Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 2 | Police think it could 've been just a dirty night out . |
| 3 | The reason for the neglect of climatic consideration has been partly the relative youthfulness of the science of urban climatology , and partly the relatively weak communication links that presently exist between climatology and planning . |
| 4 | ‘ She has been here a long time and will be here for even longer , ’ Felipe answered smoothly . |
| 5 | This siter has been here a long time and is part of the area . |
| 6 | The upshot of the erm the year of course has been rather a healthy lot of financial ratios . |
| 7 | Traditionally , he has been rather a mysterious figure with most of the audience seeing only his back . |
| 8 | However , the American evidence suggests that this growing familiarity with APRs has been rather an abstract affair . |
| 9 | The ‘ displacement ’ has been both a demographic and a cognitive recentring , a ‘ displacement from cause to effect ’ ( 117/119,118/120,172/174 ) . |
| 10 | Firstly , I hope to clarify what spiritual direction is — and what it is not — for it represents a tremendously rich tradition in the church 's history which , by its very nature , has been both a hidden and profound influence in the lives of many . |
| 11 | For him this convenience has been largely a negative factor for he thought of America as offering no other comparable diversion ; there were ‘ no beer gardens — no public concerts ’ and the question he asked was ‘ Who wants to sit at home and play bridge every night ? ’ |
| 12 | In most other matters , since 1945 , Britain has been effectively a dependent state , whether in peace or in war , and the dominance of British fiction across the world is unmatched by almost everything else , though some might hopefully seek exceptions in education , broadcasting and financial services like marine insurance . |
| 13 | For three centuries , however , an incident of landownership has been effectively the sole right to shoot deer on that land , either for sport or to prevent damage . |
| 14 | Because the common holly , Ilex aquifolium , has been around a long time and produced many ornamental varieties , you will find quite a few with fancy botanical names . |
| 15 | But as I 've already mentioned distributed database theory has been around a long time . |
| 16 | Furthermore , because technology has been primarily an add-on input to enrich the student 's experience , there arc few , if any , examples one can point to where it has improved system productivity . |
| 17 | After an early phase of rapid growth initiated by enterprising , indigenous farmers and leading to an increasingly capitalist social structure , by 1939 the Ghanaian cocoa industry had entered what has been generally a long decline accompanied by reduced employment of wage-labour . |
| 18 | Wales was once known as a fly-half factory , but since Jonathan Davies went North there has been not a single successor of world class selected for the national team and at the moment the signs are not good that one is about to come off the production like . |
| 19 | Though he has attracted some favourable notices in the last few years , his works have had very few prestigious performances , and there has been absolutely no powerful publicity machine or critical coterie building up behind him . |
| 20 | We would be happy to consider the prospects for thin slab steel production , but unfortunately there has been absolutely no commercial interest in such production . |
| 21 | In the EC there has been only a limited introduction of expanded audit mandates by individual member countries . |
| 22 | A demand for dolphin meat for human consumption has been only a recent trend , but high transport costs from the remote Iki Island made the export of edible dolphin meat uneconomic . |
| 23 | THE government spent £48m on a computer system for the Training and Enterprise Councils which has been only a partial operational success , according to a report today by the National Audit Office . |
| 24 | These lowland soils are called Brown Earths because there has been only a small amount of leaching which leaves the humus and chemicals fairly evenly spread between the A and B horizons of the soil . |
| 25 | It was in fact anticipated that the establishment of the Library Instruction Materials Bank ( LIMB ) in 1977 would remove some of the duplication in production , but there has been only a small measure of success here . |
| 26 | Since 1985 there has been only a marginal reduction in mental hospital beds : ‘ I think we lost some somewhere ’ , as Dr Peter Verbraak , Director of de Grote Bek Hospital in Groningen , recently commented . |
| 27 | In Britain , however , there has been only a modest and localised recent recovery by the extreme right . |
| 28 | From the many written questions that my hon. Friend has tabled on this matter , I note not only that the numbers of people in residential and nursing care have increased substantially , as we all know , but also the surprising fact that there has been only a modest fall in the numbers of people in local authority care . |
| 29 | The policy has been only an equivocal success . |
| 30 | Erm , er I 'll I 'll close it at two , but perhaps I could ask the the applicants erm , I mean I appreciate that obviously erm it er it economy in in in obviously in what you 're doing , but I think it it it would be fairly obviously to , I mean it 's been stated that that that that residents nearby would prefer either two bungalows or a house and a bungalow , and I think er that certainly erm new developments adjacent to where you are proposing these are in fact all bungalows , er with the exception of the mill , which of course has been there a long time , er all those on that side of the road , both those two built and those two proposed are a bungalow or a semi bungalow , er and so erm you can see that obviously it is that the height of these buildings , it is erm causing the offence , largely , erm I I think , I mean obviously you will want to main you know , optimize your er development , but whether er a scheme with two bungalows that they would n't be four bedroomed bungalows , because there would n't be room for two of the four two four bedroomed bungalows , erm |