Example sentences of "[pron] [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the finish is at Drumlanrig castle … they 've been running … slipping … sliding over the mounatins for seven hours … they 've climbed into the clouds … they 've crossed the streams … they 've run through the glens for mile after mile … the Oxfordshire team of Bunn and Thetford were up to second place but have finished fourth … its been a long hard day … |
| 2 | For the little ones its been a great adventure . |
| 3 | and there 's a lot of er of what people even leave their , their fortunes to look after some animal and they do n't leave it to people like er the lady sitting here who are , folk , folk are starving , but then its because people are needed and people are needed by their children , but there also needed by their men folk and I think its when they turn to being a mother to their men that , you know , even the , the love that they have , er whether its been a sexual love at one time , er friendly love becomes a very caring love and er I think that 's what we all remember erm those of us who have lost our husbands , that would like to have that , that part back again |
| 4 | Had she been a complete fool ? she wondered . |
| 5 | Had she been a foreign agent , she could not have done it better . |
| 6 | Have you been a good boy ? |
| 7 | Have you been a good boy ? |
| 8 | Have you been a good boy for your mum ? |
| 9 | Mm mm mm and have n't you been a good boy ? |
| 10 | You been a busy boy tonight . |
| 11 | Had there been a genuine sense of Arabism during the post-war period , Aziz went on , then the Gulf States would not only have cancelled Iraq 's debts , but would also have organized a comprehensive Iraqi reconstruction plan . |
| 12 | There has certainly been a shift in the sectoral pattern of employment , but has there been a parallel shift in labour from manufacturing to services ? |
| 13 | During the 1980s rural populations have grown more slowly then they did ten years earlier and some have declined ; in contrast not only has there been a substantial slowdown in the rate of London 's population decline ( Britton 1986 ) , but it has now gone into reverse in a small way . |
| 14 | It is just conceivable that something like this might have happened had there been a Communist government in France . |
| 15 | Not only has there been a serious questioning of the principle of the licence fee , but there has also been a reassessment of the idea of scarcity in the airwaves , the idea of equality of service to all , and of the need for regulations . |
| 16 | On talking to parents , we were told that had there been a suitable provision in their own country they would not be in Budapest . |
| 17 | But in no Western country so far , other than in the years following the end of a war , has there been a major permanent reduction in the role of the state . |
| 18 | Only now has there been a concerted effort to abandon the tyranny of the object and the sickness of naturalism to enter within consciousness . ’ |
| 19 | The " vast majority " of such attacks , however , had been committed by local groups based in Turkey , Greece , Lebanon and Peru , with no known links to Iraq ; in only one attack , in Manila on Jan. 19 [ see p. 37938 ] , had there been a direct connection with the Iraqi government . |
| 20 | Only in recent years has there been a sustained attempt by Marxist thinkers to re-examine in a thoroughgoing fashion the relation between the state , the economy and social classes , or to analyse that historical experience which reveals the emergence of a new type of authoritarian state from the revolutionary process itself or from the centralized control of a socialist economy . |
| 21 | One senior official of the European Commission said recently that , had there been a common Community defence policy , it would have committed forces to the Gulf . |
| 22 | Never before had there been so savage a fiscal squeeze ; not since the thirties had there been a comparable increase in unemployment , now approaching 3 million . |
| 23 | We can only speculate on what might have been had there been a full-hearted commitment to PR and a working agreement with the Lib Dems . |
| 24 | The house price collapse of the last few years has been a terrible dose of cold turkey for the home owning classes , but has it been a long enough agony to drive out the idea that there 's something inherently beneficial about rising house prices . |
| 25 | Had it been a real train the sound would have faded off towards the west — away from the hostel instead , and we could now hear the engine as well ; it came towards the hostel over the non-existent harbour branch and clattered to a stop , perhaps at one of the wharves . |
| 26 | had they been suing then that would of been met with a defence er counter claim settle and so on , erm and that would of been the answer that you ca n't enforce the claim under clause nine because it 's void , we did n't , we therefore ca n't , there 's no duty to keep the agent in funds , sue it to clause nine , it been a void clause |
| 27 | Has it been a pleasant experience ? |
| 28 | ‘ Had it been a total shock to you or had you suspected anything ? ’ |
| 29 | Now what essentially , what you 're doing , is that you 're writing an essay in very , very condensed form , so it 's just , I mean you still , still must have the same recipe in there when you write a short answer , right , but you just have to be very , very brief , so you know , para paragraph on definition , you know , paragraph of examples , right , erm , paragraph on some sort of explanation or erm , how it 's , how it 's measured erm , has it been a contentious issue erm , what are the problems with this er , with this concept erm , right , you 've got to get those sort of things in there , like you would in an essay , if you were asked to write an essay on reciprocal dumping you 'd , you 'd have all those things in there , right , but you only need to write a sentence , a sentence about them . |
| 30 | Had it been a professional job all that would matter from your point of view would be that you followed their instructions and moved at their pace with my help . |