Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 2 | When FDA clearance comes through the final product in a portfolio of basic food ingredients will be in place — promising the transformation of what has long been regarded as one of Britain 's most boring businesses into a world beater . |
| 3 | Shevardnadze ( appointed in 1985 — see p. 33738 ) had been regarded as one of Gorbachev 's closest allies and personal friends in the leadership . |
| 4 | The plot boundaries defining the crofts on which these houses stood also changed , although the early impression of great change and lack of order has now been revised to one of combination and division of consistent units . |
| 5 | This has now been modified to that of SARFU representative , whatever that means . |
| 6 | By contrast , alcohol has been enjoyed for thousands of years and in moderate quantities is harmless . |
| 7 | David , 38 , and willowy blonde Serena have been picked from hundreds of hopefuls to star in Diana : Her True Story . |
| 8 | It did , however , come to light some seven years later that a Dr Bayley , a professor at Oxford , had been approached by one of Dudley 's servants shortly before Amy 's death . |
| 9 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 10 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 11 | It 's been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 12 | A part of this is personal : the shadow of Labour 's punitive taxation plans has been lifted from thousands of households . |
| 13 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 14 | She said she had been threatened with hundreds of pickets if she did not reinstate Miss Owen . |
| 15 | The rheidity of ice is a few weeks , that of salt about a year , but igneous rocks will only exhibit rheid flow after a stress has been applied for hundreds of years , in the case of deeply buried rocks subject to elevated temperatures , or tens of thousands of years for rocks at the surface . |
| 16 | A similar criticism could have been made against many of Jesus 's parables and sermons and some of his listeners were certainly not of the highest social class . |
| 17 | ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’ |
| 18 | The case in question had been argued as one of relevance of evidence . |
| 19 | Gateways were opening up here in Salt Lake , and things would be coming through the like of which had not been seen for thousands of years . |
| 20 | Her face has been seen on millions of TV screens in the chocolate advert , where she lies in a bath calmly eating a Flake . |
| 21 | He had been selected from hundreds of applicants with stars in their eyes by producer Harry Adair , and was due to appear at the Broadcasting House auditions on Saturday . |
| 22 | ‘ Primary ’ rainforest is an area that has n't been disturbed for hundreds of years and has reached a state of mature complexity ; it is also known as virgin forest . |
| 23 | Indeed , Eisenman goes so far as to suggest that the families of Jesus and John the Baptist may even have been related to that of Judas of Galilee , leader of the Zealots at the time of Jesus 's birth . |
| 24 | There had been profiles of him that suggested that he was a jogger who had been bitten by one of Alex ‘ Down Sir ’ Snell 's pit-bulls . |
| 25 | Indeed , the look might have been interpreted as one of ferocity if there is such a thing as a ferocious duck . |
| 26 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 27 | But we have evidence that these gravimetric machines have been sabotaged in some of Britain 's pits , so they give false low readings . |
| 28 | Smoking is a very ancient art that has been used for hundreds of years to preserve fish and meat , preferred to salting because it does not destroy the natural flavour of the food to the same extent . |
| 29 | Additives have been used for hundreds of years , though they were not always known as ‘ additives ’ . |
| 30 | They have been used for thousands of years , one of the earliest references to salt being in the Old Testament when Lot 's wife was turned to salt in the desert . |