Example sentences of "been [noun sg] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the supply side , there had been underinvestment in many areas of primary production for some years . |
| 2 | It has given me great pleasure and pride to have been part of that team . ’ |
| 3 | Ever since the 1930s , when tourists in large numbers began visiting the American Southwest , counterfeit Indian artifacts have been part of that market . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mrs Owain Williams , who has been Chairman of this ball for the last three years , looked very pretty in black velvet . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was apparent that there had been money at all periods except the most modem , and taste at some . |
| 8 | Since 1985 , there has been action in several prisons over several demands , but perennially the amount of overtime that has to be worked . |
| 9 | Why had he been witness to these events ? |
| 10 | There has been unhappiness in some quarters , occasional misunderstandings and ignorance , and a certain amount of unfortunate iconoclasm . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | There 's been criticism by some Euro-sceptics . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had been runner-up on several occasions during his 20 years with Smith , but it was Sheelagh Boon 's six-year-old Smart Move who gave him his first win when taking the Senior Newcomers Championship . |
| 19 | I believe that had there been television in those days , the British cricket public would have been shocked by what they say and called for an early end to it all , irrespective of the rights and wrongs of Bodyline . |
| 20 | Access to special procedure material can only be obtained by virtue of a warrant issued by a circuit judge who can issue such a warrant either where , prior to the Act , there would have been access to such material and the first set of access conditions apply or where the judge has reasonable grounds to believe ( i ) a serious arrestable offence has been committed . |
| 21 | Well , education having been oversold in that way , erm the pendulum swung very strongly in the opposite direction , and I think , for a while , starting with the so-called ‘ Great Debate ’ under James Callaghan , education became very undersold . |
| 22 | There 's been concern over this area for several years but nothing 's actually been done . |
| 23 | She said , ‘ Oh , there 's happy I 've been with you two , there 's been life in this house , first time I 've known it ! ’ |
| 24 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 25 | Fight as they did to keep the canoe on course they were driven westward of Castiglione ( near Sidi Ferruch ) when they should have been east of this port . |
| 26 | Although there has been consultation throughout all stages of the programme 's development , the team in Glasgow , which includes Elaine Wardrope , Ernst & Young 's marketing manager in Scotland , as well as Lockett , has run the programme day-to-day and dealt with the detailed implementation of the programme . |
| 27 | Its 1979 census population of about 162,000 was 75.9 per cent Armenian and only 22.9 per cent Azerbaijani , and there had been pressure for some years for its transfer back to Armenia and for a greater degree of autonomy for its predominantly Christian people . |
| 28 | Ever since the Second World War , there had been pressure in some circles for a move away from the secular aspects of the state created between the wars by Ataturk . |
| 29 | A smaller amount was to go to the theological college which I had attended and which has been host to many students from Africa . ) |
| 30 | Over the years Reid 's has been host to many people , and its visitors , book reads like an international Who 's Who over the past century . |