Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last six years he has been assistant curate at St. Barnabas ' Church in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , and he will be instituted as vicar of Saltburn in July . |
| 2 | I could have understood it in Cottee 's case if he had been sweating blood for Everton . |
| 3 | We have been very pleased that in the intervening months , when there has been ample opportunity for discussion and feedback , considerable support for this scheme has been forthcoming . |
| 4 | For goods , there had been tariff-free trade in manufactures since 1972 , but non-tariff barriers would now be removed . |
| 5 | The systematic study of a non-standard system , however , supports the argument that there could have been orderly variation in EModE involving merger and reversal patterns of /a/ and /Ε/; ( or /α/); in certain consonantal environments , and suggests that the usual account of the history of /a/ ( fronting to [ ae ] and subsequent split into two RP phonemes ) is oversimplified . |
| 6 | Pablo Merry del Val , whose father had been Spanish Ambassador in London , conducted briefings for the correspondents and censored their dispatches . |
| 7 | ‘ There has been specific targeting of areas like the Shankill and Ballymurphy areas of West Belfast , ’ said one detective . |
| 8 | A leading figure in the ruling Justicialist Party ( Partido Justicialista — the formal name for the Peronists ) , Lúder had been interim head of state in 1975 ( during the illness of the then President , Maria Estela Martínez de Perón ) , and had sanctioned the commencement of what became known as the military 's " dirty war " ( 1976-1983 ) against " left-wing guerrillas " . |
| 9 | By contrast , in the growth sectors of manufacturing and services within the non-metropolitan regions there have been strong tendencies of concentration in the main settlements . |
| 10 | In the Galloway there has been strong discrimination against red , to the extent that red animals have been falsely maligned as ‘ poor doers ’ , and today the red varieties probably have Devon , South Devon , Red Poll or Shorthorn blood . |
| 11 | At the same time there has been strong pressure from MPs to allow the House of Commons to play a more effective role in these matters . |
| 12 | As you will be aware there has been extensive discussions with NALGO in connection with the arrangements for the necessary Council Tax introduction . |
| 13 | ( 1982 ) have used old Ordnance Survey maps to show that there has been extensive reclamation of moorland on the plateau uplands of the North York Moors , Exmoor , Dartmoor and the Brecon Beacons . |
| 14 | Another change has been extensive draining of moorland ( Stewart and Lance , 1983 ) and this allied to increased sheep numbers and other factors ( Anderson and Yalden , 1981 ) has led not only to a decrease in moorland vegetation but to a reduction in wildlife , notably grouse . |
| 15 | An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such . |
| 16 | Thus on one side there had been complete effacement of party activities , while on the other they ran forward unresisted . |
| 17 | There was , however , this to be said : there had been political involvement under Miall in the 1840s but this had been to achieve a narrow , sectarian goal — disestablishment . |
| 18 | Earlier some engineers had derided this side of the business as mere ‘ ironmongery ’ , and there had also been political constraints on development . |
| 19 | The secretary of the Commission was Geoffrey Cockerill , who had been Private Secretary to Boyle and , for a short while , Crosland . |
| 20 | At times , it looks like little more than nepotism : The Prince of Wales ' last private secretary , Edward Adeane had been a page-of-honour to the Queen in his teens ; his father , Lord Adeane , had been the Queen 's private secretary for nearly twenty years , and his great-grandfather , Lord Stamfordham had been private secretary to George V. George VI 's private secretary , Sir Alan Lascelles , was a cousin of the sixth Lord Harewood , husband of Princess Mary . |
| 21 | Although some of the Wealden towns may have been regional centres for craft specialisation , such as Battle with its leather working and shoemaking , most of them provided a wide range of services which allowed a high degree of virtual self-sufficiency to their surrounding areas . |
| 22 | What had hitherto been regional versions of folk and country music now joined with the former ‘ racist ’ music of the coloured population , creating through cross-fertilisation modern , i.e. ‘ pop ’ , music . |
| 23 | There had been homosexual behaviour at Stowe — as at most British public schools — but Branson had not participated . |
| 24 | Indeed , had the populist programme been realized , the effect would not have been direct transition to socialism at all , but the more rapid development of capitalism . |
| 25 | In part perhaps it was a translation of the Old English ‘ Bretwalda ’ , a title attributed to the high kings of the island from very early days ; in part it may have been direct imitation of Byzantium . |
| 26 | The sample was made up of people whom they judged would probably have been long-stay residents of Powick if that option had continued to be available . |
| 27 | There have also been generous donations from North Road Primary School , where the children raised £148 , and from Route ‘ 66 , in King Street , where the patrons collected £150 to add to funds raised by Richard and Kate Harker through a sponsored drive in their E-type Jaguar . |
| 28 | Around these caputs there would have been dependent settlements with bondmen to work the lord 's land ( called the Mayor settlements in Wales ) . |
| 29 | There 's been universal praise for Gloucestershire 's Emily Bond who 's reached tomorrow 's finals after an aggressive 6-3 6-1 win over Spaniard Eva Borras . |
| 30 | Coupled to this has been careful control over costs . |