Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 2 | For nine years , I 've been living in unwedded bliss with my partner Christian . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've been snorin' in that chair all efternoon , John Williamson , ’ his wife said , lifting the old coat off his knees . |
| 4 | are napkins that we 've been buying in antique fairs . |
| 5 | Allow your tiles to acclimatise at room temperature for at least 24 hours before laying — especially if they 've been stored in cold conditions |
| 6 | His face had an unpleasant shine to it , the kind of shine you get on the walls of places where they 've been cooking in cheap fat since for ever . |
| 7 | We 've been selling in this area fairly consistently across estate agents |
| 8 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 9 | Most shops are prepared for your to do this with expensive boots , but do n't expect them to be exchanged if they 've been marked in any way or worn outside ! |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been criticised in various quarters , but we used it as motivation before we met and beat Tipperary last month . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've been criticised in various quarters , but we used it as motivation before we met and beat Tipperary last month . |
| 12 | The majority of doctors are simply not aware of the dangers attached to Depo-Provera and other injectable contraceptives , nor that they have been prohibited in other countries . |
| 13 | All that is true , but I do not say that young people who have been deprived in that way should go out and steal cars . |
| 14 | Although parts of this tradition have been examined in great detail , some of the most important aspects of it for this theme have received little attention . |
| 15 | Special circumstances are required to justify the er proposing the new settlement through the local plan structure planning process , and I believe that is exactly what has occurred over the last five years , and if I could just quickly run through paragraph thirty three of P P G three , and the your invitation for us to comment on the criteria set out there , first of all the first element , the ex the alternative must be erm seen to be a less satisfactory method of providing land for the new housing that is needed , that is the essence of what has occurred in the process which the County Council has undertaken over the last couple of years , all of the policy options available have been examined in great detail , have been subject to public consultation , public participation , d I believe clear view was that there were erm constraints operating on York which meant that not all of that additional development accommodated in the adjacent to the existing er York city villages surrounding York . |
| 16 | The formation of a strategy for confronting the current crisis of accumulation in the world capitalist system will depend on the factors that have been examined in this chapter : the balance of social forces , class strategies and forms of political representation ; the broad historical character of the state ; and its internal composition , organizational interests , and dynamic . |
| 17 | The accident records at these schools have been examined in considerable detail by the Departments of Highways and Education and the Police and four areas have been highlighted for further action and detailed investigation . |
| 18 | M. Dupont went on : ‘ Many things of interest have been said in this house over the past days . |
| 19 | Over centuries gypsies have been persecuted in varying degrees ; but now they are as much the victims of general trends and events taking place without regard to or for them . |
| 20 | Take advantage of bath-time when hands have been soaking in warm water to gently push back cuticles with an orange stick . |
| 21 | Warsaw Pact tanks have been fitted in recent years with additional armour , designed to explode when hit by an anti-tank missile , so neutralising its effect . |
| 22 | Similar deposits have been recognised in ancient sediments . |
| 23 | In such an economy , and also in the earlier phases of primitive agricultural communities , the coast and the larger river valleys provided very rich sources of food for small bands of people ; many Mesolithic sites have been recognised in such areas . |
| 24 | The reasons have been explained in several letters to your MP or Regional Councillor on 31 March 1992 , 14 April , 6 May , 4 June and 27 August , all of which I understand have been passed to you , and directly over the phone by Mr Carter on 6 August 1992 . |
| 25 | Eleven background papers and four major issues papers have been prepared in this way . |
| 26 | Although the survey was carried out in 1987 , and events in education have moved on with amazing rapidity since then , many of the conclusions that can be drawn from the interviews seem to have retained their relevance , particularly in the context of the issue I have been exploring in this chapter . |
| 27 | Some memoirs , too , take us much further than official material ; those of de Gaulle are a case in point , while British official documents which in their original form remained hidden from the historian by the thirty-year rule were printed in the books of Winston Churchill and Eden , or have been unearthed in private collections by scholars able to disregard the consequences of publication . |
| 28 | Our coping strategies have been listed in reverse order . |
| 29 | But it was the call for investment that aroused the most plain fears , and these have been compounded in recent days by a clutch of investments in Eastern Europe by big western manufacturers . |
| 30 | They are locally based , and have been formulated in direct opposition to those policies preferred by the centre . |