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 | There had been quite a few successful ones , however . |
| 27 | He had been there a few weeks , suffering most of the time from frostbite after thirty hours in a dinghy in the Atlantic . |
| 28 | She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her . |
| 29 | Erm what are the kind o obviously you 've been here a few months . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been here a few times , ’ he admitted . |