Example sentences of "been [adj] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Frank Cooper argues that , despite intelligence reports of something amiss in the South Atlantic , it would have been inappropriate to have stopped these shipments . |
| 2 | Poor old Steven : he was n't to know that , while he had been busy trying to make grown-up movies , the trendiest kids had gone off Michael Jackson and the Ninja Turtles and transferred their allegiance to metal-headed dipsticks such as Bill and Ted , or Wayne and Garth from Wayne 's World , the year 's hotsiest hit-flick ( which comes down your way in May ) . |
| 3 | The staff of the Unit continues largely unchanged , though we have been pleased to have had four postdoctorals associated with our activities over the past year or so . |
| 4 | In America where the loose , cotton , mid-thigh-length male undergarment has consistently maintained its market share , there has never been any need to call these things anything but shorts . |
| 5 | But now questions are being asked about the conditions in which the girls have been obliged to live to produce such results . |