Example sentences of "have been so [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect has been so many priorities and urgent tasks to change the meaning and the effect of the concept . |
| 2 | There had been so many meetings ; 80 a day , someone had told him . |
| 3 | There had been so many secrets . |
| 4 | ‘ Our last two albums for them , ‘ Peace In Our Time ’ and ‘ No Place Like Home ’ , were stodgy affairs , and there had been so many hassles . |
| 5 | During the short time their marriage had lasted , there had been so many times when she had given in to Julius 's forceful demands , just to keep the peace . |
| 6 | He was consumed by indignation that there had been so many attempts to swindle his country in its attempts to gain arms to protect itself from the aggression of Iraq . |
| 7 | There had been so many pieces of paper ; 50 million at least , someone else had told him , generated during his eight years as President . |
| 8 | It was n't worth asking of what kind ; there had been so many beginnings . |
| 9 | But she said that they had been so many months or when everybody else had a pay rise they only had a little bit . |
| 10 | It is important to be clear then about our reasons for feeling that we had to explain why women have come so far rather than explaining why there had been so few gains . |
| 11 | I know that the new members of Council have been welcomed into our midst and it must be along time since there 've been so many changes . |
| 12 | ‘ There 've been so many times when I 've lain awake at night longing for you to kiss me , make love to me . |
| 13 | There have been so many accidents on the M-40 , police have lost count of the number . |
| 14 | The route has been described to death and there have been so many accounts of the leading objects , I am inclined to be silent till I reach some spots where fewer pens have essayed to give to the world their portraiture , allowing the sketches engraved to leave my mite of tribute alike to the noble natural architecture of the Isle of Caves and the art treasures in the Isle of Ionic Crosses . |
| 15 | There have been so many thefts from Venetian churches over recent years ( see p.16 ) that , without custodians , the college of priests will be forced to recommend keeping most Venetian church doors closed . |
| 16 | There have been so many changes in education that even teachers find it hard to keep up — so professionals as well as parents will welcome the Parents ' Information Checklist , £4.50 from the Advisory Centre for Education , 1b Aberdeen Studios , 22/24 Highbury Grove , N5 2EA . |
| 17 | ‘ He has now got a new incentive at Forest where there have been so many changes . ’ |
| 18 | There have been so many taboos surrounding some kings that it has been difficult , if not impossible , to find anyone to be successor , for the taboos lead to total social isolation of the ruler . |
| 19 | We noted the omission of any mention of meat and asked her particularly about this , as there have been so many debates among anthropologists in recent years as to the origins of hunting and meat-eating . |
| 20 | ‘ There have been so many plans for the place and everything seems to fall through , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Besides , there have been so many opportunities for growth in countries that do not require local equity sharing that they have had little incentive to try to build businesses in those countries that do . |
| 22 | Well er as I say the position of the Parish Council the fact that there have been so many objections are fully reported in the committee papers today . |
| 23 | IT SICKENS me that hit records promoting the drug Ecstasy through hidden messages in the lyrics have been allowed when there have been so many deaths from it and now the hospitalisation of Flake model Rachel Brown . |
| 24 | ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted . |
| 25 | ‘ I have been trying to get the traders out for eight years , but there have been so many obstructions . ’ |
| 26 | Rarely can there have been so many upheavals in the landscape in so short a time . |
| 27 | Despite research into some aspects of the error propagation issue in spatial data processing ( e.g. Blakemore 1984 ; Chrisman 1984 ; Drummond 1987 ; Goodchild and Dubuc 1987 ; Walsh et al. 1987 ) , Burrough ( 1986:103 ) correctly points out that ‘ It is remarkable that there have been so few studies on the whole problem of residual variation and how errors arise , or are created and propagated in geographical information processing , and what the effects of these errors might be on the results of studies made . ’ |
| 28 | Evaluation of the McClellan system is difficult because there have been so few opportunities to see it in operation . |