Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [been] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | • It was the year , too , when I decided my fish had been eating better than I had . |
| 2 | Her hair had been cut shorter than usual round her neck , accentuating the elegant curve of the nape and softening the slight masculinity of her features . |
| 3 | Clare noticed that her hair had been cropped shorter than before , so that it was almost like fur on her head . |
| 4 | However , she points out proudly that her films have been faring better than her rival 's at the box office . |
| 5 | To lure passengers away from El Al , its rivals have been offering larger commissions to travel agents . |
| 6 | ‘ I read a very good piece by Candida Crewe , in which she said that she felt her life had been made richer by having had step-parents . |
| 7 | This year , despite the injuries which have befallen them , and the unfortunate suspension of the experienced Kieran McKeever , Derry believe that their preparations have been going better than last year . |
| 8 | It was the decisive end of an imagination whose bounds had been set wider and wider , the doom of the crystal palaces of the rails , the ferrovitreous stables of the champing iron horses . |
| 9 | BLIND people whose lives have been made easier by the work of a Darlington woman gathered this weekend to say thank you . |
| 10 | Many who invested in UK-based Barlow Clowes Gilt Managers and its Gibraltar sister operation , Barlow Clowes International , were elderly people whose plight has been made worse by the loss of their savings . |
| 11 | He could n't understand why his father had been elected Burgermeister or the head of the theatre committee . |