Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present the advent of the All Blacks is concentrating the national rugby mind wonderfully and all four provinces have been in early-season action . |
| 2 | ‘ I am thinking that maybe these gentlemen have been to one English Wine Shop , ’ said Dr Haidar , speaking in that slightly sanctimonious tone that Muslims sometimes adopt when discussing alcohol . |
| 3 | Foreigners are flooding the market — in the last three weeks alone , six Norwegians have been to Premier League clubs on trial . |
| 4 | Your lads have been over this place with a fine-tooth comb . |
| 5 | The chances that he will get them out of a mire of their own making are as thin as their performances have been for most of the season . |
| 6 | American bond yields have been at 20-year lows , and shares are expensive . |
| 7 | ‘ Previously the losses have been through voluntary redundancies or retirements , losing some of our most experienced officers . |
| 8 | But some of the most fruitful findings at ancient sites have been by those such as the researchers on the Dragon Project discussed later in this chapter , trained in disciplines other than archaeology . |
| 9 | Indeed it would be surprising were we able to do so , since there are some fairly clear empirical examples of industries where publicly owned concerns have been of superior or equal efficiency to private ones , as we shall see in chapter 7 . |
| 10 | It is difficult to assess exactly how important such credit effects have been in this recession . |
| 11 | In their centenary year of nineteen eight eight they won the league and cup double , but since then honours have been in short supply . |
| 12 | Fire crews have been at full stretch dealing with flooded houses mainly in the Cotswolds . |
| 13 | The Garlands have been in this game for eighty years — accumulating , not spending . |
| 14 | Fortunately , not all recent pub refurbishments have been in this vein . |
| 15 | That is precisely where we have been , which is why so many of the decisions reached in the past two days have been on British initiatives that have been accepted across the whole of Europe . |
| 16 | Certainly the solutions to the ‘ black problem ’ of the past 200 years have been of limited vision — hostile , intolerant and frequently brutal . |
| 17 | Anti-terrorist squad officers have been on maximum alert for several months and have been expecting ‘ a spectacular ’ IRA bomb in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 18 | Impressive as its successes have been in such matters as the unravelling of the genetic code , nevertheless they represent only an infinitesimal step towards a complete account in conventional physical terms of even the simplest animal brain . |
| 19 | Books by , and about , lesbians have been in comparative abundance in the last 5 years or so but it 's debatable whether this literary output has served as insular affirmations or taken lesbian sexuality a little further down the road of acceptance . |
| 20 | But many of the studies have been on non-diabetic subjects and the hypoglycaemic stimulus was not always identical . |
| 21 | The majority of studies have been in urban areas and have focused on the activities of building societies and finance institutions in the private sector ( Ford 1975 ; Boddy 1976 ; P. R. Williams 1976 , 1978 ; Short 1978 ) , and on the activities of housing managers in the public sector ( Gray 1976a , 1976b ; Paris and Lambert 1979 ) . |
| 22 | Irvin and Martin 's assessment techniques have been in great demand abroad , even as the British science establishment closes ranks against it . |
| 23 | From the end of the Permo-Carboniferous ice age 250 million years ago to about 20 million years ago , polar regions have been without permanent ice . |
| 24 | Strictly speaking , marriage does not contribute directly to population change , but , because of its association with the legitimacy of births in most countries , marriage rates have been of some interest . |
| 25 | That 's a point I was going to make , but as far as I can tell in en masse , the main , the main nominated bodies have been of political parties . |
| 26 | The profits have been in public relations for a long time but too often those in charge have refused to invest some measure of it in capital equipment that would improve client services and the daily life of their workers . |
| 27 | As Table 6.1 b shows , however , bus journeys have been in rapid decline , and as a consequence ‘ many rural bus services have been reduced severely in frequency and part routes and whole routes have been withdrawn ’ ( Knowles , 1978 , 668 ) . |
| 28 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 29 | The rarity of such positive conceptions of homosexuality within , or in relation to , otherness , is the more significant given that homosexuals have been among those who have literally ( rather than metaphorically or theoretically ) embraced the cultural and racial difference of the ‘ other ’ . |
| 30 | The enquiries have been from those in government , both central and local , researchers as well as students , and schoolchildren . |