Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [adv] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saturday has been deliberately left free so that the ladies can do as they please , either in and around Peebles , or perhaps venture to ‘ Auld Reekie ’ , our beautiful capital city of Edinburgh . |
| 2 | ‘ You mean he would n't have liked to be an invalid having been so healthy all his life ? ’ |
| 3 | Singh had been under intense political pressure to reduce the increase in fertilizer prices . |
| 4 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
| 5 | Sue 's been there all bloody day . |
| 6 | For instance , in British women who married before the age of 20 , the proportion of marriages that ended in divorce has been approximately double that of the marriages of women who married between 20 and 24 ( Office of Population Censuses and Surveys , 1978 ) . |
| 7 | The kind of supervision suggested by the college could be achieved by guardianship ; yet guardianship under the Act has been very little used . |
| 8 | ‘ Hyde has been here all this time why did n't he destroy this will ? ’ |
| 9 | I am sure our experience with our youngest child has been very much due to the fact that the whole family has been involved . |
| 10 | The US Defence Department had provided on May 22 the approximate estimate that Iraqi military casualties had been around 100,000 dead , but warned that this estimate could be 50 per cent out either way . |
| 11 | Nigel had been very healthy all his life and , apart from a slipped disc and the odd bout of ‘ flu , had never been incapacitated for more than a day or so . |
| 12 | However , Mrs Thatcher is by no means a typical prime minister ; her approach to the job has been quite unlike that of most of her modern predecessors who , with one or two exceptions , have adopted a less ambitious , more pragmatic consensual style . |
| 13 | The intervention period has been too short All children learn at different rates . |
| 14 | Eddie had been dead ten long years , a life so abruptly terminated that she had never come to terms with it . |
| 15 | Sometimes the advances have been less that brilliant , but the demand is there . |
| 16 | First , customs have been extremely successful this year with record seizures of Ecstasy . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman has been exceptionally churlish this afternoon . |
| 18 | ‘ My wife has been dead these two years . |
| 19 | There is , in fact , no hard evidence to show that rural depopulation has been socially selective either way . |
| 20 | But with the process of assembling Lebanon 's surviving deputies having been so difficult last time , a repeat performance seems to be impossible . |
| 21 | I was favoured with your letter and should have been glad to embrace this opportunity of sending a packet of seeds to Dr. Manetti of Florence , but the season has been so cold that but few of them have ripened as yet , but if the next month proves favourable , I hope to send him some in November , if you have any opportunity to convey them . |
| 22 | The wine , I mean ; the vineyard and vintage , um … whether it was south slope or the soil had been especially acidic that year . " |
| 23 | She felt that her success had been very much due to the ‘ enterprise society ’ . |
| 24 | but er , no my arms have been really painful this last week |
| 25 | The competition 's been pretty tough this year has it ? |
| 26 | The Passport Agency has been very successful this year in speeding up the processing of passport applications . |
| 27 | I think I should start by stressing the process through which we have gone in order to prepare this report has been somewhat different this year from that which we followed in the past and |
| 28 | It must be stressed that this is only a possibility ( and that the explanation has been very much simplified ) , but more and more researches are showing that it probably approximates to the truth . |
| 29 | She was also much smaller , the police ship having been over three hundred tons . |
| 30 | Sometimes they caused havoc in gardens where the gates had been incautiously left open . |