Example sentences of "'s been [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He 's been all sweetness and light , promised nothing and done ditto . ’
2 Go on , ask her where she 's been all afternoon , dressed up like a tart and missing for bloody hours .
3 It 's been all trouble since you stopped . ’
4 I do n't I mean I know I I 'm very busy , I 've got stuff that I should have done , months and months ago , that I have n't got round to doing yet , cos there 's been all sort of interruptions .
5 Jenny gave me a house-warming present of a radio so I 've been able to listen to music while I write — and it 's been such fun !
6 Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place .
7 It 's been that way ever since I can remember .
8 For as long as I can remember it 's been that way . ’
9 Here in Drearton ward , Harrow West constituency , there 's been little sign of the other parties .
10 Over the autumn there 's been much discussion on Scottish winter grades .
11 ‘ Do n't suppose it 's been much help . ’
12 There 's been much debate recently about whether the Tories are going to privatise the Health Service in the future .
13 ‘ There 's been more water used on this floor than we 've had to wash ourselves and our clothes in since we left Liverpool ! ’
14 ‘ There 's been more bloodshed in the Tower .
15 But by looking at this document here , it would appear there 's been more violence committed there against lawful pickets and yet that does n't make the national press .
16 This is very important and I should imagine there 's been more trouble , probably , with people representing the authority and being rather officious , and this has got no one anywhere .
17 It 's been another year of achievement for the society the panto Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves was a great success and gave a great start to the year .
18 It 's been another day of unwanted exposure for the Duchess of York with yet more holiday snaps emblazoned across the tabloids .
19 But Nigel took the cloak home with him and it 's been another string to his bow ever since .
20 ‘ I hear there 's been another woman killed not far from where Angy lived .
21 So that 's been another step forward I think , in the whole progression , of the Fire Service .
22 There 's been another death in the Tower , has n't there ? ’
23 There 's been another game , and you know it .
24 " It looks as if there 's been another murder on the moor . "
25 ‘ Did you know , ’ said Melissa when Eleanor at last became quiet , ‘ that there 's been another murder ? ’
26 ‘ And there 's been another visitor since you left . ’
27 There 's been another arson attack on a local school , the second to be targetted in two days .
28 In fact erm , there 's been less funding per head in Wiltshire , than many other authorities in the country .
29 It might n't have been the class but there 's been some schoolin' there an' some refinement .
30 There 's been some mistake . "
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