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Example sentences for "been the"

  • If you look from that, to my face, you will wonder what could have been the cause of all these scratches.

  • No publication speaks of this Peter, nor does any orator enumerate his qualities, while the other two chiefs have been the subjects of every species of descriptive talent, from that of the poet to that of the painter.

  • His thongs had impeded the circulation of the blood, and the usual temporary paralysis had been the consequence.

  • Who can determine what might have been the issue of her late convulsions, if the malcontents had been headed by a Caesar or by a Cromwell?

  • It is evident that this could not have been the intention, and that it will not bear a construction of the kind.

  • Had he been arrogant the effect would have been the same.

  • When that dead-lock had come, politicians who were really anxious for the country had been forced to look about for a Premier,--and in the search the old Duke had been the foremost.

  • Everybody of course knew that the Duchess had been the chief of the agents to whom he had alluded, but they had known as much as that before.

  • Oh, Sheila, you've been the making of me!

  • But with all my selfishness, I haven't stopped you--I haven't been the end of your talent.

  • I haven't been the end of your talent," he repeated.

  • A nut may be cracked by a steam-engine, but it has not, in being so, been the subject of the power of the engine.

  • But are received from whatever has been the subject of power.

  • For some time previously there had been The Anglo-French agreements of April 1904.

  • Next to these researches on the pressure of radiation, which, by forming the mechanical link between radiation and matter, are fundamental for the thermodynamics of radiant energy, the most striking recent result has been the discovery of H.

  • Objections to the trustworthiness of Acts on the ground of its miracles require to be stated more discriminately than has sometimes been the case.

  • The outward and visible sign has been the consummation of an inward and spiritual grace.

  • So that the more the birth-rate has fallen the higher has been the rate of increase among the population.

  • With herself--depreciation and unselfishness she would have been the last to believe how much of him was in her very existence; nor could we have realized it until the parting came.

  • Had I been the age I now am I might have saved my breath.

  • Catesby, who is evidently in the service of Richard, hath good reason for his belief that I warned the Queen and thus have been the cause of her taking refuge.

  • Ever hath it been the custom of our country's rulers to hold these martial gatherings whenever the good will of all classes is desired.

  • Cecilia; "and pray how long have these been the accomplishments of a fine gentleman?

  • For Mrs. Starling had a shrewd guess that such would have been the issue of things if she had let them alone.

  • And his sisters at home would ha' been the better of him.

  • The three dinners that followed in the next fortnight brought none of that old lighthearted companionship which had been the gayest of table-decorations.

  • If the target hadn't been the same on both scopes, he wouldn't have made the report since he would have thought he had a weather target.

  • The scientists knew about them, especially the Tremonton Movie, because since late July they had been the subject of many closed-door conferences.

  • Had the press been aware of some of the other UFO activity in the United States during this period, the Washington sightings might not have been the center of interest.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been allowed; been brought; been carried; been decreed; been discovered; been employed; been for; been found; been left; been married; been obliged; been pleased; been possible; been removed; been revealed; been said; been sitting; been the; been thinking; been through; been trying; been very; centripetal force; mie des; physical features; state bank