Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I think the scheme has been delayed for quite a long , well , I mean obviously it 's important to get this scheme off the ground and when people , and I 've had lots of phone calls and discussions about this , and when people have spoken to me I said , it 's important to bear in mind two things . |
| 2 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 3 | England manager Keith Fletcher yesterday confirmed that the 23-year-old had been omitted from both the senior trip and the A team tour to Australia for disciplinary reasons . |
| 4 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 5 | This reflects both a desire to uphold tradition and the fact that natural dyes produce a subtle beauty of tone that has never been equalled by even the finest synthetic dyes . |
| 6 | LASMO 's production , shown on page 22 , has similarly been presented on both the working interest and entitlement basis . |
| 7 | This new use meant a severe criticism of the earlier knowledge , since Marx believed that the studies he was using had originally been made for exactly the opposite purpose to his ; they had been made in order to justify the oppression which Marx say as the core of the capitalist system . |
| 8 | ‘ Méthode champenoise ’ wines are sparkling wines that have been made in exactly the same way as Champagne , but do not quality for the name because they 're not made in the Champagne region . |
| 9 | The search for signs of God in nature had often been based on the assumption that the two books had been written in essentially the same language . |
| 10 | They have n't been moved for quite a long time , and it 's funny how buildings which claim to have extraordinary flexibility sometimes turn out to be really quite rigid . |
| 11 | The new constitution ( approved by 73 votes to one with three abstentions ) had already been accepted by both the Serbian and Montenegrin republican assemblies on April 23 . |
| 12 | Mancini himself is clear that there was long-standing rivalry between the duke and the queen 's family , and this has been accepted by almost every subsequent writer . |
| 13 | Mancini himself is clear that there was long-standing rivalry between the duke and the queen 's family , and this has been accepted by almost every subsequent writer . |
| 14 | Apparently both the tomatoes in the peat and those in the coir had been grown under exactly the same conditions . |
| 15 | At the turn of the century a village wedding in Britain might have been celebrated in much the same way . |
| 16 | Beatrice Webb recorded that she had been told by both a working class male school attendance officer and by the female manager of a block of ‘ model dwellings ’ that working class women were not able to talk to their husbands , having little in their heads but household details . |
| 17 | But would the story have been told in quite the same way if I had been black , or a woman , or nearer their own age and social background ? |
| 18 | His people , the Navaho , had been waiting for nearly a hundred and fifty years . |
| 19 | Most of these accidents could have been avoided by just a few minutes extra care . |
| 20 | The most dramatic of these increases in percentage terms are , not surprisingly , to be found where the earlier payment was small , as at Lavenham , Totnes and Tiverton , but even major centres such as Norwich and Coventry , which had been assessed at quite a high level in 1334 , showed a percentage increase above the national average . |
| 21 | It came to light that er a great many of the members , a great many of the people who talked about their early experiences reported some sort of abusive experience , either y'know er quite a short one that went on over many many years you know that er if it was some relative or friend of the family they were likely to have been abused for quite a long time in some cases . |
| 22 | That is a serious charge against Christianity ; and one which has not been raised in quite the same way by other moral issues ( such as slavery ) which have in the past confronted Christians . |
| 23 | All she could recollect was that she 'd been amazed to find that they 'd been born on practically the same day in August : she on the sixth , and he on the eighth . |
| 24 | All reports speak of the satisfaction of the British troops at finding such an unusual attitude , for most of them have been stung in almost every other theatre of war . |
| 25 | Hayes Machine Knitting Club has been running for quite a few years now and welcomes new members . |
| 26 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 27 | Now I can say I 've been mixing with both the noble and the notorious . |
| 28 | This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature . |
| 29 | In its efforts to raise revenue to pay off the debt , Maxxam has been logging at twice the usual rate . |
| 30 | His eyes were wired open so that he must stare unblinkingly at a giant Sagramoso head , and his own body had been reduced to roughly the same contours . |