Example sentences of "been [noun] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers .
2 ‘ 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 ? ’
3 They , they we they had some guns on the castle and they were , I suppose there must have been enemy planes over .
4 Somebody who used to live next door to you , so it must have been Hartsett Close then .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 He 's been Environment Secretary twice and also Defence Secretary .
8 It has been Bill Heseltine more than anyone else who brought the royal family into the age of the photo-opportunity .
9 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 .
10 The two men had been Bermondsey waifs together , living on their wits and sleeping beneath the damp , infested arches in the dirt and rubbish .
11 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 .
12 Apart from their costumes and the props that they carried , they might have been factory workers anywhere .
13 It might have been mince meat just ti cooked in tins .
14 It had to be a child , Coffin thought , and had n't Mrs Foster been Gilly Slee when he had known her at Hook Road School ?
15 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 .
16 They are believed to have been family shrines rather than communal burial places .
17 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 .
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