Example sentences of "[adv] been [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Explaining their resignations in terms of the desire to " recover [ their ] freedom " , Wade said that he and the other PDS ministers had been excluded from government action and had only been party to decisions over " trivial " issues . |
| 2 | Places such as Ceylon , Colombo , Port Said , the Suez Canal , had only been names in textbooks and beyond her wildest dreams . |
| 3 | For example , there have already been reports of hospitals giving preference to patients of fundholding general practitioners . |
| 4 | Though there have always been differences between countries outside the First World , for a long time it did appear to make sense to speak of The Third World , the title of Worsley 's very influential book ( 1973 ) on the subject . |
| 5 | There have also been reports of piles of school books gathering dust in shops , because people can not afford to buy them . |
| 6 | There have also been proposals for cuts in public spending . |
| 7 | There has also been criticism of members of my family for behaviour which was judged to be unseemly for people whose responsibility is to set a good example . |
| 8 | There has been work on imperfect monitoring in reputational models , Benabou and Laroque ( 1988 ) , Fudenberg and Levine ( 1988 , 1989 ) ; and there has also been work on models with a continuum of types , Milgrom and Roberts ( 1982 ) . |
| 9 | There had also been problems with leaflets for Newcastle North and Central , Redcar , Gateshead and North Durham . |
| 10 | However , recently , there has also been emphasis on inequalities that arise out of gender or ethnic differences . |
| 11 | Furthermore , during the 1980s there has also been shift of resources away from hospitals towards the family practitioner services in order to build up ‘ primary care ’ . |
| 12 | Black minorities have frequently been casualties of rules and procedures which may not have been intended to discriminate against them but which , in effect , do so and there is considerable resistance when the hitherto taken-for-granted procedures are brought into question . |
| 13 | There has n't been duty on books since 1860 , when it was seen as a tax on knowledge . |
| 14 | There has n't been duty on books for more than a hundred and thirty years , in 1860 it was seen as a tax on knowledge and abolished . |