Example sentences of "been one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had in fact only been one occasion during those last years that Lewis could remember and he was sure Adam had only gone because there had been a promise of some shooting . |
| 2 | To summarize , for a well flagged group of patients , with small solitary non-invasive transition cell carcinomas at d at diagnosis , and negative three month cystoscopy , we found eighty percent of our patients would certainly have come to no harm at all if their second cystoscopy had been one year from diagnosis . |
| 3 | It used to be thought that the Revolution assured regular Parliaments , and it is certainly true that since 1689 there has not been one year without the meeting of Parliament . |
| 4 | Through all my sentences , and if you add them together , I 've done twenty-one , twenty-two months in all , there 's never been one day when I 've kept my mouth shut , without an argument or something . |
| 5 | for about three days , when they could have been one day . |
| 6 | ‘ There has only ever been one criteria for choosing a Wedding Present single . |
| 7 | That may have been one factor in causing her subsequently to bring up the children in the Jewish faith . |
| 8 | There has always been one factor which has dominated the convictions of those who have sought to establish a religion , or its equivalent under whatever name . |
| 9 | The highest priced work is the leaf from the Arenberg Psalter with illuminations on both sides , for which he paid about $520,000 in 1990 , admitting that he has been one factor in the rise in prices in single sheet miniatures at auction : ‘ Prices have climbed enormously because museum directors realise more and more that the history of painting before 1450 , and even into the sixteenth-century is to a very large extent found in illuminated manuscripts ’ . |
| 10 | In this latter respect , government policy ( or the threat of intervention ) would seem to be the most significant factor tending to remove authority over collective bargaining to the national confederations.9 Attempts to align the outcome of wage negotiations with macroeconomic policy objectives have been one factor which has tended to raise the level of bargaining and it has played a significant role at certain periods in countries such as Holland , Norway and Austria . |
| 11 | In Britain there has been a notable tension between the demands of law and order ideology and the practical impossibility of increasing prison populations exponentially , and this tension has been one factor encouraging the phenomenon of ‘ bifurcation ’ ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 12 | Allegations had been first made against Papandreou and three other politicians in connection with their dealings with the bank in late 1988 [ see p. 36562 ] and had been one factor in the electoral victory of the New Democracy party in April 1990 . |
| 13 | It is not clear how far there were similar local grievances to those of the Kentishmen in some of the other shires which were involved in the revolt , notably Sussex and Surrey , although it is probable that the resentment of the citizens of Salisbury at the powers which the bishop exercised there may have been one factor behind the murder of Ayscough ( 7 ; 147 , pp.63 , 66–8 ) . |
| 14 | Hull , too , suffered from the poor relations between England and the Hanse in the second half of the fifteenth century , and this may have been one factor which affected the trade of York , which had used Hull as a centre for exports . |
| 15 | Yeah , but there 's been , I think there 's been one warning when |
| 16 | The Ridgeway on the Berkshire Downs is edged by the traces of thousands of acres of late prehistoric fields and would have merely been one lane among many passing through a totally cultivated landscape . |
| 17 | Yesterday there had only been one dress on display . |
| 18 | In villages where there were four arable fields a typical set of crops would have been one field of wheat , one of barley , one of beans with one other field , known as the fallow , given over to grazing . |
| 19 | Well there 's certainly been one element of the the input to the preparation of the structure plan , but there has also been some independent view on the the capacity and the the environmental problems that individual districts across North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire have in their ability to accommodate development , and on the pressure and the problems that those pressures of development will have on those individual districts , bearing in mind the environmental constraints identified both in National and in the Secretary of State 's previous approval of the structure plan . |
| 20 | Even so , there has already been one triumph : inflation fell to 6% in the year to the third quarter , the lowest rate for 18 years apart from a brief spell in 1984–85 . |
| 21 | ‘ We now know that BSE exists on the Continent and there has not been one case in a Welsh herd . ’ |
| 22 | Since this paper was written , however , there has been one case in English law worth noting . |
| 23 | The LAS admitted yesterday there had been one case of a 25-minute delay in sending an ambulance . |
| 24 | There has been one crash at Crowfield , it was on Anglia News . |
| 25 | And there may only have been one clock in the town where they worked and that would have been on the town hall or the church . |
| 26 | As any mother will tell you , it has n't been one jot less exhausting and emotionally draining to live with a morose , depressed , melodramatic , self-obsessed exam-taker this year than any other year . |
| 27 | The turning point for me came after scum had been one fo the chosen matches for about 8 weeks in succession , then one evening it seemed they were nt . |
| 28 | The membership of an executive , has been one member from each county . |
| 29 | The martyr 's grave had been one type of such sites . |
| 30 | For some people their whole working lives so far have been one scheme to the next , never getting any really worthwhile training and never being paid a decent wage . |