Example sentences of "been [adv] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been dead some time . ’ |
| 2 | She was cold , she had been dead some time . |
| 3 | To date , however , there has been rather little evidence on the means of transmission of difficulties . |
| 4 | In much of Western Europe a predominant characteristic has been trade union pluralism ( and sometimes reluctance to engage in continuous relationships with employers ) promoted by ideological , philosophical and religious differences , although in recent years there has been rather less emphasis upon the importance of religious affinity . |
| 5 | Yet there has been remarkably little research activity in this area . |
| 6 | The organisations concerned have asked that details of the comments received be mad public , criticising the level of secrecy surrounding the exercise , but to date , the UKCC 's response , from registrar Colin Ralph , has been only that publication of the consultation report is ‘ possible ’ . |
| 7 | Having said that I mean I think there there has been obviously some concern about some security measures , other than terrorist or so called terrorist threats in relation to staff personal security in the building which is why we 've actually moved towards more one stop per section area so there are limits to where the public are actually free to move around the building . |
| 8 | They have been together all day . ’ |
| 9 | They had been together all morning , but little had been said . |
| 10 | World Bank officials have no pat answers for why there has been so little trickle-down in Thailand . |
| 11 | Because there has been so little change in British industrial and fiscal policies in a changing world , the emerging nations are overtaking us , gaining access to our markets at home and abroad . |
| 12 | Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care , it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date . |
| 13 | Part of the reason there has been so little bloodshed is that nobody yet is certain who killed Mr Gandhi or why . |
| 14 | WHY HAS THERE BEEN SO LITTLE COMMUNITY BENEFIT ? |
| 15 | To my mum , you know she 's passed , you 're daft , but there 'd have been so much hassle for me to get there ! |
| 16 | Indeed , it is precisely because there has been approximately equal progress on both sides that there has been so much progress in the level of sophistication of design . |
| 17 | ‘ There has been so much despair among the lot of us that seeing the party back in government again seemed so remote . |
| 18 | There has been so much mourning to do . |
| 19 | This brain drain' must have been viewed by the authorities as acute , otherwise there would not have been so much coverage of the issue in the media . |
| 20 | And there had been so much coverage , a retrial would have been impossible . |
| 21 | It is not perhaps since Romanticism that there has been so much discussion , and underlying uncertainty , about the market of literature , and it is no accident that recent years have seen an expansion of the sociology of literature as an academic discipline , alongside increased research into reading habits , the best-seller and how to write it , and the levels of writing that appeal to different strata of the public . |
| 22 | Never before has there been so much concern with health or so much fear about health . |
| 23 | Her fine words had been so much whistling in the dark . |
| 24 | My few months of married life with Helen had been so much lotus eating . |
| 25 | Setting off for home on the bus has never been so much fun for the children of Grange Junior School in Swindon . |
| 26 | There may have been so much conflict indoors that you had to construct your shelter elsewhere . |
| 27 | However , there has been so much midweek domestic football this season that all but the most committed supporters — 12,178 of them in Glasgow , 3,546 in Perth — turned their backs on Tuesday night 's matches . |
| 28 | There had been so much misfortune that to endure any more would be as a dumb beast might endure it ; and what would become of Dinah and the child ? |
| 29 | THERE has not been so much breast-beating in the cinema since Bernadette . |
| 30 | But what , I think we do need to have is quite a a a a a we 've not a no solution body who would agree with me , er you know , some of the things that have gone on within the er er agricultural industry in terms of gang masters , which is if if surely if if if we had been more clearly defined if would enforce probably the whole industry into disrepute , and I feel that we do need a a a a a a a framework , with a with a supply into Europe , because in the end we will not just be competing against other European countries we will be competing against the third world and some producers that are producing very different situations , so , I I think er , and and I 'm concerned that it is the , it is that delegation , and it is the interpretation that our own government will put on it , because there 's been so much mythology surrounding Europe . |