Example sentences of "[verb] been talk " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since I left , there has been talk about my going back to Celtic , but that will never happen . ’ |
| 2 | There is sufficient pasture now for up to 3000 sheep , and there has been talk of introducing a Scottish blackface flock . |
| 3 | And there has been talk , though not yet enough action , to help people in the former Soviet Union and other ex-communist countries . |
| 4 | There has been talk of Johnston moving on , but within a minute of Wright 's goal he gave Everton and Kendall a precious equaliser . |
| 5 | She is planning a long holiday in Egypt and America and there has been talk of her working on a new ITV soap called Routes . |
| 6 | There has been talk linking Jagger and Carla , 25 , since last year . |
| 7 | For years there has been talk of building a road and railway along the shore to link Aswan with Wadi Halfa , the first town inside Sudan . |
| 8 | There has been talk of one or two members taking a trip to Llandrindod in Victorian week — Social Secretary . |
| 9 | In fact , there has been talk of it taking up to four years to give effect to this , during which time who knows how many young people will die , while the Home Office and the Home Secretary drag their feet ? |
| 10 | There has been talk of a commitment to do away with slopping out by 1994 . |
| 11 | Henderson is aware that there has been talk of Lennie being lured away but he is confident that the Boro boss will stay and see the Boro into a new era of success . |
| 12 | A hundred years ago they might have made sense , due to ignorance : like the child said , there 'd been talk of witches . |
| 13 | The liberals were equally determined to use their parliamentary power to prevent reaction : in masonic circles there seems even to have been talk of a republican dictatorship . |
| 14 | Several Scottish players said that there had been talk at the dinner about the possibility of one of the Romanians hoping to stay in Scotland . |
| 15 | There had been talk of privatisations worth $16m ; in the event the take will be half that . |
| 16 | In England there had been talk of reunion since the 1830s and some reunions had taken place . |
| 17 | There had been talk of meeting for a drink in the evening , but the talk had taken place at five in the morning as Kelly was hurriedly slipping into her clothes and now Nick seemed to have forgotten . |
| 18 | His answer , when it came , was vague : he had heard rumours , but knew nothing for certain ; there had been talk of treachery . |
| 19 | Even before the crisis there had been talk of fielding a Popular Front candidate in Oxford . |
| 20 | There had been talk of sending me to a special school , but my family were not ready to accept such an open acknowledgment of my disability , and the excuse was again made about academic standards . |
| 21 | Fabia had a soft spot for dogs , and cats too , for that matter , and there had been talk of her training to be a vet . |
| 22 | There 's been talk of Bruce leaving but it will be a greater achievement for me to establish myself as first choice with him still at the club . ’ |
| 23 | There 's been talk on the council of turning it into a swimming pool , but they ca n't afford it . |
| 24 | Swindon will be pushing for compensation 300 to 400 hundred thousand pounds … theres 's been talk of dirty deeds illegal approaches … and things like that but they 've all shaken hands … everyone is happy … |
| 25 | There 's been talk of seventeen and a half per cent being added to food , to public transport and to books and its now believed that VAT on domestic fuel , which was to have been introduced in stages may come in at the full rate in the spring . |
| 26 | There 's been talk of the United States sponsoring a joint western effort to provide fairly substantial economic assistance to the Soviet Union in return for a more active Soviet role in the Gulf . |