Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have been [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least the Spanish authorities had been conducting a professional search . |
| 2 | French toddlers have been teaching a Middlesbrough sixth former who went to work in a nursery in France . |
| 3 | I think that all hon. Members have been sent a circular about the Bill by the Consumers Association . |
| 4 | A fourteen year old criminal who 's had holidays in Spain paid for by social services has been given a two-year supervision order . |
| 5 | A panel of European judges has been visiting a town carrying Britain 's hopes in Entente Florale . |
| 6 | ‘ Needless to say , ’ adds our man with the scales of justice , ‘ the remaining frogs have been found a new home by the Tees . ’ |
| 7 | BRITAIN 'S crowded classrooms have been branded a ‘ public disgrace ’ by the ex-head of the National Curriculum Council . |
| 8 | Pro and anti-hunt demonstrators have been lobbying a meeting of the full council , where Labour is trying to rush through a ban . |
| 9 | Some believed indeed that the original intention of Soviet Mediterranean deployments had been to induce a negotiated withdrawal of the United States ' Sixth Fleet . |
| 10 | Four giant cranes have been given a lift ten miles down the River Mersey to start a new life working in the Port of Liverpool . |
| 11 | Once the two basic shapes have been created a single point is selected on each object using the blend tool and the program then creates the required number of ‘ in-between ’ stages . |
| 12 | His previous sermons had been pitched a little too high for their comprehension . |
| 13 | As Maisie and Mr Malik 's relative were clearing away the destruction ( the Huysan twins had been having a mashed-potato fight with school spoons ) , he made his way up to the headmaster 's study . |
| 14 | Her loose silk smock had been raised , while the elastic waistband of her matching trousers had been lowered a few inches so that her pale abdomen , not yet beginning to swell with the new life inside her , was ready to be smeared lightly with the gel that would facilitate the task of finding the tiny heartbeat . |
| 15 | A government-backed scheme to recycle chlorofluorocarbons from old refrigerators and air-conditioning systems has been branded a failure after two years of operation . |
| 16 | Professor Roesdahl , of Aarhus University , Denmark , who is one of the chief organisers , explains that Scandinavian scholars had been planning a major show on the Vikings for some time , and the French became involved because they had also wanted to hold such an exhibition , partly to examine the Viking role in Normandy . |
| 17 | To test this hypothesis , six methanogenic subjects have been fed a low sulphate diet for 34 days supplemented with sodium sulphate from day 11 to 20 . |
| 18 | Up to then the UK and Irish entries had been fighting a tooth and nail contest . |
| 19 | Aid for environmental planning in developing countries has been designated a top priority . |
| 20 | Some thought that fundholding general practitioners had been given a perverse incentive not to spend money on their patients or even to be selective in the types of patient they enrolled on their list . |
| 21 | The forward ceptors had been showing a bright little disc that was the planet Fraxilly , steadily enlarging as we crept near to it on planetary drive . |
| 22 | The craftsmen of the local Guilds had been performing a play on the Feast of Corpus Christi for eighty years . |