Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henley has always been popular with visitors and societies , and in 1935 the British Racing Drivers ' Club came , arranged by Henley Member J.A . |
| 2 | In achieving this remarkable success , Roddick has always been scornful of traditional business credos . |
| 3 | ‘ But Craig , you know Spencer has never been strong like you , he could not survive in prison , his health … ’ |
| 4 | So Scott has never been far from the sharp end — where all the action is , as they say — and he fired his latest salvo when Rhythm Section landed the Festival Bumper at Cheltenham for his brother-in-law , Belfast solicitor Robert Sinclair . |
| 5 | ‘ Gazza has always been brilliant on the football field and it will be great to see him back after the long haul he 's had . ’ |
| 6 | Andy has also been successful with other players : he was with the American Tom Purtzer when he won the 1984 Phoenix Open , with Craig Stadler from the US when the ‘ Walrus ’ won the 1985 Swiss Open , and there were two World Cup triumphs for Andy and his man — an individual title with Englishman Howard Clark in the 1985 Cup , and a team title with David Llewellyn of Wales in 1987 . |
| 7 | Njiru had apparently been relieved of the chairmanship of a local branch of the ruling Kenya National African Union ( KANU ) in May 1992 . |
| 8 | Rachel Maybank had previously been involved in some discussions , Peter West agreed to talk to her and shop stewards . |
| 9 | COSLA has already been involved in a re-assessment of the figures which it strongly disputed . |
| 10 | Jim Payne has also been surprised by the standard of putting . |
| 11 | Fatal Attraction killer Susan Chistie has seldom been far from the headlines since being jailed for the cut-throat killing of her lover 's wife . |
| 12 | In the past , the NHS has perhaps been guilty of seeing structures and organisational change as the outcome measures of new initiatives . |
| 13 | Gairloch has long been renowned as a holiday resort of rare distinction , Victorian visitors regularly patronising the large hotel overlooking the bay and enjoying the quiet seclusion of this favoured backwater . |
| 14 | A particular case of course is in relation to Bosnia Hercegovina , erm Russia has traditionally been close to the Serbs erm and therefore is worried , not only about the situation within erm the old Yugoslavia itself , Bosnia Hercegovina , but also about the reaction erm within Russia if it is seen to take too anti a Serb line erm in the , in the crisis that 's being faced there . |
| 15 | Ambonnay has long been famous for its production of still red wines . |
| 16 | Horne had liked him but Ralph Whitton had always been jealous of Bartholomew for being a better soldier than he . |
| 17 | Despite his utterances during the brief encounter with Toby , Dominic had actually been surprised to be offered the job . |
| 18 | But Jane had always been close to her mother and , almost inevitably , there came an evening when Mrs Connachan inadvertently prised open the floodgates . |
| 19 | If Philip Leapor had earlier been hostile to his daughter 's poetry fearing it was unprofitable but then left her at liberty , it was probably because she had convinced him that she could earn money with her pen . |
| 20 | If those brothers in Comus had really been anxious about their sisters would they have stood around spouting poetry ? |
| 21 | The DKP had long been dependent on the East German Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED — ultimately renamed the Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS ) in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) and had suffered as a result of the changes in East Germany ; the ending of financial support from the SED had led to a scaling down of operations . |
| 22 | He and Franca had always been fond of each other . |
| 23 | The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise . |
| 24 | Central America and Israel/Palestine have recently been prominent in this work . |
| 25 | The function of the Petit Meslier has thus been similar to that of the Petit Verdot in Bordeaux . |
| 26 | Wall Street has long been bored with the US budget deficit . |
| 27 | Alain has always been intrigued by your colouring . ’ |
| 28 | The CEGB has probably been unwise in its emphasis on the economic benefits to be had from building a PWR at Sizewell . |
| 29 | Det Insp Gordon Williams has recently been involved with raising money to set up a suite in Darlington where child abuse and rape victims can be interviewed in pleasant surroundings . |
| 30 | ( The Shah had indeed been strident in his denunciations of Western decadence and corruption . ) |