Example sentences of "have [adv] been [art] [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drink has always been a problem since men discovered how to distil and it is known that there were a great many small stills on the island . |
| 2 | Drink has always been a problem since men discovered how to distil and it is known that there were a great many small stills on the island . |
| 3 | Mine , at any rate , after the initial angers and resentments , has lingered on to this day , and I think there has never been a rime when I did not remember that love and think of Dana . |
| 4 | Surely they realised that it had all been a mistake once you explained ? ’ |
| 5 | Because the memories plaguing her were sending her quietly crazy , and it had only been a week since she had been out of his company . |
| 6 | According to one worker there had already been an occasion when she found Helen being ‘ fed , wiped and pushed round the house ’ . |
| 7 | However , there had always been a doubt as to whether or not Rodrigo could stay the mile and a half at Epsom . |
| 8 | CLR had also been a Trotskyist so I identified greatly with him . ’ |
| 9 | Lord and Lady Tryon had a house in Iceland where Charles had frequently been a guest before he was married . |
| 10 | Up until then people had made butter and sometimes cheese from the milk since there had never been a collection until Willie , who was a very good businessman , began to transport it out — on a horse and cart at first , until he acquired a wagon . |
| 11 | It 's only been a week since I was here , and she was in perfectly good health then . ’ |
| 12 | its , honestly it was and eventually of course it did come out and there 's always been a gap because the one behind |
| 13 | Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it |