Example sentences of "been [noun] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have even been attempts to stage biographies , one of the first being Loring 's Billy the Kid ( see page 30 ) . |
| 2 | There have even been attempts to pressurise Desmond Haynes , the island 's sole representative , into joining the boycott . |
| 3 | Although there have been attempts to assess penetrance in the two phenotypes of Gardner and simple polyposis that have shown low penetrance , these have relied on the expression of cancer or the extraintestinal features . |
| 4 | There have been attempts to explore similarities in terms of historical links . |
| 5 | The stories of Sigurd and Wayland seem to have been particularly popular , and while , as R.N. Bailey has argued , such carvings could have been attempts to link pagan with Christian belief , one is still driven to the conclusion that they " may have appealed to tastes and interpretations which were based more on the traditions of Scandinavia than the Christian Fathers " . |
| 6 | There have also been attempts to produce parse trees for input using probabilistic techniques . |
| 7 | The headlines should have been KELLY KEEPS GIGGS IN HIS POCKET . |
| 8 | He says : ‘ There have always been mail orders firms and telephone shopping and , at one stage , we were supposed to be on the verge of TV shopping . |
| 9 | There has been talk linking Jagger and Carla , 25 , since last year . |
| 10 | 11.2 At the same time , the Department recognises that it has long been practice to seek assistance from the police in certain situations , particularly in order to avoid a breach of the peace when carrying out statutory duties which involve the restriction of liberty and removal of persons . |
| 11 | Even what appears to be what Adam Smith called an " offensive " combination — one which " without any provocation … combine of their own accord to raise the price of their labour " — may turn out to have been workers taking advantage of a temporary shift in the labour market to restore previously enjoyed conditions of employment . |
| 12 | So far there 's been body swap movies , twin movies , underwater monster movies , one cop and his dog movies , baseball movies , lambada movies even . |
| 13 | Its not every jockeys dream to want to ride at Cheltenham … take Jon Trice-Rolph from Moreton In Marsh in Gloucestershire … he 's been point to point champion twice in the last four years and just enjoys himself |
| 14 | Could that 8-way SunBox we 're looking for ( UX No 429 ) have been code named Scorpion ? |
| 15 | In cases where there have been failures to make applications to licensing courts in time for them to be heard at statutory sittings , the Court of Session has been petitioned for directions , in virtue of its nobile officium , to licensing courts to hold special sittings to deal with non-timeous applications . |
| 16 | There have also been moves to reduce reliance on the Welfare State and to change the dependency culture by increasing self-reliance ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 17 | In that case there must have been genes controlling variation in caddis houses , for selection can not produce adaptations unless there are hereditary differences among which to select . |
| 18 | Should n't it have been Susan asking Yorke how he intended to use the knowledge ? |
| 19 | Hitherto galleries had been living-rooms presenting pictures as ‘ adjuncts to polite living ’ , but Kasmin had fallen for the new American abstract painting and wanted the clean New York look to go with it — the neutral , bare , well-lit space demanded by the strictures of the art . |
| 20 | In low-risk patients there is no effect of aprotinin on graft patency ; in high-risk patients there have been reports suggesting graft occlusion in patients receiving the drug . |
| 21 | What had been convention became part of the natural , common-sense universe of catholic — nationalist ideology . |
| 22 | A Kaolin glacier was an example of the last-named ( Lewis and Miller , 1955 ) but much more extensively used have been measurements using rainfall simulators especially in relation to erosion experiments , flumes , wave tanks and wind tunnels . |
| 23 | There had just been time to push Eric to the floor in the back . |
| 24 | We should have realized at the time that in the emergency of AD 196 there would not have been time to build walls round town defences . |
| 25 | There had n't been time to get Maxim 's name on the usual notice of forthcoming visitors to the embassy ; she had been signalled by the Security Service who shared the Steering Committee 's deep distrust of the visit and wanted her to debrief him after his meeting . |