Example sentences of "been [noun] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 2 | The story was that there had once been houses on each side of the road but a century or so ago , those on the west had been demolished to add to the parkland . |
| 3 | On the supply side , there had been underinvestment in many areas of primary production for some years . |
| 4 | It has given me great pleasure and pride to have been part of that team . ’ |
| 5 | Ever since the 1930s , when tourists in large numbers began visiting the American Southwest , counterfeit Indian artifacts have been part of that market . |
| 6 | As Hannah moves fluently along her journey into the past , what emerges most strongly to the listener is a sense of privilege — that here is a survivor of a lost way of life which was so innocent and simple , so materially deprived , yet spiritually rich , that it might have been part of another civilization altogether , surviving from an earlier century , perhaps . |
| 7 | Mrs Owain Williams , who has been Chairman of this ball for the last three years , looked very pretty in black velvet . |
| 8 | Until this time , the mainstay of treatment for syphilis had been mercury in some form or other , either by internal administration or in the form of unctions . |
| 9 | It was apparent that there had been money at all periods except the most modem , and taste at some . |
| 10 | Though one might think that all those who left must have been in agreement with the National Socialist ideology , there appear to have been artists of all persuasions who remained members . |
| 11 | On the previous day there had been rallies in many parts of the Russian Federation in support of Yeltsin ( who was under threat of a no confidence vote in the Russian Congress of People 's Deputies as a result of an attack on Gorbachev in February — see p. 38013 ) , and in opposition to Gorbachev and the Union Treaty . |
| 12 | ‘ There could have been survivors aboard that plane . |
| 13 | Since 1985 , there has been action in several prisons over several demands , but perennially the amount of overtime that has to be worked . |
| 14 | Why had he been witness to these events ? |
| 15 | There has been unhappiness in some quarters , occasional misunderstandings and ignorance , and a certain amount of unfortunate iconoclasm . |
| 16 | There have been concerns for some time that IBM Corp was fast running out of cash — the UK subsidiary was reportedly ordered to factor its receivables by its parent at the end of last year after it ran out of cash for its operations , hardly a cheap way of borrowing for a blue chip company , and the Reuter report that it and IBM Credit Corp are seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market ( see page seven ) , seems to confirm it ; at least one source told the news wire that IBM is trying to keep the arrangement very quiet , presumably to avoid generating more alarm than there already is about progress of its business . |
| 17 | As with numerous other mill sites , it has waxed and waned in importance , and over the centuries has been home to many individuals and industries . |
| 18 | lots of all , lots of wire and bricks and stones and old potatoes , you want to see potatoes that grow in that field , there 's never been potatoes in that field before , but there is , we throw all the dicey ones over the fence |
| 19 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 20 | And erm although there 's been sort of all sorts of stuff in the press , have you seen all this stuff in the press about endowments ? |
| 21 | I got paid for August which was quite clever really cos my date would of been sort of half way through to book my holiday |
| 22 | Attacks on adult women were featured in a sustained manner in the search stage in national newspapers only when there had been attacks on several women apparently by the same offender — for instance , a special rape squad was set up when a ‘ sex beast ’ was believed to be responsible for a series of attacks on at least twenty-three women . |
| 23 | As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers . |
| 24 | There 's been criticism by some Euro-sceptics . |
| 25 | The cow , worth thousands of pounds , had been champion of several shows and was due to appear at the National Dairy Event in Warwickshire next weekend . |
| 26 | No one knows exactly how many eligible people there are , because the last firm data comes from the 1981 census ; there have been extrapolations from those figures , but inevitably there is an element of guesswork . |
| 27 | Unless it was sentimental to want to remember a time when he and this girl had not been strangers to each other . |
| 28 | What she did not know was that Moran , with his good looks and military fame , had once been king of these barn dances and now that he had neither youth nor fame would not take a lesser place . |
| 29 | More demonstrably , however , there has in the past been evidence of some feeling in Parliament that the Comptroller and Auditor General should be given the power to audit all public money voted by Parliament , including that voted to nationalized industries . |
| 30 | Though most enterprises in developing countries have been by-standers in many rounds , more are now coming forward to play their part for the future . |