Example sentences of "has been [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has only ever been let in the summer , and no one has been here yet this year except the people last month , folk from Cornwall , I think . |
| 2 | Stephen has been away so much , and is so obsessed with building another hotel , we eat , sleep and drink it . ’ |
| 3 | Coming from Russia , where freedom of the press has been not so much unknown as uncomprehended since long before the Revolution , he is shocked to discover that a free press disseminated all kinds of false , partial and invented information and that journalists contradict themselves from one day to the next without shame and without apology . |
| 4 | Since they published the ’ Sanitary Protection Scandal ’ ( a report on the production of sanitary towels , tampons and ’ disposable ’ nappies and their health and environmental implications ) , the level of response has been almost too much for WEN 's small City Road office . |
| 5 | However , while the former has been given considerable attention by geographers ( summarized by Openshaw et al. 1989 ) there has been relatively little such work in the UK on the disposal of non-nuclear wastes . |
| 6 | Colin MacLeod , chairman and owner of Nottinghamshire-based Caledonian Mining , which competed against the consortium for the pit , said : ‘ There has been far too much in the press about the poor miners being done and that we were the big bad boys coming up to take over . |
| 7 | And my experience has been that virtually all rape cases have been the forcible interference with a woman . |
| 8 | The effect of restricting the offence to reckless driving , a restriction which was enacted in 1977 ( previously it had included dangerous driving , a less demanding standard ) , has been that relatively few convictions for this offence are obtained . |