Example sentences of "[noun sg] [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Had the contract been simply for so many tons of potatoes of a particular quality then , although each party might have had in his mind when he made the contract this particular crop of potatoes , if they had all perished , the defendant would still have been bound to deliver the quantity contracted for . ’ |
| 2 | But Vicky 's now , she had erm anorexia the girl friend , she sort of got over it but then er hos , her mum and , oh it 's all very confusing , mum and the boy friend been together for years , they 've now split up , Vicky 's now , it 's all been sort of everything on top of her |
| 3 | Churchill , had he by chance been already in power , would simply have been wrong . |
| 4 | It has often been pointed out , and in my view with justice , that the school curriculum has in the past been overwhelmingly in the power of the universities . |
| 5 | But the movement had in fact been consistently under attack since 1923 when Trotsky devoted a chapter of his Literature and Revolution to a critique of Formalism . |
| 6 | And the gap which had to some extent been there from the beginning in popular consciousness between ‘ Hitler 's war ’ for racial empire and territorial aggrandisement , and the patriotic defence of the ‘ Fatherland ’ was widening . |