Example sentences of "been [noun pl] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been profiles of him that suggested that he was a jogger who had been bitten by one of Alex ‘ Down Sir ’ Snell 's pit-bulls . |
| 2 | There may have been times during your working life when you have not , either knowingly or unwittingly , paid national insurance contributions . |
| 3 | There had been times in her life when she had been — if not happy , then content . |
| 4 | I know nothing about Mr McLachlan he does not appear in Who 's Who : whether he hails from Scotland , Ireland , Korea or Czechoslovakia ; whether he is Catholic , Presbyterian or Buddhist ; whether he is married with children ( sorry , kids ) or celibate ; whether there have been tragedies in his life , or whether it has been an uninterrupted progression to his present exalted situation . |
| 5 | In the past few years there have been signs of its introduction and extension by manufacturing organisations experiencing increasing volatility in their markets , increasing inability to predict their manpower requirements and increasing pressures to minimise labour costs . |
| 6 | ‘ Have there been attempts on your father 's life before ? ’ |
| 7 | There have been calls for his resignation , which he has ignored . |
| 8 | The result of this unique situation has been that , although there have been disagreements about which specific reactor type should be built , governments of both main political parties have nearly always accepted the UKAEA 's general pro-nuclear arguments . |
| 9 | The process usually involves the stimulation of indigenous subsurface microorganisms to degrade chemicals on-site , although there have been cases in which microorganisms with some specialised metabolic capabilities have been added . |
| 10 | The cases to which I have so far referred have all , bar one , been cases in which a wife has given security or become a surety for her husband 's obligations . |
| 11 | At the same time , there have been cases in which ‘ the inference of illegal conspiracy ’ has been drawn from ‘ detailed similarity of behaviour ’ . |
| 12 | The political speakers , who would have been YCs in their day , knew that they should be brief . |
| 13 | There had been doubts about which would break first , Christmas or booksellers ' spirits . |
| 14 | Florence Nightingale has been the inspiration for twentieth-century nursing ; every now and then a historian attempts to point out that there may have been aspects of her life which were not quite so saintly as we believe , but this does not shatter her image . |
| 15 | We are proud to have been supporters of him and the team . |
| 16 | Hoyland saw his job as trying to impose some order on his boss 's whirlwind operating methods , which had caused such irritation amongst the others that there had been demands for his dismissal . |
| 17 | There was none to be seen in this small guest room , but there 'd been shelves of them lining two walls in the sitting-room overlooking the Thames . |
| 18 | An anniversary poem went to the Queen , and many MPs have been recipients of his comments couched in rhyme on subjects from food irradiation ( he 's an opponent ) to saving the Antarctic . |
| 19 | The Richardson boys had been visitors to her house for a long time . |
| 20 | Claims for religious motivation behind the pursuit of science are difficult to test , but there have been circumstances in which they seem appropriate . |
| 21 | One gate that he could open himself let him into a front garden patrolled by two Dobermans , but he was okay with dogs because there had always been dogs at his mother 's home , and at his grandparents ' home . |
| 22 | But there have never been writings about him . |
| 23 | And these disciples and Jesus , some of them seasoned , experienced fishermen , they 'd been fishermen all their lives , their fathers had been fishermen before them and they were frightened ! |
| 24 | While there have indeed been advances in our ability to invent new materials the principles upon which the properties of materials depend have not altered . |
| 25 | There had been cries for his public execution but Jamel Mobuto had made it quite clear that Ngune would be tried and , if found guilty , sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 26 | Recounting the history of Bilmarsh farm , Gough observed : ‘ Nathaniell Reve had a desire to been tenant of this farme , because his grandfather and father had been tenants to it before ’ . |
| 27 | There had been problems in his relationship with his girlfriend and indeed he 'd come to see my firm about six months ago because of the deterioration in that relationship and had general advice then about his legal position should there be a separation . |
| 28 | Mr Winner , most of whose efforts with the camera thus far have been studies of his girlfriend , actress Jenny Seagrove , was paid £200 by the book 's publishers for his Gielgud picture . |
| 29 | Fingerspelling has been available longer and there have been studies of it . |
| 30 | Furthermore , ‘ there have been questions about his loyalty ’ , for Alderson has had the temerity to caution the service about an apparent drift towards paramilitarism . |