Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [been] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Basilica Constaninina , now the Cathedral of Rome , S. Giovanni in Laterano , has since been many times altered and added |
| 2 | ( This is why , in the media , it has always been Tory governments that have created new radio or television channels , whether Radio Clyde , Granada Television , London Jazz Radio , or Channel Four . ) |
| 3 | I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money . |
| 4 | It has also been five centuries since the time of Leonardo Da Vinci , a critical figure in the development of human imagination . |
| 5 | The concept of these ‘ continental ’ Wendy Houses with little canvas porches , plastic see-through windows and PVC-checked curtains could only have been dreamed up by someone who has never been two degrees north of the equator . |
| 6 | They 'd only been married months , I thought they 'd had their first row and she 'd come home . |
| 7 | What had hitherto been regional versions of folk and country music now joined with the former ‘ racist ’ music of the coloured population , creating through cross-fertilisation modern , i.e. ‘ pop ’ , music . |
| 8 | I 've only been twelve months waiting for a |
| 9 | They had all been staunch Congregationalists , and Mary occasionally felt sad that she had left it all behind in childhood . |
| 10 | High levels of nitrate can cause ‘ blue baby syndrome ’ ( infantile methaemoglobinaemia ) , which is potentially fatal ( see below : Government Advice ) , but there had only been 3,000 cases worldwide since 1945 , and 14 in the UK since 1950 . |
| 11 | No doubt there had long been extreme Gregorians who would have liked to abolish the homage of ecclesiastical landholders for ecclesiastical lands . |
| 12 | There had long been some specialists , like vine-dressers or fishermen or cowherds or shepherds , who were producing food , but depended on others for their staple diet . |
| 13 | Likewise , in south Yorkshire , the cutlery factors and nailchapmen started in a modest way from the local ranks of metalworker-farmers whose surnames had long been characteristic ones in the area . |
| 14 | Within the Conservative party , particularly among local activists and MPs , there had long been numerous critics of the nationalized industries and advocates of a more market-orientated economy . |
| 15 | He also wanted to emphasize in the appraisal two issues he had already brought to the attention of staff : assessment of pupils — with which there had already been some changes — and language across the curriculum , which he felt required a more positive policy . |
| 16 | At the time of my visits there had already been considerable changes in terms of staffing and resources in line with advisers ' recommendations . |
| 17 | There had not been many Prussians at the bridge , for at best they had only been supposed to delay the French advance . |
| 18 | Would either of them have avoided bypass surgery if they had not been top athletes ? |
| 19 | Last night 's murders had not been bizarre slayings . |
| 20 | There 've already been several tailbacks — the longest stretched for 8 miles . |
| 21 | So they 've not been regular attenders since the age of fourteen or so and their dad and me have always been very tolerant . |
| 22 | This was not the first time that water had been collected in bulk , but hitherto those who indulged in the practice had generally been powerful bodies , like water or railway companies , who had acted under powers given them by legislation which at the same time made them liable for harm done by its escape . |
| 23 | They 've always been other years so I presume that |
| 24 | Like many small corps iii poor areas , there had always been financial problems , but this was nothing new to Major and Mrs Burrows . |
| 25 | A small , elegant building , it had been constructed in the last century by the Sanvitale family , who had always been passionate lovers of music and theatre . |
| 26 | They sat on the soft sand above the tide line while Adam ate ; there had always been fewer stones here , on this remote end of the beach where hardly anyone came . |
| 27 | They had always been careful hands , and she sensed an extra reverence in them now . |
| 28 | The dinners had always been all-male affairs , with formal suits and speeches , and long continued to be . |
| 29 | Since 1914 only ten British officers had ever been six times decorated for gallantry and one of these , Braham , who in 1951 was awarded the AFC for hazardous developmental work on all-weather fighter aircraft , uniquely achieved a seventh decoration . |
| 30 | Newcomers often found work in areas that lay outside the jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor and Corporation , in what had once been rural manors ; they moved constantly from one district to another . |