Example sentences of "been [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | suggested in Ex parte Benson ( No. 2 ) , The Times , 21 November 1988 , the decision in Handscomb had been that detention for a period equivalent to a determinate sentence of 27 years exceeded by such a wide margin any determinate sentence passed in recent years for the offence of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility , and was thus in the absence of reasons irrational , I would not disagree . |
| 2 | I suppose some people might have but I think I did n't really want to face up to the fact that he might have been that man on the beach . ’ |
| 3 | There always had been that part of him , rarely seen , that she did n't understand . |
| 4 | She had helped to pick up all the things spilt from the bag , but there had been that look in her eye just before — a familiar look , contempt , indifferently hidden . |
| 5 | One of the sad side-effects of industrial action during the early years of the implementation of ISS has been that work on improving the teacher-parent partnership has been more neglected by teachers than anyone initially expected . |
| 6 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It might have been that way for a while , Scum argued , but after a couple of weeks the Boroughs shitkickers moved in , and the game was up . |
| 9 | But life had not always been that way with Moby . |
| 10 | It may have been that while in Japan he found the taste of humble pie just a little too much to stomach . |
| 11 | I think the problem is that this one point seven billion was er an actuarial assessment by Watsons i it may never have been that amount of money . |
| 12 | Suspicions have sometimes been voiced that , whenever government has supported civic education , the reason has been that learning of this kind has been interpreted as supportive of a respectful attitude . |
| 13 | One of the more important consequences of this action — a consequence , incidentally , that we are still feeling the effects of — has been that demand for UK goods has been reduced not only in the UK but also in the other major industrialised oil importing nations . |
| 14 | Britain had exercised tight control over the entry of aliens for as long as anyone could remember and , anyway , there had been little contact between Germany and Britain for at least nine months . |
| 15 | There has been little escape from St Valentinism on television , with even two of the dreaded soap operas niftily timing weddings for around now . |
| 16 | What happens to the grief reaction when there has been little warning of the impending death , or for various reasons , where there has been no opportunity to be involved in the preparation process ? |
| 17 | There has been little development at Bootle and on the Wirral site . |
| 18 | There was an emphasis on the generation of female employment as well as on the general need for diversification but there had been little development by the outbreak of war . |
| 19 | There has been little development in style since the 1920s though the range of materials has increased . |
| 20 | In previous elections there has been little change in the parties ' support between the final Sunday of the campaign and polling day . |
| 21 | But most of the changes that did occur took place over 1950–70 ; since the latter year there appears to have been little change in the relative positions of the different republics and provinces in social product per head . |
| 22 | He had been discharged but a year later there had been little change in his weight . |
| 23 | There has been little change in the combined market share of the six national brewers owning more than 2,000 pubs since February 1989 . |
| 24 | According to the Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys , there has been little change in breast-feeding patterns in the last decade . |
| 25 | There has been little support from independent black defence organizations and authentic community groups whose actions go far beyond the narrow categories in which antiracism can operate . |
| 26 | At this age , there has been little hassle from the police : only an awareness that crime scars their neighbourhood . |
| 27 | For decades , there has been little choice within the UK credit within the UK credit insurance market . |
| 28 | Unlike the issue of sterling there would seem to have been little choice in the line of action to be followed . |
| 29 | The party managers continued to bewail the organizational weakness of Coalition Liberalism , but there had been little opportunity for organizational collaboration ; one of the few joint ventures , a magazine called Popular View , was abandoned in 1921 because of the impossibility of producing a lively magazine out of continuous compromise . |
| 30 | Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry . |