Example sentences of "have been [adv] [det] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | In fact there has been so much to amuse that I have scarcely read a book and have written but little . |
| 3 | There 'd been yet another cancelled lesson only today and Ronni was feeling even angrier and edgier than ever as , just after lunchtime , she made her way down the garden towards the villa 's private little jetty , a corner she had n't explored before , to try and calm herself with a breath of air . |
| 4 | A return to the reviled rates would presumably have been too much to take . |
| 5 | It would have been too much to hope for one capable of answering any of the questions that were beginning to raise their heads in her sleep-muffled brain . |
| 6 | The contrast between Dysart 's carefree existence and his own would have been too much to bear . |
| 7 | The ‘ next step ’ of setting up a public authority-the Commissioner for the Rights of Trade Union Members-to assist actively in enforcing such individual rights could have been too much to swallow for the unions . |
| 8 | Very often in therapeutic groups they do claim not to , but in fact er the leader does play a very dominant role er and even when the attention shifts to members of course , the fact that all the other members are watching them means that their reactions and what they say and think and do in a group would have been very much constrained by their actions and expectations o of the other members . |
| 9 | Now , now it would 've been easier for you , the , the part that you missed out which would have brought all that in to play would have been how much do you want to pay , do you wan na pay a , a small amount over a long time or a big amount over a short time and then that would 've brought that into play . |
| 10 | There had been so much to see and she 'd ached for Fernando to be beside her to show her everything . |
| 11 | There had been so much to admire in Ewan , even though he 'd been so self-centred . |
| 12 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 13 | In the Cambrian area Red Star parcels are at a premium — there have been very few delivered around the Aberystwyth area by Roberts Taxis/coaches . |
| 14 | ‘ I think lawyers have been too much looking from the law outwards rather than as a client looking at the law from the outside . |
| 15 | There 's been very little said about the actual content of the Childrens Act and I think it actually gets all Party 's support , which is , which is excellent . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's been too much talking already . |
| 17 | You see there 's been that there 's been that many flung out of jobs Sharon , there 's been that many people put out of jobs , there 's been that many people bought their houses and been put out on the streets they 've got no homes you know . |