Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some areas of Scotland , the rise has been as much as 35 per cent . |
| 2 | But funding has been significantly less than other programmes , dissemination of materials less effective and leadership less dynamic . |
| 3 | and Euston , I believe all those parish councils have written to the county surveyor , erm , wilfully the er H G V ban and saying how successful they think it is , now the proposals in this paper do n't have any particular effect on them , but I would want to pass on to the officers here in case it has n't erm quite registered , but this ban has been very much welcomed on the northern section of the A ten eighty eight where although it 's not a formal ban the affect on villages particular such as |
| 4 | The effect has been so many priorities and urgent tasks to change the meaning and the effect of the concept . |
| 5 | As Rachel reached her flat and let herself in she found herself trying to remember whether David had been there that evening when her mother had sent for her . |
| 6 | The waiting outside in the wind and the snow had been too much for a majority of the newsmen who had shown up originally . |
| 7 | Her fine words had been so much whistling in the dark . |
| 8 | Charles and Ann had been out several times together , there had been no aggression , and they were being more affectionate . |
| 9 | Sue 's been there all bloody day . |
| 10 | David 's been away all week ? |
| 11 | Her work has been very much as ‘ back-room ’ for her husband in his political career , and jointly with him in their shared interests — two books on the church architecture of London and one on Northern Lazio in Italy . |
| 12 | The kind of supervision suggested by the college could be achieved by guardianship ; yet guardianship under the Act has been very little used . |
| 13 | The issue has been very much on the minds of some of the current councillors after the South Eastern Education and Library Board decided to place Lisburn above Bangor in the priority list for new library premises . |
| 14 | Goodbye and good riddance to the propaganda parade Television coverage of the election campaign has been so much oil on shallow water . |
| 15 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 16 | ‘ Hyde has been here all this time why did n't he destroy this will ? ’ |
| 17 | I am sure our experience with our youngest child has been very much due to the fact that the whole family has been involved . |
| 18 | Per ton of steel , such assistance has been substantially less than that supplied by many European governments ( often to subsidize the losses of uncompetitive plants ) ' |
| 19 | Hello folks , my boss has been away this morning so I 've been busy scanning a few leeds picies and saving them as gif files . |
| 20 | She thought at first that his ordeal had been too much for him and that his mind was wandering . |
| 21 | But the question had been there all the time . |
| 22 | It would be misleading to corrall all the donated works into feminist questioning of gendered identity ; one of the freedoms women have won for themselves over the last 20 years has been precisely those freedoms from conventional definition by gender . |
| 23 | Similarly it was in a private letter that a Cornish mine agent wrote in 1793 : The common tinners continue to be very refractory and insolent : many of them refuse to work , and have not gone underground for three weeks past — They have no cause for it for their wages have been rather too high lately than otherwise ; the consequence has been too much brandy drinking and other bad practices . |
| 24 | Now I mean I am interested in this problem , and I have been involved in situations where teachers have sought help in trying to change their teaching style in the classroom , but in all these cases this help the initiative has been very much from the teachers themselves and they 've wanted to do it , they 've wanted to experiment with it and have been given a lot of support and help with it . |
| 25 | The return journey through the town had been uphill most of the way ; her legs were trembling and her breath was coming in short , uneven gasps as the castle gates came into view , but she would not protest . |
| 26 | The excitement of Cynthia 's revelation had been too much for her and Cynthia now anxiously rang the bell for the nurse . |
| 27 | My few months of married life with Helen had been so much lotus eating . |
| 28 | Non-German buyers have been relatively few . |
| 29 | Sometimes the advances have been less that brilliant , but the demand is there . |
| 30 | Troops have been there some time and they 're familiar with locals on the ground . |