Example sentences of "[verb] been [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ We have been monitoring the downward trend over the last 10 years , and our impression is that the decline is beginning to bottom out : there may have been 5m fewer loans last year , but the drop was 15m in 1991–92 . |
| 32 | If they had maintained the commitment of the last Labour Government — 5.5% of GNP — British education would have been £3.6 billion better off this year . |
| 33 | According to the diary , it must have been Friday 17 July . |
| 34 | That would have been number three . ’ |
| 35 | So that would have been point two five which should have been fifteen minutes . |
| 36 | I mean it was a very big operation , there could have been people alive in that plane , but er , as it happened , I , I think tragically they were both dead , but I mean , but people did n't know that . |
| 37 | On the basis of Professor Jeffery 's figures , the total bill for building all seven AGRs will have been £15 billion , well in excess of their expectation , and prompting their description as ‘ the largest loss making civil project ever undertaken in the UK ’ . |
| 38 | An unfortunate misprint in Hansard says that the value of the ships on order is £4.6 million whereas the correct answer should have been £4.6 billion . |
| 39 | MITI estimates , using data from the Bank of Japan , that if Japan 's imports of services had been included in its trade statistics , then the trade surplus would have been $14 billion , $18 billion lower than reported . |
| 40 | Twentieth Century Fox executive Tom Sherak estimated the return would have been £25 million-plus if all tickets had been full price . |
| 41 | Oh admittedly you would have been pig sick when a king would have , but even if the king had turned up you 'd have still got the , got a run and fifteen . |
| 42 | In 1987 he joined Guinness as director of financial control for Guinness PLC , after having been group financial controller for Midland Bank . |
| 43 | Montgomerie badly wants to finish his season with a win , having been runner-up four times , including the Dunhill Cup team tournament . |
| 44 | Of course I did n't know at the time that this was to have been O's last night in The Bar ; and I knew that it was n't Boy 's first visit to The Bar , I mean he did not see O the very day he walked in , their eyes did not meet across the bar on that very first night . |
| 45 | New York collector Leonard Lauder paid what is said to have been $25 million for some of the finest remaining works , including Braque 's ‘ Still life with mandoline and metronome ’ ( 1909–10 ) and Gris 's ‘ Portrait of the artist 's mother ’ ( 1912 ) . |
| 46 | A heads-together with the auctioneers failed to bring bidder and reserve ( thought to have been $1.3 million ) nearer . |
| 47 | It is believed to have been No. 11 E , then renumbered 355 , with the L.C.C . |
| 48 | It is reported to have been £1 million . |
| 49 | We talked for a while , catching up on our movements since we 'd last been neighbours six months earlier , in November . |
| 50 | If the price had been £50 lower it would have earned a fourth star . |
| 51 | Eleanor 's father , Duke William X , had married one of their daughters ; another member of the family had been William IX 's most famous mistress . |
| 52 | Japan 's trade surplus with the USA in 1989 had been $49,000 million ( exports of less than $100,000 million against imports just exceeding $50,000 million ) . |
| 53 | The Government did however put in a £200 million investment programme over a four-year period ( the previous annual average , apart from one missile development programme , had been £5 million ) . |
| 54 | The original release date had been January this year but it took longer than expected to complete the re-write and ensure there were no bugs . |
| 55 | Rashid Akhtarini became Deputy Prime Minister for Service Affairs in place of Mahmud Qaddur , who had been Deputy Prime minister for Public Affairs . |
| 56 | In spite of this , Attlee , who had played a part during the war which was very largely behind the scenes — he had been Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of innumerable Cabinet committees — did ‘ emerge ’ during the campaign as a figure of importance , and this was largely an accidental result of Churchill 's tactics in conducting his own campaign . |
| 57 | Gross lending for education had totalled $2,200 million , while funds for population , health and nutritional projects had been $1,570 million . |
| 58 | The peak had been May 1991 , with 728 . |
| 59 | And to prove his point he cited beside the names of Matisse and two or three other painters who had been Fauves those of Robert Delaunay , Henri Le Fauconnier , Jean Metzinger , André Lhote and Marie Laurencin , all of whom were at some time or another involved in the Cubist movement . |
| 60 | On Aug. 27 Lord Owen ( who as David Owen had been UK Foreign Secretary in the Labour government in 1977-79 and subsequently a founder and then leader of the Social Democratic Party ) was named as Carrington 's successor . |