Example sentences of "'s been [art] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 There 's been no shortage of excuses in the past few weeks for getting thoroughly ratted , for going down to The Lamb , finding a spot in the corner and spending the entire evening doing nothing more intellectually taxing than sinking five pints of Special .
2 Well , it 's been a story of ups and downs .
3 My wife 's been a couple of times si since then but not me .
4 I mean there 's been a couple of times that he 's really lost his temper with her and erm and , and really flown off the handle , badly .
5 Oh yeah she 's been a couple of times to see if I 'd swap .
6 ‘ And that 's something else you do n't know , there 's been a revolution in buses as well .
7 Trains are n't what they were , there 's been a revolution in trains . ’
8 ‘ There 's been a reversal to bands saying , ‘ We 're just in it for the music ’ , and we 're not like that at all .
9 But , I mean the concern Carters Mead Resident 's Association I think is well founded , I think there 's been a lot of problems and er I think it can come upon us all to keep talking with them and to improve the situation should the should Woolwich back out .
10 a point at the moment , with the life of the county , I think that we should great potential and great opportunity available to us , and I do hope that all members will er , and I 've written to all our members of parliament with a copy of my letter , er , I had I 've had er , I know it 's been the Christmas period , and that they 're only just getting back into things , and there 's been a lot of diversions at length , and I do have a letter from , er I heard from er , Edward , er , Mr Edward Lee , and and , I still have to hear it from er , the rest of them .
11 ‘ There 's been a lot of accidents , ’ he said .
12 Could be political , perhaps — there 's been a lot of rows about politics lately . ’
13 The company in charge of marketing the farm says there 's been a lot of inquiries .
14 Tied up with poll tax , it was done before poll tax was erm it 's only just been announced because there 's been a lot of negotiations going on , but the figure was committed before poll tax came into being — right ?
15 Yep , there 's been a lot of occasions in the last two to three months when I could really have done with access to a computer .
16 Some of the er that measure is not actually effective or not possible in the context of of the facility er I think there 's been a search for measures which will be effective and er erm that 's what the efforts gone in to , finding an effective way of preventing it .
17 And there 's been a string of others .
18 as if to bear this out , there 's been a flood of portables announced recently .
19 In the last twenty four hours there 's been a series of fires started by a handful of men in this block , though no cells have been damaged .
20 it might not be blatantly obvious to them that there , there 's been an improvement in communications .
21 There 's been an acceleration of incidents in the last five years .
22 I 've met him three or four times when he 's been the compere of things that I 've had some three-minute act on , and we 've seemed to get on together , but he 's not really what I go for .
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