Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
| 2 | For more than twenty years I 've been part of the furniture , a constant teatime companion . |
| 3 | For the past two years she has been Chairman of the ‘ Kent Teachers ’ and has also been a member of the Kent display Team since 1976 . |
| 4 | For the last two weeks we 've been sort of fine tuning and now everything 's going to plan . |
| 5 | For seventy years we have been slaves to the tyrannical French . |
| 6 | Over the past six or seven years we have been victims of the city council 's urban regeneration strategy . |
| 7 | In his early days he had been clerk of the race-course , but is more well known as the fiery Salvationist he became after his conversion . |
| 8 | This paper has largely been limited to the processes within education — the ways they have been part of a wider process of economic and political domination have been little more than hinted at . |
| 9 | People were asked what crimes they had been victims of ( victim study ) and about their own law-breaking ( self-report study ) , and they were also asked about their attitudes towards the police and policing . |