Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [been] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car had previously been in a collision caused by the negligence of the first defendant . |
| 2 | Topaz had never been with a man before , but some instinct told her how to arouse Andrew . |
| 3 | Well the window cleaner 's not been for a while has he ? |
| 4 | I have argued that in spite of the formalism of diagrams , binary opposites , levels and meta-levels , structuralism has really been about a mode of interpretation of aspects of culture . |
| 5 | The convoy has already been through a Soviet Checkpoint at Marienborn on the West/East German border , Where the numbers of men and vehicles have been thoroughly checked . |
| 6 | A hundred years before Elizabeth came to the throne no member of the human race had ever been in a position to make a map of the whole world ; civilizations had risen and flourished in different regions of the world but they had little or no idea of their geographical relationship to one another . |
| 7 | New Zealand 's economy has probably been through a more dramatic recent revolution than that of any other Western country . |
| 8 | But I do not think any traveller has ever been in a worse situation than I was then . |
| 9 | In one recent group one woman had not been in a lift for twenty years . |
| 10 | Amstral has recently been through a combination of management buyouts and takeovers , including the acquisition of Crab Advanced Technologies ' sales and marketing division , and now goes by the name of ABC Workstation Solutions Ltd . |
| 11 | Londoner Ken Butler moved to the Fens 12 years ago , where space has never been at a premium , to carry on his profession of carpenter specialising in reproduction furniture . |
| 12 | Life has always been on a razor-edge of survival and it is surely important to understand those moments in the past when the organic world seemed closer than usual to obliteration . |
| 13 | The wine we drank had a trace of resin , as if the vineyard had merely been beside a pine-forest , and was nothing like the harsh turpentine-tasting rotgut I sometimes drank in the village . |
| 14 | Since the establishment of the modern presidency in the 1930s and the massive expansion of governmental activity , congress has always been at a disadvantage in its constant battles with the executive arising from the latter 's superior access to information and expertise . |
| 15 | She wondered if this coat had ever been on a train before , when it had belonged to the other child . |
| 16 | The increase has not been at a constant rate . |
| 17 | Mr Gavron believes that the company has never been in a stronger position . |
| 18 | Diana arrived at Sandringham that weekend having just been through a most traumatic period . |
| 19 | The investment of research and management resources to build up to a Chinese market has usually been at a higher cost than would be tolerated elsewhere . |