Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Examination Council came into being some erm nine months ago and has already been involved in quite a lot of activity , I mean particularly the erm problem of sixteen-plus examining , whether we should move from a system of erm O-levels and C S E , or to a combined system , Sixteen-plus Examination it would probably be called . |
| 2 | Although it has been argued that most of the ideas central to general systems theory are certainly valuable , they had been applied to it without formal knowledge of the theory ( Jennings , 1973 , p. 124 ) , nevertheless the theory has focused thinking and has probably been responsible for a more comprehensive view of many environmental situations . |
| 3 | Midland has already swapped a substantial part of its Chilean debt exposure for equity and has also been involved in similar , private sector , schemes in Argentina . |
| 4 | In the UK the industry has been losing sales estimated at one million cases a year and has also been concerned about the message being sent from this country to export markets , implying that high excise duty levels may be acceptable . |
| 5 | Lorraine did her doctorate work in the Department of Geography and has since been involved in the Department of Environmental Health and Housing on designing a hazard index for litter ( sponsored by the Tidy Britain Group ) . |
| 6 | From a turnover of less than £50,000 during its first year of business , the company expanded rapidly and has recently been instrumental in negotiating the £3 million Tetley Bitter sponsorship of the England team . |
| 7 | Miss Welty does not take up causes and has never been involved in any movement . |
| 8 | This is a scaled-down version of Blaggdon , and has always been one of my early-season pilgrimages . |
| 9 | According to some press comment he had provided the link between the Mafia and the DC leadership and had thus been important in keeping Sicilian voters solidly behind the DC . |
| 10 | He had been an unsuccessful amateur jockey some fifteen years ago and had then been assistant to a leading jump trainer in Lambourn . |
| 11 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 12 | She went to Canonmills School , then Broughton Higher grade , and had always been good at reading and spelling . |
| 13 | He had been brought up with a lot of fine furniture and had always been conscious of its value . |
| 14 | These movements have occurred chiefly in the United States and have generally been anti-suburban in tenor . |
| 15 | Colonel with a K the this band , they used to , that they had from the tenth replacement depot used to come down and play at the Town Hall , and they they like I said before they were fellas on the way to join Glen the absolute ultimate musicians of America and it was why I 'm still today erm I 've got a big collection of jazz records and have always been interested in the big band sound . |
| 16 | We 're both Aquarian dreamers and have always been able to be ‘ alone ’ together , or step easily into imagination games , and Max — like me — has a fairy godmother who always seems to save his neck at the last minute . |
| 17 | They do however share one thing in common , they are all quality products , and have always been high in the list of best selling computer games on all hardware formats . |
| 18 | ‘ I was born in Holland , and have always been terrified of chainsaws . |
| 19 | The Wonder Stuff come from Stourbridge , in the West Midlands , and have never been shy about saying so . |
| 20 | They know what it 's like to stand on both sides of the competitive fence and have now been involved with the sport for well over a decade , first as top international competitions and then as manager and coach of the national team . |
| 21 | Thereafter the play received a few critically acclaimed performances in Birmingham but has otherwise been unperformed in this country . |
| 22 | The gun , manufactured by Sturm-Ruger Police Firearm Services of Southport , Connecticut , is described by them as ideal for hunting small game — coyotes , marmots — but has always been popular with criminals and psychopaths . |
| 23 | The highest part of the Tibesti consists of an enormous volcanic mass , which seems to have reached the solfatara stage , but has certainly been active in the recent geological past ( Gautier , 1928 ) . |
| 24 | First , consider a firm which has a machine which originally cost £10,000 but has recently been surplus to requirements . |
| 25 | Yet Joseph knew that he was right to have his armaments in place : you could never trust the gypsies or the tinkers — against each other , let alone anyone else : quacks , drunks and ranters would drift from their positions in the line and cause trouble just by bumping into the orderly armada of hill folk who knew how to hold steady but had never been fond of strangers . |
| 26 | She had made gallant efforts to pull herself together but had still been confused about the precise sequence of events between arriving at the church and the moment when she had pushed open the door of the Little Vestry . |
| 27 | I 've had perms in the past but have never been happy with them — they are always too curly . |