Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1968–70 there have been more strikes than in the fifties and sixties , and more of them have been unofficial . |
| 2 | Since the EMS became operational there have been ten realignments of parities . |
| 3 | Er sure there have been some improvements in the materials that we use . |
| 4 | He said that from 1991–1992 there were only five times when intensive care patients had to be transferred to other hospitals in the region , but in April and May this year alone there had been five cases . |
| 5 | In the last few days alone there have been probing books about Mrs Thatcher and Winston Churchill which told us a great deal about the murky depths of the authors . |
| 6 | 8–12 There have been extensive improvements going on in Jura during the last two years . |
| 7 | The Zoo lay under a bitter stormy sky , the bars of the cages seeming even more black against it than they were and the leafless trees more bleak There had been thick snow the previous week , the final throes of winter , and then it had thawed leaving dampness and mud everywhere . |
| 8 | In his judgement , the Lord Chancellor said , ‘ I am seldom called upon to decide in a case in which I felt so strongly that on one side or the other there had been abominable wickedness . ’ |
| 9 | Later Selene joined in with Silent Long Have Been Those Numbers . |
| 10 | As you will be aware there has been extensive discussions with NALGO in connection with the arrangements for the necessary Council Tax introduction . |