Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Telecom has been installing extra lines ‘ in terraced houses all over the capital ’ so that some stockbrokers , bankers and insurance agents can work from home . |
| 2 | Old Eddy had been wiped clean . |
| 3 | This time poor old Simpson had been caught off-balance by events and had sounded distinctly agitated on the telephone . |
| 4 | It had happened before that England had been sluiced clean of every significant esoteric and thaumaturgist . |
| 5 | In December 1991 Keating had been found guilty in a Californian state court on 17 counts of fraud [ see p. 38669 ] . |
| 6 | On top of that Hamilton has been overseeing three and a half hours of live television in a time-slot littered with failed ventures . |
| 7 | Responsibility was claimed by the Islamic Jihad Movement — Bayt al-Maqdis ( Jerusalem ) , which had also claimed responsibility for an attack on an Israeli tour bus in Egypt in February 1990 [ see pp. 37265-66 ] , and which in late October had been declared illegal in Israel and the occupied territories . |
| 8 | Hundreds of refugees in Srebrenica in eastern eastern Bosnia have been living rough on the streets and eating bread made from corn husks . |
| 9 | This time poor Allingham 's been found dead in his chamber , with not a mark on his body . |
| 10 | Kicking her shoes off in her hotel bedroom , hanging up her Chanel suit , removing her earrings , she could n't help feeling glad — sorry though she undoubtedly was , of course — that poor Felicity had been laid low with the chicken-pox . |
| 11 | ‘ The Dutch Texel has been bred pure for so long that its characteristics of extra hindquarter muscling , minimum bone and minimum fat are stamped firmly on to its crossbred progeny , ’ says Mr Slade . |
| 12 | For two years now , the first Astra has been broadcasting 16 channels of TV programmes , including Rupert Murdoch 's Sky Channels , right across Europe . |
| 13 | The normally outgoing Garel-Jones has been looking tired lately , say his friends , who believe he genuinely wants to bow out of the spotlight and spend more time with his family . |
| 14 | The Russian Sputnik had been launched two years before , and produced in the United States a feverish alarm lest their Communist competitors should outstrip them in a world increasingly penetrated by science and technology . |
| 15 | By the end of 1989 Nicaragua had been declared ineligible for World Bank lending because of arrears of US$150 million accumulated on loans of $160 million from that body . |
| 16 | Neither the 2,000 Bari or the 6,000 Yukpa have been granted full land rights . |
| 17 | By the end of 1989 Honduras had been declared ineligible for World Bank lending because of having accumulated arrears of US$80,000,000 on loans of $400 million from this body . |
| 18 | In recent years , telephone companies in Western Europe have been investing fabulous sums in replacing their old , analogue networks with digital ones . |
| 19 | Since 1947 Spoonbills have been recorded each year , except in 1959 , 1960 , 1962 , 1963 , 1969 , 1973 , and 1976 , and there were records involving 82 birds . |