Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [been] [adv] [det] [noun] " 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 | David 's been away all week ? |
| 3 | Goodbye and good riddance to the propaganda parade Television coverage of the election campaign has been so much oil on shallow water . |
| 4 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 5 | Hello folks , my boss has been away this morning so I 've been busy scanning a few leeds picies and saving them as gif files . |
| 6 | It would be misleading to corrall all the donated works into feminist questioning of gendered identity ; one of the freedoms women have won for themselves over the last 20 years has been precisely those freedoms from conventional definition by gender . |
| 7 | Similarly it was in a private letter that a Cornish mine agent wrote in 1793 : The common tinners continue to be very refractory and insolent : many of them refuse to work , and have not gone underground for three weeks past — They have no cause for it for their wages have been rather too high lately than otherwise ; the consequence has been too much brandy drinking and other bad practices . |
| 8 | erm The Health Service has been very much male-orientated . |
| 9 | The book has been out several months , of course , now . |
| 10 | ‘ Potter 's been here this morning ? ’ |