of falsification unless an inducement had been on offer ? |