Example sentences of "[verb] been [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You could 've been a real trendsetter , you could 've put Ghostbuster stripes on it
2 In particular Donal Lunny 's assured production allows for moments of rain-washed clarity in what could 've been a groggy hotchpotch .
3 Er where would with er would 've been a front room that was another house .
4 There must 've been a little bit of snow
5 Would that 've been a full time then or would she have done other
6 Yeah , but if they 'd have , if they 'd have said look , we 're onto erm a job now which would 've been a big job and it looks like it finishing up in Yorkshire , finishing up in Lancashire , be ready if we give a call out .
7 You 'd 've been alright if it 'd 've been a mass murderer slept for years .
8 ‘ It would 've been a bad time for t'road between t'two farms ti be blocked wi' snow . ’
9 Er it , it does seem to me it would 've been an enormous problem for the Chinese Communist Party had absolute egalitarianism worked .
10 I do n't know if that would 've been the right thing to do there .
11 There have been important studies of aspects of modern cities , but in my view there has been no recent study of a significant part of a great industrial city considered as a whole .
12 But it can not be accepted that every time there is a tragedy in the Health Service , where there has been no professional neglect , that instantly there should be compensation .
13 However , as there has been no simultaneous monitoring of incidence , it is extremely difficult to determine the effects of these expensive actions to human health and wellbeing .
14 Rosenthal , who is keen to move back to the continent , has also been touted in France although as yet there has been no definite interest .
15 Dr Marsh said : ‘ There has been no radical change to our financial situation since the Annual General Meeting in August , apart from the income that has been generated through the gates .
16 There has been no general attempt to rewrite the history of the period from a perspective based on changes in consumption and material culture ( though see Mukerji 1983 ) , but two examples may be suggestive , the first derived from historians and the second from studies of material culture .
17 There has been no political pressure from the Foreign Office or elsewhere to prevent the exhibition .
18 there has been no adverse change in the financial position or prospects of the Business ;
19 What is more , there has been no other deposit quite like it either before or since , except perhaps some Miocene chalks which themselves are remarkably widespread : in the western approaches to the English Channel , in Malta , Cyprus and the Middle East and all the way to New Zealand .
20 There has been no other business items and the same for there 's been no questions either .
21 As yet there has been no other attempt to describe so vividly in dance the wish of any character , but in this case a puppet , to escape from prison .
22 There has been no other attempt that I know of to theorise dance and its particular appeal for girls .
23 But this has been no ordinary tour for England , beaten 3–0 in the Indian Test series and consistently outplayed on the pitches of the sub-continent .
24 A Sri Lankan total of 408 for eight , and a first-innings deficit so far of 28 , would not normally be a cause for satisfaction , but this has been no ordinary tour for England , beaten 3-0 in the Indian Test series and consistently outplayed on the pitches of the sub-continent .
25 There should be approximate equivalence of numbers so long as there has been no preferential loss of either jaws or teeth , and the expected percentage values should be in the region of 100 per cent .
26 For all these species , therefore , it is assumed that there has been no preferential loss of jaws or teeth and that the numbers would be equivalent except for sampling errors .
27 Up to now , there has been no good explanation for why the observed value should by so small .
28 It was done by Sadlers Wells in the late forties , but there has been no new production until this recent one in the opera .
29 Fletcher ( 1990 ) has argued for the extension of cervical screening after the age of 65 years but as yet there has been no similar argument for breast cancer screening .
30 There has been no similar move in the British parties , although Conservative party conferences have always had a high proportion of women delegates .
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