Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last fortnight some prisoners have been here in person . |
| 2 | Few cultures have been so willing to tempt the gods . |
| 3 | Already some groups have been discretely visiting the cliff , but the BMC would appreciate it if some people could continue to obey the present climbing ban until new abseil stations ( the familiar two-bolts-and-a-chain ) are in place . |
| 4 | Some activities have been specifically excluded : ( Parts III and IV Schedule 1 FSA 1986 ) . |
| 5 | The last few hours had been simply hell . |
| 6 | It is not merely the case that some subjects have been numerically dominated by men and others numerically dominated by women ; as Keller ( 1983 ) has argued , science is generally regarded as more masculine than the arts : |
| 7 | Any voice can be divided easily into two or even three separate parts , and we need have no fear that listeners will easily detect that some voices have been correspondingly weakened . |
| 8 | FROM the moment that Gary Mason announced his amiable presence at a gymnasium in London 's East End yesterday it was pleasingly evident that few fighters have been less inclined to flinch from the truth . |
| 9 | Some Jews had been conspicuously successful in adapting to British life and they undoubtedly brought a new vitality to an economically declining region . |
| 10 | One newly-qualified accountant , who is considering a trip to the Far East for a few months , said winter was traditionally a busy time for accountants because companies are preparing for their financial year-ends but the last few months had been very quiet . |
| 11 | For the queen the last few months had been perhaps harder then for the Shah himself . |
| 12 | THE bottom has dropped out of morality , according to Lord Hailsham , who added that the ‘ last few months have been particularly difficult to bear . ’ |
| 13 | I feel some drivers have been very , very lucky and the last thing we want is to have complacency creeping in . |
| 14 | Some fans have been on to say that calling for the manager 's dismissal is not the answer . |
| 15 | Some aspects have been profoundly and even repetitively studied ; others apparently neglected . |
| 16 | On the other hand , very few checklists have been systematically evaluated in relation to the formal criteria which are normally applied to language tests ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 17 | ’ Some companies have been very conciliatory , ’ though they 've still come out with lines like ’ if only you 'd talked to us first … ’ . |
| 18 | In keeping with that statement growth in undergraduate numbers over the past few years has been less than 1 per cent a year . |
| 19 | Yet the advances in multiple sclerosis in the last few years have been very encouraging . |
| 20 | Resentments may persist between members of staff who belonged to different unions , and in particular the goodwill between headteacher and staff seems in some places to have been almost irreparably damaged . |
| 21 | ‘ Still , the last few days 've been all right . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I should have phoned but the last few days have been so hectic that I did n't have time , ’ Claudia said as she gave Myra a brief account of finding Dana . |
| 23 | Everyday is election day in politics and few governments have been more aware of it than the Westminster ones since the beginning of the ‘ Ulster troubles ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ The past few weeks have been more encouraging , ’ says his father , former saloon racer Andrew Kane . |
| 25 | Though some secondees had been directly or indirectly approached about a secondment , most of the secondees had applied for jobs and were delighted with the prospect . |
| 26 | A long-term irritant to the police has been the ongoing allegation that some officers have been closely connected with freemasonry . |
| 27 | Some farmers have been so convinced by industry-generated publicity over the absence of a proper income that they just have n't bothered declaring any income . |
| 28 | True ivory is one of the few substances to have been highly esteemed for symbolic purposes wherever it could be obtained . |
| 29 | Few forecasts have been so wide of the mark . |
| 30 | Some centres had been very successful in training these children to make valuable objects . |