Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great area of progress since the 1970s has been to create a healthy and enterprising economy . |
| 2 | It 's been five years since Zoë Fairbairns last published a novel , during that time she has been writing a huge and compelling family saga , Daddy 's Girls . |
| 3 | But the White Paper has been give a less than enthusiastic welcome in some quarters , Liberal Democrat spokesman Simon Hughes says he 's worried that the Environment Secretary 's announcements may be full of good intentions which wo n't be carried out . |
| 4 | Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think . |
| 5 | Aleksei Ermolov , the Russian commander in the Caucasus whom Paskevich replaced in 1827 , had been pursuing a conciliatory or " regionalist " policy for more than a decade . |
| 6 | Throughout his days at Chelsea , Gallacher had been contesting a long and painful divorce case with his first wife . |
| 7 | I 've been given a hundred and fifty acres , Seb . |
| 8 | We know we have been reading a novel but nevertheless we can believe that what the author has told us is true . |
| 9 | Two brothers who worked with asbestos have been awarded a hundred and forty thousand pounds compensation for lung damage . |
| 10 | We have been allocated a flat and I hope we can live a normal life in spite of the past . |
| 11 | Since the sixties , rock and pop have been considered a stamping and breeding ground for burgeoning leftist/liberal sensibilities , a place where dissent is felt and upsurges occur . |
| 12 | Many working-class British Afro Caribbean girls , it appears , have been adopting a clever and effective strategy which combines resistance and accommodation , instrumentalism and commitment . |
| 13 | then they stop her this tax what she owes them all , well she 's been getting a hundred and forty seven |