Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [been] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This siter has been here a long time and is part of the area . |
| 2 | The upshot of the erm the year of course has been rather a healthy lot of financial ratios . |
| 3 | Erm , er I 'll I 'll close it at two , but perhaps I could ask the the applicants erm , I mean I appreciate that obviously erm it er it economy in in in obviously in what you 're doing , but I think it it it would be fairly obviously to , I mean it 's been stated that that that that residents nearby would prefer either two bungalows or a house and a bungalow , and I think er that certainly erm new developments adjacent to where you are proposing these are in fact all bungalows , er with the exception of the mill , which of course has been there a long time , er all those on that side of the road , both those two built and those two proposed are a bungalow or a semi bungalow , er and so erm you can see that obviously it is that the height of these buildings , it is erm causing the offence , largely , erm I I think , I mean obviously you will want to main you know , optimize your er development , but whether er a scheme with two bungalows that they would n't be four bedroomed bungalows , because there would n't be room for two of the four two four bedroomed bungalows , erm |
| 4 | A demand for dolphin meat for human consumption has been only a recent trend , but high transport costs from the remote Iki Island made the export of edible dolphin meat uneconomic . |
| 5 | The presentation had been quite an unnecessary proceeding , as she and Uncle Orrin Tunstall had agreed , seeing that she had met and known both the King and Queen since she was ten years old and had first visited England with her mama and papa . |
| 6 | The policy has been only an equivocal success . |
| 7 | For him this convenience has been largely a negative factor for he thought of America as offering no other comparable diversion ; there were ‘ no beer gardens — no public concerts ’ and the question he asked was ‘ Who wants to sit at home and play bridge every night ? ’ |
| 8 | But as I 've already mentioned distributed database theory has been around a long time . |
| 9 | His father 's been dead a long time and he has-had — two brothers . ’ |
| 10 | The reason for the neglect of climatic consideration has been partly the relative youthfulness of the science of urban climatology , and partly the relatively weak communication links that presently exist between climatology and planning . |
| 11 | She did n't want them to know that her life had been quite a privileged one . |
| 12 | At first , like her many other activities , the home maintenance course at the Adult Education Centre had been just a desperate device to take her away from the boredom of George . |
| 13 | For three centuries , however , an incident of landownership has been effectively the sole right to shoot deer on that land , either for sport or to prevent damage . |
| 14 | The same number had been there the previous night as well . |
| 15 | Furthermore , because technology has been primarily an add-on input to enrich the student 's experience , there arc few , if any , examples one can point to where it has improved system productivity . |
| 16 | We 're all well and your mother has been out a good deal . |
| 17 | Since the 1950s and the failure of the APL to gain a foothold in Belfast , the Nationalist Party had been mainly a rural phenomenon . |