Example sentences of "they [verb] [been] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alas , they were not safe , and what happened to them has been a matter of considerable argument . |
| 2 | Key among them has been a failure in the UK to build appropriate or adequate bridges between business , the universities , and other sources of innovation like the national laboratories . |
| 3 | Ballymena , still without the injured Stevie Smith , have something to prove from what for them has been a poor season . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These conflicts have , of course , had diverse and individual causes , but common to them has been a change in the political environment in which public enterprises operate . |
| 6 | My dialogue with them has been an important part of the process of valuing their own contributions . |
| 7 | Mrs. Mirjam Foot of the British Library ( and currently Editor of the British Library Journal ) who kindly looked into the problem for me , pointed out that while there were some stationers whose initials and dates fitted , such as Richard Baldwyn , who worked in London till 1590 , there is no evidence of any one of them having been a bookbinder . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Before the colliery explosion they 'd been a fire , in a certain district , twenty yards long . |
| 10 | And they 'd been they 'd been a dead lo they were a dead loss were n't they ? |
| 11 | They 've been a great help , actually . |
| 12 | He does n't now , whether they 've been a super star for a long time or if he 's never heard of them . |
| 13 | Sleek , sexy styles need body and bounce and what better way to achieve this than with heated curlers — they 've been a girls best friend for decades . |
| 14 | They 've been a nuisance for several days now . |
| 15 | Apparently they 've been a bit disturbed once or twice , recently . ’ |
| 16 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 17 | I mean they 've been a rabble all afternoon anyway , have n't they ? |
| 18 | He says they 've been a thorn in the side of the auhtorities . |
| 19 | ‘ Or they 've been a bully before , and they just go downhill . |
| 20 | they 've been a pain . |
| 21 | But I mean i i certainly if you go through the , the early bits erm I mean i i i if you take well okay the , the organization bit to begin with , but then hitting the landlords politically er you know y you 're , you 're checking their accounts , you 're imposing their fines when they 've been a bit naughty , you 're letting contributions erm you 're crowning them and going through the streets , you 're locking them up , you 're banishing some of them , you might be executing some of them but i it 's , it 's only specifically where they 've offended against your , your view of the moral economy , where they , where they 've sort of been naughty in terms of |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I just assumed they were trying to cut back as they had been a bit too lavish . |
| 24 | They had been a way of ‘ coasting ’ slightly , when I 'd run out of steam . |
| 25 | A Washington survey , for example , showed that 38 per cent of those asked revealed that they had been a victim of a serious crime within the last year , compared to the 10 per cent revealed by police statistics . |
| 26 | They had been a team for years : the tiny wiry Eve with her restless eyes never settling long on anything or anyone ; the big handsome Benny , with her green eyes and chestnut-brown hair , tied back with a bow always , a big soft good-quality bow a bit like Benny herself . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They had been a match , an Indian and a cowboy . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was only at this late stage that she began to think about them ; they had been a means to an end , Frederica Potter 's removal from Blesford and Yorkshire . |