Example sentences of "[adv] been [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd agree — While it 's great to see 2 away wins up , we have n't beaten any of the ‘ classy ’ teams yet … our wins have mostly been over the lower teams … which brings us to Wimbledon this week . |
| 2 | While on furlough in England my thoughts had naturally been on the new tasks ahead . |
| 3 | financial services have long been among the heaviest users of search ; Michael Brookes at Nomura referred to 20 major assignments in less than three years with many more slightly lower-level searches . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the resolution might still have won a majority had it not been for the stolen goods in the outhouse . |
| 5 | He would have been handsome had it not been for the close-set eyes and the petulant cast to his mouth . |
| 6 | ‘ If it had not been for the Liberal Democrats , the government would have lost . ’ |
| 7 | There then followed a decline , and the old arts would have been lost , had it not been for the Buddhist monks who kept the arts alive in their mountain refuges . |
| 8 | This is a good example of a local commemoration which almost slipped through the net , had it not been for the sleuthing abilities of north east enthusiast David Thompson . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've not been to the new grounds at Walsall and Scunthorpe , Maidstone 's ground , or covered a League match at Barnet . |
| 10 | ‘ Did you come here , ’ mumbled Dottie , very close , ‘ to ask me fatuous questions the police have already been through a hundred times , or for other reasons ? ’ |
| 11 | I have just been on an inter-personal skills workshop so I knew what to do . |
| 12 | His real interest had always been in the scientific aspects of his work . |
| 13 | With a sense of shock Harriet realised that in the last hours Paula had become more of a stranger to her than she had ever been during the twenty years she had believed her dead . |
| 14 | Moreover , mystical movements are no more prevalent in the West than they have ever been from the Dionysian rites to the temple of Aimee McPherson . |
| 15 | They have also been among the major victims of the failure of the government 's inner city policies . |
| 16 | Similarly , after the implementation of the allowances , the Cooperative Women 's Guild , an organisation of working-class women within the Cooperative Movement which had originally been among the strongest supporters of the campaign for family allowances ( Lewis , 1980 ) , defeated a resolution calling for an increase in the amount of the allowance at their annual Congress in 1951 ( Gaffin and Thoms , 1983 , p. 161 ) . |
| 17 | People who 've never even been within a thousand miles of Koraloona have heard of Mollie Green 's place . ’ |
| 18 | what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now |
| 19 | Has n't been for a few years . |
| 20 | If it had n't been for the canter Nails would not have been terribly keen for another lesson , but the canter had given him dreams above his station . |
| 21 | ‘ If it had n't been for the native Africans in the community who rallied round , looked after my wife and kept leaving food parcels outside the door we would have been sunk . |
| 22 | ‘ There was a transitional moment of delicious uneasiness and then — instantaneously — the long inhibition was over , the dry desert lay behind , I was off once more into the land of longing , my heart at once broken and exalted as it had never been since the old days at Bookham . ’ |
| 23 | And , and the people sitting in Shanghai , who have never been in the rural areas which is |
| 24 | ‘ I 've never been inside the local police station , ’ said Ethel . |