Example sentences of "been [noun] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The person in New York you sent a letter to on Beatrix 's behalf-could her name have been van Ryneveld rather than van Ryan ? ’ |
| 2 | Somebody who used to live next door to you , so it must have been Hartsett Close then . |
| 3 | Amaret Sila-on was a prominent industrialist , while Virabongsa Ramangura was a non-party economics expert , with a reputation for fiscal conservatism ; he had been economics adviser both to Chatichai and to his predecessor Gen. Prem Tinsulanonda . |
| 4 | There had been trade unions before of course , and er activity but not to the same extent between fifteen er nineteen fifty five to sixty , there was a great surge forward . |
| 5 | He 's been Environment Secretary twice and also Defence Secretary . |
| 6 | It has been Bill Heseltine more than anyone else who brought the royal family into the age of the photo-opportunity . |
| 7 | Benny did n't know that Peggy Pine was an old friend of Mother Francis , that they had been girls years ago and that when she came to the convent she called Mother Francis Bunty . |
| 8 | The two men had been Bermondsey waifs together , living on their wits and sleeping beneath the damp , infested arches in the dirt and rubbish . |
| 9 | Forecast Lewis : ‘ It 's going to be a rough battle because they are both good and confident fighters , but I tip Holyfield to win because he 's been world class longer . |
| 10 | Apart from their costumes and the props that they carried , they might have been factory workers anywhere . |
| 11 | It might have been mince meat just ti cooked in tins . |
| 12 | And it is no bad thing that Karajan , whose concerts have been gala occasions now for the best part of forty years , also sold around one hundred million records since he began recording in earnest in 1946 . |
| 13 | They are believed to have been family shrines rather than communal burial places . |
| 14 | Immediately after the fall of the eastern bloc regimes , even the top nomenklatura professed that they had been closet democrats all along , pushing relentlessly for change from within the structures of power . |