Example sentences of "[verb] been [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the example given above , John has been take ill , the transition would be has been + -en . |
| 2 | I would state my own area ; we 've put residents ' parking into the south and the east and the west , but the north , as yet , has not come into it and erm traffic management is carefully monitored and erm developers that come have to provide certain amounts towards management within the area and there have been developments within North Oxford and there has been money available , and we 've not seen any of it yet , and we would , on certain occasions , like to know why . |
| 3 | Sweeping into the market with some force has been Abbey National , the building society that turned itself into a bank in 1989 . |
| 4 | The biggest buy has been Norweigan international Fjortoft . |
| 5 | Which would suggest that it might be rash to release Mr Sisulu , who has been secretary general of the ANC since 1949 , at this stage . |
| 6 | It has been Jessie this , Jessie that , and Jessie the other . |
| 7 | The only addition to the crowded airwaves in the past year to have significantly demonstrated all three has been Radio 4 News FM . |
| 8 | Hilary Weedon , who has been teacher 2nd and 3rd P.E . |
| 9 | For the last few years the sum has been £1 0 . |
| 10 | Delta has been number one in passenger satisfaction among major US airlines for the past 15 years . |
| 11 | James has been number one for boys since 1964 , now followed by Alexander , Thomas , William and Edward . |
| 12 | The cost of this replacement programme so far has been £7.3 million . |
| 13 | Mr Dignum , 52 , has been group financial director since 1988 and was appointed finance director of the stores in January . |
| 14 | Since leaving South Morecambe , Colin has been manager responsible for CCG projects all over the country , as far as Hull , Peterhead , Essex , Nottingham and Lincoln . |
| 15 | Since 1985-86 alone , total capital public expenditure on social housing provision has been £18.3 billion . |
| 16 | Total expenditure in this field has been ECU 0.72 million . |
| 17 | Well I mean surely it 's , that 's the point now is to try to make a fair erm law and one that is ideologically erm designed seeing we 've got to power , or we 've got certainty of obtaining power , therefore land ownership has got to be land ownership which has been capitalism Marxist |
| 18 | He wanted to live , he 'd put in long years , he 'd been champion three times , it no longer excited him to race , this was it , goodbye and thanks . |
| 19 | I 'd been number one golden boy until then . ’ |
| 20 | And these disciples and Jesus , some of them seasoned , experienced fishermen , they 'd been fishermen all their lives , their fathers had been fishermen before them and they were frightened ! |
| 21 | She stood up and walked from the room without so much as a backward glance , and Shae looked down at her hands , surprised to find they were trembling , though they 'd been rock steady just minutes before . |
| 22 | The cost of each accident was then assessed and a judgement made on whether it would have been cost effective to prevent it . |
| 23 | The correct reference should have been reference 3 . |
| 24 | no I do n't know , but I , I , I imagine the er first reprint would have been September nineteen eighty six |
| 25 | Should have been ladies first , of course . |
| 26 | In the year ended 30 June 1992 , the group pre-tax profit would have been £120,000 higher ( 1991 — £1.23m higher ) under the old basis . |
| 27 | Premiums would have been $10.8m lower |
| 28 | His rightful heir , according to the tradition of tanistry , should have been Kenneth III 's grandson , but Malcolm had already disposed of him and other possible candidates while laying plans for his own grandson Duncan to succeed . |
| 29 | Under Labour 's tax regime , he 'd have been £1.5 million worse off . |
| 30 | Bath are virtually unbeatable … that 's the first point to make and even for Gloucester on top form this would have been mission impossible … the cherry and whites self destructed though … they missed five kicks and presented the champions with at least two tries … in all Bath got six … |