Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [det] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The running of multiple sessions has been another means of saving which , though not always a problem , has led to truncated teaching sessions , late-coming and absenteeism on the part of teachers and pupils . |
| 2 | There has been fewer people than expected attending conferences , and fewer take-ups for free advice . |
| 3 | Listen , if there 'd been any fruit around I 'd have eaten it . |
| 4 | Clive Lloyd is one of the best-loved cricketers ever to walk on to a field , but after the relentless domination of his four-man pace attack there must have been many people who permitted themselves a smile at the news . |
| 5 | When the Renault RSO1 1500 cc turbo-charged car failed on lap 17 of the 1977 British Grand Prix at Silverstone , there must have been many people who did not see a future for this power-booster , particularly as it was the turbo-charger that caused the car 's withdrawal from the race . |
| 6 | The dental remains indicate little more than a dependence on a hard-fruit diet , and there may have been several species with this inclination . |
| 7 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
| 8 | There may have been some species which were attached to floating seaweed . |
| 9 | You do realize though that there must have been some people who were saddened by the fact you did n't continue your pop career ? |
| 10 | Research commissioned by the Department of Education and Science indicated that the average loss of benefits among students who actually claimed them — and they were a minority — would have been some £327 in the past academic year . |
| 11 | Provisions to undertake these remits have been substantial but we estimate that without them our costs in 1992–93 would have been some £25 million higher . |
| 12 | ‘ You will be Church of England , ’ said Willie Hamilton , as though Paul had been another species . |
| 13 | Mick is convinced that if there had been more staff available the attack might never have happened . |
| 14 | There have been many aircraft crashes , not at Crowfield , but everywhere , but do n't worry about that you have to remember that there have been more safe landings than crashes . |
| 15 | Do you Would there have been many people in that school at the time . |
| 16 | May have been , well have been many people who suffered at his hands . |
| 17 | If you 've read Practical PC from issue 1 , you will know that there have been more graphics standards since 1981 than you can shake a stick at , culminating in today 's VGA standard as the required minimum in a ‘ bog standard ’ machine . |