Example sentences of "[noun sg] [ex0] have been [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result there had been very few scientific studies which would make their case harder to win , he said . |
| 2 | In comparison there has been very little work on the psychology of masculinity and the nature of male identity , although both men ( and women ) are becoming increasingly interested in the forms masculinity might assume in the 1990s and beyond . |
| 3 | In my own case , he wrote , and I can speak only for myself , in my own case and in my own life there have been very few genuine beginnings , only three or perhaps four . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That night by the river there had been so much blood … |
| 6 | Part of the reason there has been so little bloodshed is that nobody yet is certain who killed Mr Gandhi or why . |
| 7 | For one thing there have been too many of them already ( Ellery Queen 's Mystery Magazine in America , perhaps the best and almost the only vehicle for the crime short story , no longer looks as new Holmes tales , as I know to my cost . ) |
| 8 | While they had been there the previous year there had been hardly any visitors . |
| 9 | And this year there 's been very little change altogether , you may have noticed that or very little change at all . |
| 10 | In fact there has been so much to amuse that I have scarcely read a book and have written but little . |