Example sentences of "[noun sg] [been] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discourse analysts have for over a decade been probing the properties of what has come to be called the conversational ‘ turn ’ . |
| 2 | Did you break in here , too , or has the back door been unlocked the whole time ? ’ |
| 3 | Had the system been accepted the first commercial power satellite might have been in operation by 2010 . |
| 4 | The Open Spaces Society , which is by far our oldest environmental pressure body has for more than half a century been encouraging the continuance of the ancient practice of Beating the Bounds by parish and community councils and local groups . |
| 5 | The second remarkable event was Henry 's marriage in May 1152 to another great heiress — not for nothing has the twelfth century been called the " Century of Heiresses " . |
| 6 | And just how long had Janine been beating the child ? |
| 7 | Picasso had , it is true , for some time been frequenting the different galleries of the Louvre . |
| 8 | The AHA had in fact been debating the issue of the future of the hospital for some years . |