Example sentences of "[been] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sales , however , have been disappointing , and there 's been nothing like the same kind of interest the earlier books had . |
| 2 | My thoughts this evening are much centred on Bishop Harris as he prepares to lay down the ministry which has been his for the past 14 years . |
| 3 | Who the other call was to Jihan has never revealed , but it is certain that it must have been someone of the highest importance , and that her purpose was to obtain from the most authoritative source possible some outside indication of what was happening in Egypt . |
| 4 | If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur . |
| 5 | There have been none of the special postage stamps or government statements which usually mark bicentenaries of famous writers . |
| 6 | There have been none of the head-on clashes that occurred in 1986 , when President Mitterrand had as his prime minister the neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac . |
| 7 | This change has not necessarily been one for the better . |
| 8 | Little is known of eruptions there , but there may have been one in the last decade , since sets of aerial photographs of the island taken many years apart show some slight changes . |
| 9 | There 'd been something in the local papers about me and my work , and these girls , aged about eight to eleven years old , sent me a book of poems they 'd written , printed and sold to raise money . |
| 10 | Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it . |
| 11 | The second Adam came , however , not only to save humankind , but to take us on to the destiny that should have been ours in the first place . |
| 12 | This would have been what in the late forties or fifties , would this be ? |
| 13 | And that would of been what in the fifties ? |
| 14 | Bernice wondered if there had been anything in the cold meat the woman had eaten . |