Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [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 | The waiting outside in the wind and the snow had been too much for a majority of the newsmen who had shown up originally . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The kind of supervision suggested by the college could be achieved by guardianship ; yet guardianship under the Act has been very little used . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Goodbye and good riddance to the propaganda parade Television coverage of the election campaign has been so much oil on shallow water . |
| 10 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 11 | I am sure our experience with our youngest child has been very much due to the fact that the whole family has been involved . |
| 12 | 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 ) ' |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She thought at first that his ordeal had been too much for him and that his mind was wandering . |
| 15 | But the question had been there all the time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The excitement of Cynthia 's revelation had been too much for her and Cynthia now anxiously rang the bell for the nurse . |
| 20 | ‘ My wife has been dead these two years . |
| 21 | Thus far , the emphasis has been very much on the natural science aspects of environmental monitoring and prediction . |
| 22 | erm The Health Service has been very much male-orientated . |
| 23 | Or else his handicap had been rather less than she had reckoned . |
| 24 | The shock had been too much for her precarious hold on sanity and she had been removed to Rainhill Asylum in a strait jacket . |
| 25 | The overtones of a heavy relationship had been everywhere that night at Ib 's Club . |
| 26 | Her own father had been as much of a weakling as her husband subsequently became ; Gustave supplanted him . |
| 27 | The following day Cardinal Dopfner claimed that the commission responsible for producing the schema had been too much under the influence of the Lateran University — then at odds with the Jesuits , and that the commission had refused to collaborate with the Secretariat for Promoting Unity . |
| 28 | At the time of King William 's visit in 1861 , Prussian policy had been simply that of holding to the treaties of 1815 with no thought of altering the status quo . |
| 29 | McGilligan 's subsequent achievements in the Ireland jersey have been well chronicled and since then the Dungiven joiner has been very much up with the big boys . |
| 30 | The journey had been too much for her , he thought apprehensively , but when she spoke it was in a cheerful raised voice . |