Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the subject of batsmen and short-pitched bowling ; none apparently has been game enough to demand a fuller length , especially as this involves addressing such request to the likes of Denzil , Balfour or Elconn . |
| 2 | This forms the real test of the success of the project : up to that point all has been analysis , estimate and hope . |
| 3 | This forms the real test of the success of the project : up to that point all has been analysis , estimate and hope . |
| 4 | Cubby has been associated with the Dundee Club for over 30 years , and for the past 15 years or so has been football representative on the Regional Committee of the Sports Association/Staff Club . |
| 5 | Natch if the operation had gotten the go-code , that List would only have been part of it . |
| 6 | They can only have been insignia marking the lady 's status as a royal consort . |
| 7 | erm potentially , in a rich soil , in a wide range of erm crops , of course , coffee , cotton , tea , especially have been export earners in the past , but also they produce sugar and erm basic foodstuffs . |
| 8 | It may just have been coincidence , but since the A1GSM went in , I have had no trouble at all with fish ailments . |
| 9 | The colourless liquid in the glass she carried might just have been water , perhaps ; but whatever it was she seemed unwontedly sober . |
| 10 | But it might just have been anxiety . |
| 11 | Then he had realised that the originator of the plot could just as easily have been Burun — intending all the time that it should fail — achieving at a stroke the removal of effective opposition , placing Artai in debt to the Merkuts for the security of his throne . |
| 12 | No donor 's name is even hinted at but it could easily have been Lance Henly . |
| 13 | Polston 's goal grabbed the headlines but it could so easily have been Villa 's Garry Parker who was the hero of the night . |
| 14 | There was the dark-eyed , slant-featured look of the ancient lost Royal Houses of Ireland in several of them , the glossy hair that might easily have been fur in others . |
| 15 | Rosa often went to the washplace with Sabina to help her and she was glad that she could pull her blue cotton dress out of the basket and slosh it into the water before anyone else could examine it for stains ; not that the stain spoke openly of its origins ; it could easily have been milk , thought Rosa . |
| 16 | It surprised me but it could easily have been tiredness from being out so long . |
| 17 | This Mr Deputy Speaker , could easily have been accommodation had the bill been brought to the house just seven weeks earlier than it actually was brought to the house , seven weeks were n't the problem . |
| 18 | Had the top layer of chalk found on the surface soil of the Falaises been mostly of the Micraster type , it is extremely improbable that there would ever have been champagne . |
| 19 | Her ‘ after ’ photographs portrayed a very very different shaped lady — one you would not have believed could ever have been pear shaped . |
| 20 | Even with auxiliary regiments present , there would still have been work for an official to oversee civilian activities . |
| 21 | This could hardly have been coincidence . |
| 22 | There would hardly have been harmony between them if they had the same desires , if their interests coincided , if they were a threat to each other . |
| 23 | Only tame , domesticated animals could possibly have been part of the goods and chattels of that early band of pioneers , striking out for a new island home . |
| 24 | There would always have been ambivalence towards her charges because they were not only a means to an end , but also rivals for the limited rations of parental attention . |
| 25 | There was a transparent sachet of something brown and thick , chocolate paste or miso ; one dried-up anchovy in an open tin , its coat of salt dried to a hard crust ; and a smear of something on a saucer that might once have been pesto sauce . |
| 26 | He landed in a heap of what might once have been straw . |
| 27 | This is conceded in respect of an offence which would once have been larceny by a trick . |
| 28 | The model had been increasingly internationalized as the churches of Latin America , Asia and Africa were given a more active role within it — but then in principle it always had been internationalist , and even in class terms egalitarian , the greatest of all ultramontanes being the socially radical English Cardinal Manning . |
| 29 | Always had been room . |
| 30 | Quite apart from the desire for steady and precise steering qualities as offered by the conical camber of the Rogallo sail forms , there always have been kite flyers who were less interested in ‘ Figurekiting ’ and more inclined to the spectacular fast flying trains of smaller kites with linked bridles . |