Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [det] " in BNC.

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31 He also wanted to emphasize in the appraisal two issues he had already brought to the attention of staff : assessment of pupils — with which there had already been some changes — and language across the curriculum , which he felt required a more positive policy .
32 There had already been some friction with the head of the Catholic Church in Spain , Cardinal Gomá , and with General Queipo de Llano ; the monarchists disliked the Falange , as did many military men ; and some Falangists harboured resentment over the 1937 unification of parties .
33 I have chosen Vaughan because there has already been some analysis of deixis in his poetry — notably by Roger Sell in his article " The unstable discourse of Henry Vaughan " ( 1987 ) .
34 Indeed , there has already been some degree of rationalisation of SROs .
35 Although still in its infancy , there have already been several approaches to case-mix accounting .
36 There 've already been several tailbacks — the longest stretched for 8 miles .
37 For a long time after independence , English was the language of the educated élite , just as it had largely been that of the colonial administration .
38 Oh just just well it would just been all the ones from around that district kind of way .
39 It 's just been such an awful couple of days . ’
40 It 's just been such , it 's obviously been a thing that affected the whole community
41 The white hat , I wondered , had that just been another trick of my imagination ?
42 Previously they 'd just been another name in the Gig Guide or sharing the billing on a Cud poster .
43 and it 's just been another seven years you 've been able to work
44 Investigations conducted among more recent groups of émigrés suffer from the fact that such groups have been disproportionately Jewish ; there has nevertheless been some support for the view that nationality is not a ‘ primordial ’ attachment and that its political importance is likely to depend on situational factors such as the degree of competition for employment opportunities .
45 There had nevertheless been some significant overproduction against individual country quotas , apparently mainly by Iran ( an estimated 3,400,000 bpd against a quota of 3,184,000 ) and Kuwait ( whose 812,000 bpd quota reflected artificially low output levels in the aftermath of the destruction of production facilities in the Gulf War ) .
46 OK , so the Prince and Princess of Wales may have separated , house prices might have plummeted and Luton Town have been relegated — but there have still been some fantastic technological and social advances in the past 12 months .
47 In Picasso 's Horta work there had still been some reference to the earlier , simpler and more rational forms derived from tribal art , but in the paintings done on his return to Paris this aspect is completely abandoned , and in the figure work , the approach becomes once again less rational and more empirical .
48 There has possibly been some exaggeration in this matter of concentration on the horse .
49 However , there has possibly been some increase in the number of adult males wintering .
50 In the second paragraph he said : ’ During our discussions I accepted that there had possibly been some scope for misunderstanding .
51 There has always been much speculation about the site of this region , guesses including East Africa , Abyssinia , Arabia , Spain , Armenia and Peru .
52 But life had not always been that way with Moby .
53 The reason I cover my head is difficult to explain , because it 's always been that way .
54 ‘ She has always been that way , ever since she was a little girl , ’ says another of those close to her , Kylie 's great aunt , Mrs Thomas Riddiford .
55 ‘ It 's always been that — I 've known it all my life — you 've never forgiven me for being a girl — that 's why you love Bri and you do n't love me — you wanted a boy — you always wanted a boy and all you got was a girl — all you got was me ! ’
56 There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other .
57 ‘ My theory has always been that working practices and the way that careers are structured are not really compatible with having a family as well .
58 But it 's always been that way .
59 It had n't always been that way .
60 I I 've always been that way inclined , I mean my dad was er he he was a miner , he was a lovely dad , he was lovely man .
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