Example sentences of "they [verb] [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ballymena , still without the injured Stevie Smith , have something to prove from what for them has been a poor season . |
| 2 | Two other Section I matches see Schweppes Cup winners North Down entertaining North , with the aim of finishing third in the league to complete what for them has been a fine season . |
| 3 | My dialogue with them has been an important part of the process of valuing their own contributions . |
| 4 | Well I think everybody would , that had had their privacy erupted like they had been because they 'd been a small community for well through the years you see and for strangers to come in , I think it applies in every place that you go to , new places , you know that are built up after it just being a little country village people do resent you but I think now that they , they are really erm accepting us for the fact that we have brought things that they would never have had had the new town not been er sta , you know started here . |
| 5 | And they 'd been they 'd been a dead lo they were a dead loss were n't they ? |
| 6 | He does n't now , whether they 've been a super star for a long time or if he 's never heard of them . |
| 7 | They 've been a great help , actually . |
| 8 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 9 | She did not know what sort of oddness to imagine , but they had been a long time and there had been peculiar noises . |
| 10 | It was as if they had served to draw some morbid agent from her blood , as if they had been a great black and damson poultice to draw off her petulant humours and leave her as placid as a Madonna . |
| 11 | The object of ( b ) is to require delivery of the accounts of an unlimited company if two or more limited companies would , if they had been a single entity , have been the parent of the unlimited company under the criteria in section 258 , although technically the unlimited company is not a subsidiary of any of them . |
| 12 | Into the Home territory beyond they had to go fairly warily , but less so than if they had been a weaker company , not because of fears that the Homes would betray them to Dunbar but in that they were always jealous of their declared rights to decide who should enter their country and what they should pay for the privilege ; but two hundred and fifty well-armed men in tight formation carried their own safe-conduct , and they rode through without challenge . |
| 13 | They had been a knee-jerk reaction , the result of her feeling unsettled by Vitor 's reappearance . |
| 14 | They have been a major force in church planting in south-east London in the 1980s . |
| 15 | Hence they have only contributed in a limited way to post-war housing , but they have been a major feature of a commitment to planned decentralization , even though , as Aldridge ( 1979 ) concludes , by the end it was a programme without a policy . |
| 16 | I was wrong , and they have been a dramatic success . |
| 17 | More recently they have been a popular adventure playground for youngsters . |
| 18 | Because they have been an important part of some historic eruptions , a few pumice deposits are well-documented , but surprisingly few have been studied closely from a geological viewpoint . |