Example sentences of "[ex0] have been [adv] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that the new members of Council have been welcomed into our midst and it must be along time since there 've been so many changes . |
| 2 | ‘ There 've been so many times when I 've lain awake at night longing for you to kiss me , make love to me . |
| 3 | There had been so many secrets . |
| 4 | During the short time their marriage had lasted , there had been so many times when she had given in to Julius 's forceful demands , just to keep the peace . |
| 5 | ‘ Our last two albums for them , ‘ Peace In Our Time ’ and ‘ No Place Like Home ’ , were stodgy affairs , and there had been so many hassles . |
| 6 | He was consumed by indignation that there had been so many attempts to swindle his country in its attempts to gain arms to protect itself from the aggression of Iraq . |
| 7 | There had been so many meetings ; 80 a day , someone had told him . |
| 8 | It was n't worth asking of what kind ; there had been so many beginnings . |
| 9 | There had been so many pieces of paper ; 50 million at least , someone else had told him , generated during his eight years as President . |
| 10 | It is important to be clear then about our reasons for feeling that we had to explain why women have come so far rather than explaining why there had been so few gains . |
| 11 | If there had been very few cases , the crime would not have had much importance . |
| 12 | There had been very few patients . |
| 13 | While they had been there the previous year there had been hardly any visitors . |
| 14 | I said that there had been substantially more submissions than the number he gave . |
| 15 | Lord Weir added that there had been too many incidents of vandalism to the danger of people on the railways . |
| 16 | There had been too many occasions on which she had tried to please , hoped for hugs or even smiles , times when she had practised the piano and cleaned her room assiduously , only to be met by jibes , or slaps , or worse still , beatings . |
| 17 | There had been too many films taken , shown on TV , of Franklin D. Hauser departing by Lear jet in the States for yet another destination . |
| 18 | Since then , looking back on it , there had been too many children 's holidays and not nearly as many lunches with girls in the ‘ Dolce Vita ’ as a man deserved . |
| 19 | But there have been surprisingly few mergers and acquisitions . |
| 20 | However , there have been rather few cases which have addressed at all directly the question of the legality of the use of nuclear weapons , and even fewer judgments touching on this . |
| 21 | There have been very few cases where microorganisms have been used for in situ removal of chlorinated , or even petroleum compounds , and conventional biological processes are more commonly used . |
| 22 | Since 1980 there have been very few reports of work design applications or developments . |
| 23 | To the best of my knowledge , for all the talk this question has engendered over the years , there have been very few attempts within the profession to formulate an official answer . |
| 24 | There have been very few attempts systematically to contrast their different properties . |
| 25 | In all my life there have been very few occasions when I badly wanted more money and that was one of them , because on my wage of three shillings a day as an AC2 I was unable to drape her with expensive clothes . |
| 26 | Indeed , the optic lobe contains a wealth of neurons which respond specifically to elaborate patterns of motion , such as the optic flow fields generated on a retina when an insect turns around or flies over the ground , but there have been disappointingly few descriptions of neurons with interesting spatial properties . |
| 27 | Well I think the short answer to that , Brian , is yes we do , but it 's an interesting time at which to ask that question because there have been recently some changes in the erm statutory provision for the education of what was previously called handicapped children . |
| 28 | There have been relatively few studies of modern cultural institutions outside the dominant fields of press and broadcasting , but on cinema see Mayer ( 1948 ) and on more recent approaches see Albrecht , Barnett and Griff ( 1970 ) . |
| 29 | There have been relatively few books written by senior officers of ‘ the other side ’ , and this certainly provides a commentary that will interest historians of the 1939–1945 air war . |
| 30 | And disillusionment certainly exists — there have been too many scandals involving politicians . |