Example sentences of "[conj] [ex0] have been so " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He has now got a new incentive at Forest where there have been so many changes . ’
2 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 .
3 One of the difficulties that results from these cuts and that tax has been that there had been so numerous that it ca n't keep count of how many times they 'd changed the goal posts , how many times they imposed cuts , but you know a lot of the government 's ideas are that it 's money , money , money , but it 's not all financial , it 's been physical and mental .
4 but the fact that there 's been so much debate
5 It is surprising therefore , that there has been so little public interest in this country in proposals to release into the environment living , man-made creatures .
6 It is not perhaps since Romanticism that there has been so much discussion , and underlying uncertainty , about the market of literature , and it is no accident that recent years have seen an expansion of the sociology of literature as an academic discipline , alongside increased research into reading habits , the best-seller and how to write it , and the levels of writing that appeal to different strata of the public .
7 Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care , it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date .
8 Indeed , it is precisely because there has been approximately equal progress on both sides that there has been so much progress in the level of sophistication of design .
9 Despite research into some aspects of the error propagation issue in spatial data processing ( e.g. Blakemore 1984 ; Chrisman 1984 ; Drummond 1987 ; Goodchild and Dubuc 1987 ; Walsh et al. 1987 ) , Burrough ( 1986:103 ) correctly points out that ‘ It is remarkable that there have been so few studies on the whole problem of residual variation and how errors arise , or are created and propagated in geographical information processing , and what the effects of these errors might be on the results of studies made . ’
10 Well er as I say the position of the Parish Council the fact that there have been so many objections are fully reported in the committee papers today .
11 ‘ 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 .
12 And there had been so much coverage , a retrial would have been impossible .
13 The route has been described to death and there have been so many accounts of the leading objects , I am inclined to be silent till I reach some spots where fewer pens have essayed to give to the world their portraiture , allowing the sketches engraved to leave my mite of tribute alike to the noble natural architecture of the Isle of Caves and the art treasures in the Isle of Ionic Crosses .
14 Oh dear , I thought that was funny yes cos there 's been so much
15 But there have been so many of these little mistakes , you see , that we 've been obliged to have a warrant made out . ’
16 ‘ I have been trying to get the traders out for eight years , but there have been so many obstructions . ’
17 Because there has been so little change in British industrial and fiscal policies in a changing world , the emerging nations are overtaking us , gaining access to our markets at home and abroad .
18 Evaluation of the McClellan system is difficult because there have been so few opportunities to see it in operation .
19 But what , I think we do need to have is quite a a a a a we 've not a no solution body who would agree with me , er you know , some of the things that have gone on within the er er agricultural industry in terms of gang masters , which is if if surely if if if we had been more clearly defined if would enforce probably the whole industry into disrepute , and I feel that we do need a a a a a a a framework , with a with a supply into Europe , because in the end we will not just be competing against other European countries we will be competing against the third world and some producers that are producing very different situations , so , I I think er , and and I 'm concerned that it is the , it is that delegation , and it is the interpretation that our own government will put on it , because there 's been so much mythology surrounding Europe .
20 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 .
21 Since there have been so many hermaphrodite creatures in classical sculpture , I must admit that at times here I had to double check both top and bottom .
22 We noted the omission of any mention of meat and asked her particularly about this , as there have been so many debates among anthropologists in recent years as to the origins of hunting and meat-eating .
23 IT SICKENS me that hit records promoting the drug Ecstasy through hidden messages in the lyrics have been allowed when there have been so many deaths from it and now the hospitalisation of Flake model Rachel Brown .
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