Example sentences of "been [noun] [coord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The times and places of striking advance in productivity have by no means generally been times and places of educational advance ; nor , where they have been , is it clear whether this is cause and effect or , if so , which is cause and which effect . |
| 2 | Taskopruzade quotes from his father these words of Hocazade 's : " At the time when I was at the Sultan medrese in Bursa I was thirty-three years old and loved nothing save Taskopruzade goes on to say that Hocazade used to take more pride in having taught at the Sultan medrese than in having been kazasker or Mehmed II's Hoca . |
| 3 | Our anchor has always been faith and family . |
| 4 | 114 ) ; when a member of the court was a shareholder of the brewery company which owned the premises in question : R. V. Gee ( 1901 ) 17 T.L.R. 374 ; when three of the members of a compensation tribunal which refused the renewal of a licence had , along with their fellow justices , instructed a solicitor to oppose the renewal before the tribunal : Frome United Breweries v. Bath JJ. [ 1926 ] A.C. 586 ; when three members of the committee which granted and confirmed a licence had been shareholders and directors of the company on whose behalf the licence was applied for , although they resigned as directors and sold their shares before taking part in the proceedings : R. v. Hain ( 1896 ) 12 T.L.R. 323 . |
| 5 | It could have been hours or minutes later that Isabel found herself staring into a dark pit . |
| 6 | Their mothers and sisters looked upon them in a new way , because until now they had been sons and brothers , but were from that day to be turned into men by the strictest mistress of all . |
| 7 | What they confirm is the complex notion of uneven development outlined in the last section , and how the changing geography of the UK since the mid-'60s has been part and parcel of its wider transformation . |
| 8 | This may well mean developing the range of presentational skills which have been part and parcel of effective classroom teaching for generations . |
| 9 | The choice for the children trapped in the welfare system is therefore not solely between white families and a life of institutional care as we are led to believe ; there are black families willing and capable of opening up their homes to these children , but there have been policies and practices which have prevented this development . |
| 10 | A major worry for patients in psychiatric hospitals has always been money and access to it . |
| 11 | The smoke had been west and north when they had looked from the Ridgery . |
| 12 | ‘ There has always been honesty and integrity in my performance . |
| 13 | Several members of his family had been artists or lovers of art , and Gow himself became no mean collector and connoisseur . |
| 14 | There had been presents and people who had not bothered with her much during the ten years she had worked there became friendly . |
| 15 | There had been research and review carried out by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and by International Movements Towards Educational Change ( IMTEC ) . |
| 16 | And then , of course , Jill Yate knew very little about retailing or the fashion industry ; until a year before , her main interests had been rock and roll and the Beatles , and she fell upon the job at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ as representing part of the faded Sixties pop culture she loved . |
| 17 | In addition to Jarvis ( 1983 ) there have been books and papers emanating from a recent SRHE conference ( see Goodlad 1984 ; Squires 1989b ) . |
| 18 | All through the morning there had been detonations and gunfire . |
| 19 | Such travellers may have been missionaries or emissaries , but the term presumably also encompasses those involved in commerce irrespective of whether they originated from across the English Channel . |
| 20 | He had never found a suitable gift , and there had n't been an Easter that year , the only gift many families had received had been blood and fire . |
| 21 | He wondered whether she had always been quite so uncaring of her appearance or whether it had been grief and rage at Uncle Bill 's defection that had started this off . |
| 22 | There have been bangs and explosions , the appearances and disappearances of islands and volcanoes ever since . |
| 23 | There had been restaurants and clothes-shops — but no florists . |
| 24 | Then it had all been defeat and misery . |
| 25 | His entry in Who 's Who shows that he has won The Palladium ( sic ) Medal of The Electrochemical Society and has been professor and head of the chemistry department at Southampton University since 1983 . |
| 26 | Luis Carlos Croissier Batista , who had been Industry and Energy Minister in 1986-1988 , became head of the new Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores , the national stock market commission regulating the new stock markets . |
| 27 | Of these 57 authorities , 32 had been Partnership or Programme councils , and the remainder had a lower status either as Other Designated Districts or benefited from the traditional Urban Programme from which very many councils had gained some , often limited resources . |
| 28 | They stayed there for about twenty minutes , walked where once there had been fear and intimidation , tried to imagine it as it had been , wondered who 'd died there , whose dreams had been shattered . |
| 29 | It could have been fear or sympathy or irritation or a combination of all three . |
| 30 | If Japan represents one possible path towards postmodernity , it is clear that there have been winners and losers in this development . |