Example sentences of "they [vb base] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been art celebrities since then and , although the scale of their work has increased — pictures can now include several people , and stretch up to ten metres across — the real subject remains G&G ( as they sometimes describe themselves ) . |
| 2 | Oh no , so they 've been Ireland have they ? |
| 3 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 4 | And they 've been friends long enough to take each other for granted , turn up when they feel like it , and shut up when they 're busy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Even when they 've been pureed , I suppose . |
| 7 | I do n't know oh They 've been telly that Tom give us , that give us and then I did n't put on |
| 8 | It 's been like this over a number of issues ever since the children were small , but it 's got worse since they 've been teenagers . |
| 9 | They 've been sort of so falsely jolly in the past , it sickens me . |
| 10 | But inevitably they 've been sort of thrown in a corner and people have fiddled around with them like I 've fiddled around with this and we find we got what , twenty or thirty of these missing . |
| 11 | There are punching sound effects and speech ( via the internal speaker or sound card ) but the boxers react like a stuffed dummy when they 've been punch . |
| 12 | They 've been ballroom dancing in Cheltenham Town Hall for 50 years now . |
| 13 | The conventional style , gears , whether they 've been power or or manual , as develops erm more of the sort of business on those type applications , yeah , then basically it increases overall share and then it puts pressure on the business that we 've got on the other D group ball bearings . |
| 14 | They go on a list and they can not get work simply because they 've been activists . |
| 15 | Wasps , though , can point to a mighty league record — in four seasons they have been champions , second ( twice ) and third . |
| 16 | They have been champions of various things in four of the past five seasons compared with only two previous post-war Welsh Championships and one cup . |
| 17 | They have been jaw locking , tail shaking and they always move around the tank together . |
| 18 | The Meikle family consists of David and Catherine , Robert ( 12 ) , Shona ( 7 ) and Johann ( 3 ) and they have been members of Kirkintilloch Baptist Church for four years . |
| 19 | They have been members of some very dodgy Latvian old-pais club but nothing else is known . |
| 20 | Cubes can be very useful for horses with allergy problems , particularly if they have been steam pelleted . |
| 21 | Oats are the safest and most natural grain to give to horses ; they have been part of the development of the horse over the last two thousand years . |
| 22 | This paper has largely been limited to the processes within education — the ways they have been part of a wider process of economic and political domination have been little more than hinted at . |
| 23 | They have been radiocarbon dated to about the 9th or 10th centuries AD and seem to have been intended for use in ceremonies associated with an important priest . |
| 24 | Other additions , we did earlier Chair , and that is we have received a mental illness specific grant , erm , on a number of schemes but they have been time limited , and they are due to cease , some of them are due to cease in the coming year . |
| 25 | Since everyone has a right to treatment whether they have been contributors or not , it is difficult to justify . |
| 26 | Instead , the same flat rate applies to everyone , multiplied by the number of years in which they have been participants of the scheme . |
| 27 | They have been charge capped and have been forced to make cuts and the Tory group themsleves felt that the Government spending limits were unfair . |
| 28 | The longer they have been Christians and the more they have been preoccupied with their Christian activities , the more difficult it becomes to relate their beliefs to the perceived needs of their friends . |