Example sentences of "[vb past] been a [adj] amount " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 2 | Unlike previous years , however , the significance of the Iowa contests was reduced by the fact that neither of Bush 's two challengers ( Buchanan and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke ) contested the caucus , whilst amongst the Democrats it had long been accepted that the contest would be won by Tom Harkin , one of the state 's representatives in the Senate , and so there had been a minimal amount of campaigning . |
| 3 | When Charles obtained his post at Suffolk , there had been a certain amount of pressure from both sets of parents for them to get married . |
| 4 | Even at the height of the strike movement of the 1890s there had been a certain amount of friction between workers and intelligentsia . |
| 5 | But there had been a certain amount of argument with the police and one National Socialist was arrested for obstructing the footway . |
| 6 | There had been a certain amount of bustle about it , but you could hardly have a journey — any journey — without a bit of bustle . |
| 7 | ‘ My mother felt that Suzie would be more inclined to listen to me because there had been a certain amount of friction between the two of them recently . ’ |
| 8 | Forty thousand pounds he had paid for it , a sum which now seemed laughably small , but which in those days had been a vast amount to pay for a private house , even in such a prime position . |
| 9 | Er , no that was er erm , most of , most of the blacklist had been dealt with erm it had been a fair amount of erm reorganization and er rebuilding |