Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] have [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In Uganda I had always been keen on the latest styles , trying new clothes from week to week .
2 Talks between Iraq and Kuwait which had originally been due to take place in Jeddah on July 28-29 were delayed until July 31 .
3 In the United States there has already been some production of material specifically for interactive use , but for most people it is still a question of waiting and seeing what uses , methods and materials emerge .
4 With Chantal there had never been any need for pretence .
5 But if the French government had been inefficient in Paris it had certainly been busy in New Zealand .
6 I had lost the excitement of the first Ramble to the Trossachs which had all been new territory .
7 President Marjorie Clarke expressed pleasure at seeing Kay Hampton back after her recent illness and she reported on the good progress being made by Sue Rankin and Miss Elliott who had also been ill .
8 In Moabit there had already been some traffic management in the past , but this had relied largely on the use of one-way streets .
9 Pat Wells describes the attack : ‘ This was our first readiness at Malta and whilst sitting in the crew room were astonished to hear the air-raid sirens howling — in the U.K. we had always been airborne before the sirens sounded .
10 Relations with the USA which had generally been amicable under the Bhutto government , underwent a serious crisis in October 1990 following the suspension of aid worth around US$570 million on grounds that Pakistan was engaged in a nuclear weapons programme [ see p. 37764 ] .
11 In London she had often been late .
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