Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb -s] [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not claim to be comprehensive in what follows , rather my aim has been to assess some of the main features of kin support in the past which have particular relevance to the central theme of this book — how important are duty , obligation and responsibility in motivating the support which people give to their relatives ? |
| 2 | My husband has been practising dying for years . |
| 3 | I am by training and profession an historian ; my role has been to collect these documents , to present and elucidate them , to attempt to show their meaning and limitations , according to traditional historical methods . |
| 4 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |
| 5 | One result of my illness has been to change all that : When you are faced with the possibility of an early death , it makes you realize that life is worth living and that there are lots of things you want to do . |
| 6 | listen to this , I 'm becoming increasingly aware that my landlady 's been making sexual passes at me , I did n't take them seriously until she climbed in the shower with me |
| 7 | My task has been to reconsider some of those complicated but always significant histories wherein differences conflict and converge as desire itself . |
| 8 | " She 's just told me her sister has been taken ill and she has to go and look after her . |
| 9 | The wife of one says her husband has been denied proper access to lawyers and medical care . |
| 10 | But not all of her fame has been achieved submerged . |
| 11 | They will have to prove to the Society that at least 15 minutes of their music has been played each year — fine enough for those who write lengthy pieces , but much more difficult for those who are at heart and in practice miniaturists . |
| 12 | Essentially their contribution has been to provide co-operative networks for the exchange of teaching material , experience and ideas . |
| 13 | ‘ You can have too much of anything , ’ was Gay 's sage rejoinder , ‘ and I rather think her mother 's been overdoing this entertaining stunt . |
| 14 | The author knows ( even if Akhsharumov has to remind him ) that the natural man in his hero has been laid low by the combined psychic onset of crime and punishment . |
| 15 | His achievement has been to cross that hitherto unrepresented culture into the mainstream ; to disrupt the patina of early evening viewing simply by being himself . |
| 16 | A LONELY bachelor who died in his bath has been found four years later . |
| 17 | His secret has been to approach ordinary people about non-controversial issues . |
| 18 | The vicar who keeps more than fifty animals in his garden has been given two weeks to get rid of them . |
| 19 | He thinks , by the sheer fact of not playing on something , his contribution has been to leave all the space for everybody else . |
| 20 | And our consultant has been running varied recycling for the last four years , and they are currently recycling seventy percent of the waste in that town . |
| 21 | Our Nicola 's been moaning all week ! |
| 22 | Your daughter has been made pregnant by my brother . ’ |
| 23 | And under that stone your secret has been breeding another — a secret kept by your lover . |
| 24 | Sounds as though your pony has been spared these problems , but I do doubt you will see the black colour again . |
| 25 | Our client has been making regular visits to the property , usually at weekends , during which he maintains it as well as performing a security function . |