Example sentences of "[noun sg] has been [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | But already the decision has been given all party support in the House of Lords . |
| 2 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 3 | One result of my illness has been to change all that : When you are faced with the possibility of an early death , it makes you realize that life is worth living and that there are lots of things you want to do . |
| 4 | And McDonald 's UK president , Paul Preston , said : ‘ The restaurant has been packed all morning . |
| 5 | He thinks , by the sheer fact of not playing on something , his contribution has been to leave all the space for everybody else . |
| 6 | One approach to the problem has been to list all the various kinds of non-business organizations , pointing out their political , economic , and social differences , and then build the accounting theories from there . |
| 7 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 8 | I take on the role of the mayor to ask — " What on earth has been causing all this damage ? " |