Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years , urban finance has been a system with which very few practitioners or academics have been totally at ease and procedures governing local-government funding have become more convoluted in the 1980s . |
| 2 | Ever since Kevin Costner delighted impressionable audiences with Dances With Wolves , feathers , beads and tepees have been unusually in demand in Tinseltown . |
| 3 | When the Hooligans first put in an appearance , the floggers and die-hards had been much in evidence , but they were eased aside with the growing recognition that Hooliganism was a pointer towards a general dislocation among the youth — and not just a ‘ hard core ’ — and that the problem was therefore immune to a narrow penal response . |
| 4 | But performances have been consistently below par for too long and drastic action needs to be taken . |
| 5 | Moreover , there is a coincidence between centres of dispersal and enclaves of diversity among Amazonian languages and the plant and animal ‘ refugia ’ , but humans have been there for perhaps only 6000 years . |