Example sentences of "[vb base] be [vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you 're dealing with people who may want to buy retirement homes , er how do you describe them ? , they 've been described by Mr as the punters you see , how 'd you , what do you call them ? |
| 2 | They 've been used in Australia since 1952 , working for an airline founded by the father of the new owner . |
| 3 | She wished he would stop talking for now he was saying , ‘ I 've been associated with Harrods of London for many years . |
| 4 | But I 've been promised to Craig for years , I ca n't break my word . ’ |
| 5 | Although automatic and semi-automatic high-bay warehousing systems are being built abroad at an ever increasing rate — some 2,000 have been constructed in Japan in the last fifteen years — the rate of development in the United Kingdom may only be described as slow . |
| 6 | One hundred bankers have been invited to Toronto on April 13 when O&Y is expected to seek formal suspension of debt repayments . |
| 7 | The desire to outshine others provoked extravagance , such as that shown by a Marquise who wrote to a friend : ‘ I have been invited to Compiègne for a week so I have sold a mill ! ’ |
| 8 | The bookshop profile , along with profiles for over 250 other businesses , have been prepared for Midland by Project North East , a local enterprise agency based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne . |
| 9 | The Smith family are everywhere , of course , so it is no surprise that over the years more Smiths have been dismissed by Smiths in Test cricket than any other self-destructing name . |
| 10 | The penultimate saga of the Entebbe Four ( ‘ Chimpanzees on the run ’ , October ) is that they have been repatriated from Hungary to Uganda , where they are waiting in Entebbe Zoo to move to a semi-wild setting in their native land , courtesy of the Jane Goodall Institute . |
| 11 | Like I said , I want to know how many murderers have been sent to Whitely in the last three years . |
| 12 | ‘ Six murderers have been sent to Whitely in the past three years , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Letters have been sent to Hugh about both of these campaigns . |
| 14 | ‘ A lot of anonymous letters have been sent to Chrissie over the years . |
| 15 | Studies of the relationship between communication and socio-economic change and political transition have been conducted by WACC for a long time . |
| 16 | Sudbury have been named by Whitbread as United Kingdom senior club of the month in Rugby World and Post . |
| 17 | The reason is that the Mentawi islands have been isolated from Sumatra for between 50,000 and one million years . |
| 18 | Nine Kurdish journalists have been killed since February of this year . |
| 19 | Relatively few members of the public have been killed in Britain by industrial accidents in recent years . |
| 20 | Survival International calculates that 100,000 people have been killed in Guatemala in the last 25 years and over a million forced to flee what is described as the brutality of the US-supported government there . |
| 21 | The insights into politics derived from a corporatist perspective have been applied to Britain by Keith Middlemas in an important book on Politics in Industrial Society which carefully explores the experience of the British system since 1911 . |
| 22 | We have been involved at Ithusheng as consultants over the last three years . |
| 23 | The Middlesbrough water polo pair of Paul Floyd and Lee Cooke have been selected for England in the home countries junior ( 20 and under ) international tournament at Glasgow on March 6–7 . |
| 24 | ANDREW GREEN , of Warrington A.C. , and Brenda Walker , a former Liverpool Women 's 10k winner from the Isle of Man , have been selected by Britain for the IAAF World Marathon Cup in San Sebastian , Spain , on October 31 . |
| 25 | TWO new species of fly have been discovered in Wales by scientists from the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 26 | The 3500 and its sister , the Healey Silverstone , have been developed at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire . |
| 27 | All of which have been supported by WACC for some years . |
| 28 | I entirely agree with the comments which have been made by Mr with regard to congestion resulting from erm commuting from the northeast at the present day . |
| 29 | An eagerly awaited new tax law that includes a provision for tax relief on personal and corporate donations to cultural , educational , scientific , sporting , religious and humanitarian institutions and events was introduced in the Czech and Slovak Republics on 1 January , the first time that such provisions have been made in Czechoslovakia since 1938 . |
| 30 | Exciting steps into research have been made in Bristol in the past decade . |