Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Republic of Colombia won its independence from Spain in 1819 although its borders have been redrawn several times since . |
| 32 | One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening . |
| 33 | Farther north , in the Jaffna peninsula , where the rebels are strong , government aircraft have been bombing civilian areas . |
| 34 | Executive voices have been raised several octaves over the issue ( UX No 433 ) , and there does not appear to be any clear agreement yet on how COSE firms would level this playing field . |
| 35 | ‘ Fan have been growing bored with the sex and drugs and rock and roll syndrome . |
| 36 | In its monumental form this was not to mark a grave but to be a prize in the games and other competitions at festivals in the great sanctuaries of Greece ; especially Olympia , where the games were traditionally founded in 776 B.C. and where most of the best of these vessels have been found dedicated . |
| 37 | East Berliners have been offered free tickets for a football match today in West Berlin as well as to a number of concerts and the opera . |
| 38 | Books have been called many things in their time , but not ‘ lean and muscular ’ . |
| 39 | Former Test fast bowlers Sir Richard Hadlee and Michael Holding have been made honorary life members of MCC , as have the club 's former secretary Jack Bailey , Laurance Hancock ( secretary of Staffordshire for 53 years until 1987 ) and Glamorgan stalwart Don Shepherd , who took 2174 wickets for the Welsh county but never won a Test cap . |
| 40 | To talk up the prospects of change , some note that Japanese life insurers have been demanding bigger dividends lately . |
| 41 | Members in developing countries should note that additional funds have been made available for 1993 by the Society 's International Committee , to provide grants for successful applicants from such countries . |
| 42 | Apart from these cases , however , no additional project funds have been made available to Minor award schools , though several have made informal representations in the hope that extra funds may become available . |
| 43 | Additional funds have been made available for the purpose and , accordingly , the reforms — including the establishment of trusts — cause no adverse effects on the hospital maintenance programme . |
| 44 | ‘ The gangs have been going 23 years . |
| 45 | OFFICIALS of an apparently doomed workingmen 's club have been given fresh hope that it could survive . |
| 46 | Six miners have been trapped two thousand feet underground at Blisthorpe Colliery in Nottinghamshire . |
| 47 | They say gangs of youngsters have been targeting elderly people in the town centre and stealing purses from them . |
| 48 | Webbe 's appearances for Bridgend have been limited this season and he has only five tries so far . |
| 49 | Since then about ten new sites have been scheduled each week , and this could be seen as a deliberate blocking measure as it only takes place where the owner wants to do something with the site . |
| 50 | Since the 1950s parents have been accumulating more ( and always better ) consumer goods , domestic appliances , automobiles and luxuries . |
| 51 | Millions of parents have been saying this for months . |
| 52 | Half of the retention would be released upon the completion of the work by the sub-contractor and the balance at the end of the ’ contract ’ maintenance period , provided that all defects in the subcontractor 's work have been made good . |
| 53 | 7.6.3.2 any of the Permissions have been granted subject to a lawful condition with which [ it would be impossible for or in all the circumstances it would be unreasonable to expect ] the Landlord to comply |
| 54 | A clear conscience is a transparency resulting from the knowledge that all past wrongs have been put right . |
| 55 | Housing associations have been thrown off-balance by the combination of increased responsibilities , the reduction in the proportion of funding coming from government , and changed tenures . |
| 56 | No significant onshore placers are currently known but some offshore areas have been investigated such as the Mawddach estuary , near Dolgellau in North Wales , which was considered a prospect by RioFinex during the late 1960s . |
| 57 | Administrators have been given greater access to confidential documents , which could facilitate taking legal action against auditors and other advisers . |
| 58 | Neither the 2,000 Bari or the 6,000 Yukpa have been granted full land rights . |
| 59 | Trial reintroductions of dormice have been made possible by the imaginative captive-breeding programmes of Dot Heaton at Windsor Safari Park . |
| 60 | Lyons have been selecting fine teas for almost 100 years . |