Example sentences of "been [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ There could have been survivors aboard that plane . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Unless it was sentimental to want to remember a time when he and this girl had not been strangers to each other . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He said there had been difficulties in some committee meetings in trying to achieve a quorum and said payments should be made as an award for members who attended . |
| 15 | ‘ The Northern Regional Health Authority are well aware there have been difficulties in this district . |
| 16 | Although there have been theories in this area which would suggest a linear relationship between arousal and performance ( e.g. Hull , 1943 ) the most common claim is that the two variables are related by the curvilinear pattern known as the inverted-U hypothesis ( e.g. Hebb , 1955 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ And indeed we might say that the very greatest soldiers — Joshua , David , Alexander — who lent me one of my Christian names — Caesar , of course , our own great Alfred — the only king we call Great — Edward — and we could extend the list into the present — all have been scholars in some manner . |
| 18 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 19 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 20 | They have worked together and have been friends for some time . |
| 21 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 22 | ‘ We have been pioneers in many areas over the years , ’ said Dave Butterworth , managing director . |
| 23 | ‘ We have been pioneers in many areas including computational fluid dynamics in furnace design , research into compact heat exchangers , the exploitation of laser techniques in detailed flow measurement , and integrating advanced thermal design software with process simulators , ’ continues Dave Butterworth . |
| 24 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 25 | As myth and menace merge , there have been clashes in several towns : in neighbouring Faizabad , five Muslims and one Hindu were killed . |
| 26 | Because some of these have been issues in this country , this work . |
| 27 | According to dozens of villagers , journalists , and workers for the opposition candidate , the journalist grandson of Mahatma Gandhi , Mr Rajmohan Gandhi , who is no relation to the incumbent Prime Minister , there have been scores of such incidents in Amethi in systematic attacks that suggest that they have had sanction from higher authority . |
| 28 | There have been drawings on those investments , though , mainly , the the the main two have been to fund the redundancies associated with the reorganisation , and to grant a dowry to N A C V S , on its independence from the Council . |
| 29 | Carbon monoxide has no smell and if your appliance has n't been services for some time you may now be in danger . |
| 30 | ‘ There have been approaches by several institutions but we are not considering new ventures as a priority , ’ he says . |