Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of bed numbers it has substantially more relative to population than either London or New York , but like them has been closing short stay beds steadily since the mid-1970s . |
| 2 | The objective of the other forms of nationalization was clearly similar and the effect of each of them has been to reduce foreign ownership in the corporate sector to a relatively modest level . |
| 3 | But she has been given special dispensation to play in two events in her home state before that birthday . |
| 4 | For example , an investor might sell for 100p per share one week and if he or she has been proven correct in their expectations may buy the share for say 80p each the following week , thus netting a profit per share of 20p before transactions costs . |
| 5 | Our National Development Officer , Pat Palmer , qualified as a Medau Teacher in 1974 , since when she has been taking recreational classes in Kent and South london and teaching secondary school girls in Peckham . |
| 6 | In addition to the disqualifications that apply to voting , a person may not be a candidate if he or she has been declared bankrupt within the previous five years , has incurred or authorised unlawful expenditure by a local authority above £2,000 , or is a paid employee of the local authority in question or the holder of a politically restricted post in another local authority ( see pages 88 — 9 ) . |
| 7 | She has been granted legal aid to pursue an action in the Court of Session against Lothian Regional Council . |
| 8 | She has been appointed public relations assistant . |
| 9 | I rather suspect she has been imagining nameless orgies . ’ |
| 10 | Leeds youth justice manager Anne Oliver , who is also chairperson of the Association of Youth Justice , says she has been getting mixed messages about the first seven months of the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 11 | BABY kidnapper Caren McSweeney is so stunned by what she did that she has been struck dumb . |
| 12 | Ever since , she has been delighting deaf people she encounters by communicating in their own language . |
| 13 | He boasts in the Tory-backing Daily Mail that she has been proved right in her warnings against the European exchange rate mechanism . |
| 14 | It began with a love of children , but recently she has been making important speeches about the role of the family as a whole , and the dangers of drug abuse . |
| 15 | She has been left alone to lead something approaching a normal life now and then . |
| 16 | But she has been left stranded after thieves stole the blue Yamaha XT600 from the car park of a Southport hotel . |
| 17 | Finally , Dawn came here , where she 's been given practical and moral support . |
| 18 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 19 | Melanie 's beautiful , wilful , and she 's been spoiled rotten all her life . ’ |
| 20 | Now she 's been made Head Girl ; the first in 450 years . |
| 21 | Especially since we think she 's been running clear . |
| 22 | She 's been reported missing and we 're checking her movements for the two weeks before she vanished . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Supposing she 's been taken ill or something ? |
| 24 | But er according to Sharon she 's been sitting alone in er bed and breakfast and erm |
| 25 | He defends himself saying that ‘ for nearly thirty years ’ he has been using black and white and that , what is more , the Documenta logo was also black and white . |
| 26 | This causes him to doubt himself , that is his worthiness in loving Estella as he now thinks because he has been called common and coarse . |
| 27 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 28 | From 1977 he has been building luxury homes in various parts of North Wales , and in 1987 began a 16-home development at Deganwy which was to collect special awards . |
| 29 | He has been granted legal aid for the case , which if successful could lead to hundreds of other claims . |
| 30 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |