Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Earth and the Moon are so close together that it has been estimated that the exposure of both planets to asteroids and comet debris has been much the same . |
| 2 | He 'd been exactly the same once before when he 'd found out that Pete had seen Last Tango in Paris ( ‘ Yeah , but what did they actually do ? ’ ) and now , as then , Pete had taken care to fine-tune Ted 's frustration to the point of obsession . |
| 3 | He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past . |
| 4 | I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch . |
| 5 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |
| 6 | But it would have been exactly the same problem simple harmonic motion |
| 7 | ‘ In that case you should have been here a few hours ago . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 9 | If the senatorial rules had not been used the effect would of course have been essentially the same . |
| 10 | In this Law shared the view of his party , but it would have been substantially the same without him . |
| 11 | But things would have been much the same . |
| 12 | The painting by H.T. Wells RA depicts HEADBURY QUARRY a little west of Dancing Ledge but the view of Tilly Whim early in 19th century would have been much the same . |
| 13 | Whatever they were called , the duties of all these officials must have been much the same , acting as leaders of their communities , settling minor infractions and disputes , approving corporate actions of the inhabitants , especially in religious dedications , and acting generally as an essential link between government and people . |
| 14 | ‘ The public should be left in no doubt that if it was n't for the police patrol there would have been quite a few fatalities . |
| 15 | ‘ There must have been quite a few since Lucia and Michele . ’ |
| 16 | sticks , erm , there must have been quite a few schools for girls |
| 17 | I was a little anxious as to payment , which would have been only a few coppers except we had none . |
| 18 | The happy outcome would have been precisely the same in either case . |
| 19 | Tim Reagan , a gaunt forty-year-old , who was a genius with trade unions as well as being an accountant and Peter Yeo 's right hand , moved swiftly through the secretarial problem , which was one of shortage of same , and seemed , as Peter Yeo observed pleasantly , to have been exactly the same difficulty any time in the last two years , to a discussion of building security , in which no one was much interested either . |
| 20 | Her face had been just the same then — interested but inscrutable — and she had taken a fiver off all of them . |
| 21 | All of that had changed in the course of five minutes in the ancillary staff 's locker room , and the sense of betrayal had been exactly the same . |
| 22 | Jessamy found herself remembering how it had been the very first time between them , it had been exactly the same , this sudden wanting . |
| 23 | The faculty argued that her treatment had been exactly the same as that of any other applicant , regardless of his or her race or colour , who sought to join the bar . |
| 24 | It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing . |
| 25 | She stared out of the upstairs living-room window , at the place where his Jaguar had been only a few moments before . |
| 26 | This was the lake that we were going to spend our time on and although these lakes had n't been fished much we did have the benefit of some information given to us by Joe Taylor who had been out a few weeks prior to us . |
| 27 | There had been quite a few successful ones , however . |
| 28 | From the look of the pile of branches , Travis had been back a few times , but he was absent still as she added her load to the mound . |
| 29 | He had been there a few weeks , suffering most of the time from frostbite after thirty hours in a dinghy in the Atlantic . |
| 30 | She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her . |