Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [verb] the new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Secretary of State agree that until now , there has been little to encourage the new democracies of central and eastern Europe to change their minds about the EC being a rich man 's club ? |
| 2 | David had been promising to paint the new metal design for two weeks now , ever since they had had it fitted . |
| 3 | The example is absurd because , apart from anything else , workers would not have been available to operate the new machines . |
| 4 | He and Nedham must have been amazed to see the new water wheels towering above them powering the pumping and winding machines , for the miners were now working well below the Grand Level , and a shaft had been put down . |
| 5 | From the point of view of cost-effectiveness and efficiency , it would have been surprising had the new Victoria Authority not taken an initiative . |