Example sentences of "[verb] been [det] [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But that noise need n't have been a retch — could have been all sorts of things . ’ |
| 2 | In the northern Weald , some of these men seem to have come from large Kentish estates round Tonbridge rather than from the Sussex coast ; there must have been several centuries of discussion before Wealden boundaries were finally sorted out . |
| 3 | He had been all kinds of fool . |
| 4 | was but , what you expecting that , obviously is n't called for a lot of night life , otherwise it would be there , there 's been discotheque , they 've been all sorts of things , but they 've closed down because they have n't made enough money |
| 5 | In the subsequent experience of the Church in exercising this ministry there have been many instances of failure , partial , delayed and temporary healing , reminding us that we live with the tension of the ‘ now ’ and the ‘ not yet ’ of the Kingdom . |
| 6 | There have been many studies of selection by molluscs on cyanogenic and acyanogenic morphs of white clover under laboratory or other controlled conditions . |
| 7 | Mr Barber said : ‘ In the East Anglian Customs and Excise region there have been no arrests in relation to these imports but there have been some seizures of alcohol at boot sales in Norfolk and Suffolk . ’ |
| 8 | It 's too early to talk of a rebirth of Welsh forward play but at least , in victory over Ireland and defeat by France , there have been some stirrings of life . |
| 9 | There have been few studies of adults with cystic fibrosis with respect to employment , education , housing , insurance , and other features of lifestyle , and most such studies have been based on patients attending large clinics , who may be unrepresentative of the total population with the disease . |
| 10 | Although there have been few studies of public opinion and corporate crime ( Cullen et al. 1982 ; Newman 1957 ; Reed and Reed 1975 ; Rossi et al. 1974 ; Schrager and Short 1980 ; Sinden 1980 ; Wolfgang 1980 ) , they do provide a window on what can best be described as ‘ collective ignorance ’ . |
| 11 | There have been few studies of office automation applications , but projections about specific skill requirements are extremely difficult to make at present because it is as yet quite unclear how office automation will be used . |
| 12 | There have been few examples of trade mark infringement in the world of computers as most counterfeiters and software pirates have used different names or marks ; for example , copies of the Apple computer imported into Australia were called the " Wombat " . |
| 13 | There have been several instances of polytechnic or college academic boards adopting a ‘ modular policy ’ which requires specified courses , over time , to move into a common framework of delivery ( usually achieved administratively by common timetabling and academically by convergence of course titles and examination arrangements ) . |
| 14 | There have been several cases of two-seaters being overstressed by pilots pulling back hard to recover from steep dives after spin recoveries . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , there have been several studies of patients who cut themselves which are very informative for the clinician ( Clendenin and Murphy 1971 ; Rosenthal et al. 1972 ; Simpson 1975 ) . |
| 16 | In linguistics , especially in the English-speaking world between the 1930s and 1960s , there have been several schools of thought which believe that context — this knowledge of the world outside language which we use to interpret it — should be ruled out of language analysis as far as possible . |
| 17 | In recent years , there have been several examples of governments excluding or controlling television cameras in order to control the ‘ flow of information ’ and so minimize the political impact of the medium . |
| 18 | There 's been all sorts of problems with regard to paying cleaner 's wages , because I become her employer , |