Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [vb base] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , Wang 's sons have been major beneficiaries of those reforms . |
| 2 | Rents linked to the tenant 's turnover have been common for many years , particularly in mining leases . |
| 3 | The women 's organizations have been instrumental in promoting women 's rights , particularly the need to train women , to assume responsibilities outside the domestic sphere , They are running various workshops and co-operatives which were initially started through the financial support of women 's groups in Europe and elsewhere . |
| 4 | Products containing NutraSweet 's Simplesse have been available in the US market for over a year , but were only launched in the UK earlier this year . |
| 5 | Euro Disney 's costs have been exorbitant , and a slumping French property market has deprived the firm of hoped-for profits from property development . |
| 6 | GIVEN THAT Jacob 's Mouse have been involved in this rock ‘ n ’ roll malarkey in some form or another from an age when your hack still believed a bosom was Captain Birdseye 's right hand man on the SS Fishfinger , you would , perhaps — just like the kids of Bury St Edmunds — expect Sam , Jebb and Hugo to be precocious little shits with heads as big as Frank Sidebottom 's . |
| 7 | Mr Budgen said : ‘ The Government 's actions have been disgraceful , describing Maastricht as an issue of confidence in private and denying it in public . |
| 8 | AT&T 's managers have been disappointed to find the unions turning a clean sweep of the committees into a test of the company 's good faith . |
| 9 | Past generations of British farmers made dairy products ‘ for the house ’ yet today 's farmers have been slow to exploit a potential that exists for selling these products directly . |
| 10 | Denied the opportunity of supervising a major programme of construction in New York , where the Whitney Museum 's trustees have been unable to agree Michael Graves 's proposal for an extension , he is taking responsibility for the final stages of the conversion , now estimated to cost $35 million , of an ornamental warehouse located on Pittsburgh 's North Side , which will accommodate the museum . |
| 11 | In real ( CPP ) terms , ICI 's sales have been flat throughout the period , at around 92 £12bn to 92 £15bn ; as have GEC 's real sales , at around half ICI 's level . |
| 12 | JIMMY Young 's friends have been intrigued to receive a change of address card announcing that ‘ Alicia and Jimmy Young have now moved to Chiswick ’ . |
| 13 | IN the four months since Mr Major emerged from negotiations in the Dutch town of Maastricht , his main rivals among the European Community 's leaders have been embarrassed by their electorates . |
| 14 | In the finely balanced world of Israeli politics , such pronouncements are important in swaying public opinion and the Rebbe 's critics have been vociferous in condemning this stance . |
| 15 | THE England women 's selectors have been able to include both Fatima Whitbread , the javelin world champion , and Tessa Sanderson , the Commonwealth champion , in the 48-strong team for January 's Commonwealth Games in Auckland , despite neither woman throwing at the trials in August . |
| 16 | As noted in Chapter 1 , among the most important factors supporting London 's position have been external economies of scale — the mutual benefits arising from the concentration of financial firms in one location . |
| 17 | With more spirit and élan on the attack than the dogged Britisher , he was also much more impressionable in adversity , altogether less capable of the kind of orderly , defensive retreat such as Britain 's soldiers have been accustomed to during so much of her military history . |
| 18 | The suggestion is he has topped up his stake in the past few weeks when Grand Met 's shares have been weak , falling from 658p . |
| 19 | The ‘ discovery ’ of genes determining alcoholism , schizophrenia , manic depression and Alzheimer 's disease have been peer-reviewed published in leading scientific journals . |
| 20 | Indeed many of the fish you see in your aquatic retailer 's tanks have been commercially-bred for the hobby . |
| 21 | Norman Brackley 's family have been growing Sweetpeas for 4 generations . |
| 22 | Issues about women 's autonomy have been central to feminist thinking and action . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , some private members ' bills have been important and become a focus for public attention . |
| 24 | ‘ For most of the past three years , ’ he writes , ‘ banks ' customers have been unable to service their debts out of income growth , with the result that many have been and will be forced to shrink their non-interest expenditures or sell assets in order to pay bank interest . |
| 25 | IF Evander Holyfield 's fists prove as fast and slick as the promoters ' tongues have been these past few days , his world heavyweight title defence against Riddick Bowe tonight promises to be a masterpiece . |
| 26 | First , well-developed mineworkers ' unions have been able to influence policy-makers , particularly with regard to pursuing a cheap food policy . |
| 27 | Although a range of XPG4 specifications have been available for a while now , X/Open says the fact that vendors will bring XPG4-compliant products to market as soon as the end of this month ( see front page ) , demonstrates the measures it has taken to make the latest XPG release more flexible and structured . |