Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] have been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frank Adler had been in 2nd place at the end of the first lap , eventually dropping back to 9th , the best German result in the Quincey Cup series . |
| 2 | Dr Curtis had been in four times . |
| 3 | Dr Carol Starkie has been on sick leave from Selly Oak hospital since May 25 , South Birmingham Health Authority said . |
| 4 | P. G. Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster had been like that , in the Jeeves stories ; so was Tony Last in Evelyn Waugh 's A Handful of Dust ( 1934 ) , a model country gentleman who loses child , wife , estate and ultimately England itself , marooned as surely as Crusoe in an inland jungle where he is forced to read Dickens 's novels to an illiterate half-caste . |
| 5 | And he was also sometimes a little overwhelming ( Uncle Dimitri had been like that too ) . |
| 6 | Mr Burrows has been with Allied Dunbar for 16 years . |
| 7 | Twelve minutes from time Weir had the misfortune to turn a John Eggleston short corner drive into his own net after Raphoe keeper Davy Buchanan had been at full stretch . |
| 8 | According to Mills , the United States had been through five epochs . |
| 9 | Gen. Marin Neagoe , a former divisional chief of the Securitate security forces , was imprisoned for seven years on May 29 for his role in suppressing the riots ; on May 10 the former Securitate chief Julian Vlad had been among those sentenced to prison terms of up to five years [ see p. 38207 ] . |
| 10 | The United Kingdom has been through 13 years in which unemployment has more than doubled , irreplaceable assets have been wasted , markets at home and abroad have been lost , manufacturing investment has fallen , poverty has increased , the crime rate has rocketed , and talents have been neglected . |
| 11 | " Yes , " said Clara , beginning to understand the nature of her mother 's satisfaction ; the lack of telephone of Mrs Hanney had been for some years a subject for discourse in a vein of amazed contempt . |
| 12 | The work of Norman Shneidman has been of some value in highlighting the way in which sport in Soviet society is ‘ directed towards the all-round development of the human individual ’ ( 1979 , p.7 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Billy Bingham has been in this position so many times before and come up smiling . |
| 14 | DISCOUNTING the scowl that greeted the outcome of his declaration at Ilford , Mike Gatting has been in better humour lately than at any time in my experience . |
| 15 | President Gorbachev , with whom Chancellor Helmut Kohl had been in frequent contact , clearly gave his approval . |
| 16 | Sheffield have lacked consistency away from home , though former British champion Neil Evitts and Peter Carr have been in great form . |
| 17 | Beryl Davies has been to several meetings of the Shropshire A. S. M. group . |
| 18 | Perhaps Bad Schwarzendorn had been in Allied hands by then . |
| 19 | Young openers Matthew Hayden and Michael Slater have been in sparkling form but the tourists are likely to start with their tried and trusted one-day partnership of Mark Taylor and Mark Waugh . |