Example sentences of "[been] [noun] " in BNC.

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61 If the body had turned out to be Stavanger 's it would have been progress in the case , though we 'd have been no nearer knowing where he had been killed , or who had killed him .
62 There has been progress in design , but no progress in accomplishment , specifically because there has been equal progress in design on both sides of the arms race .
63 If one looks at the matter in terms of the number of Directives related to trade and competition issued by the Commission , then undoubtedly there is seen to have been progress .
64 In the past few years , however , there has been progress in the systematic analysis of qualitative data using a variety of specially written computer programs .
65 ‘ We have been progress of the Great Britain Education Bill with a view to ensuring that , as far as possible , parents of children with special educational needs in Northern Ireland enjoy the same rights as those in England and Wales . ’
66 There had also been progress in compiling the common list of exportable products , which had grown from 312 items in 1987 to more than 700 .
67 Erm , there 's also been progress made on , erm , army redundancies .
68 People with members of their family who are or have been alcoholic may , very understandably , be too scared of ‘ hitting the bottle ’ themselves to allow even a temporary licence in that area .
69 There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations .
70 The point was long in doubt , and there may have been reasons for thinking that it might not be appropriate to extend the obligation to measures adopted before a directive existed .
71 But there have been reasons . ’
72 It was also to assimilate the various discontents and disaffections into the one comprehensive sense of outrage , and further to inflame opinion so that what had already been enthusiasm , to the point of violence , for reform , now became passion .
73 None of these people should ever have been prisoners of conscience .
74 We had all been prisoners long enough to know that you must allow people to be unbalanced if they felt like it .
75 In their personal lives there had been parallels that had drawn them close and formed a bond between them ; not least the loss of both their wives some ten years back .
76 But although there is immunocytochemical evidence for NO synthase in hippocampal interneurons , there has been difficulty in obtaining evidence for its expression in pyramidal or granule cells .
77 A solicitor may not accept instructions in a matter in which to his knowledge another solicitor has been retained without the consent of that other solicitor , nor should a solicitor instructed in a particular matter communicate directly with anyone who has retained a solicitor on the other side , though a direct approach may be justified if there has been difficulty in making contact with that solicitor .
78 So far no case has reached the reports where there has been difficulty because of the death , retirement or other incapacity of an expert after appointment .
79 It says there has been difficulty in convincing both presbyteries and congregations of the need for financial planning for the future .
80 His three consecutive victims , incidentally , had been M. J. K. Smith , Peter Walker and Fred Trueman .
81 Recent lecturers have been M. Quack , A. Pines , J.W. White , and A.H .
82 Within these figures there have been peaks as high as 51,000 , necessitating the short-term use of military camps to contain the new army of prisoners .
83 The area around was mined , and as one of the bodies was cut down it exploded , having been booby trapped , and severely wounded a British officer .
84 He says that until now the company 's marketing drive has ‘ not been Telepoint led ’ , and instead pitched at selling the handsets as ‘ a quality cordless phone ’ .
85 In fact the commonest cause of death on the hill in the last three years in the Lake District has been heart attacks .
86 Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that .
87 Many of these have also been authorities with substantial areas of inner-urban deprivation within their boundaries .
88 ‘ There have been disappearances like this before . ’
89 Taskopruzade quotes from his father these words of Hocazade 's : " At the time when I was at the Sultan medrese in Bursa I was thirty-three years old and loved nothing save Taskopruzade goes on to say that Hocazade used to take more pride in having taught at the Sultan medrese than in having been kazasker or Mehmed II's Hoca .
90 The most important exponent of this view has been Michel Foucault ( 1977 ) .
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