Example sentences of "[verb] been [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , I think really it must 've been thrift . |
| 2 | And I 've , I 've done that and it , there 's not one thing you can point to and say there 's no one in here because it 's several things , altogether , that indicate it , it might have been there 's no car on the drive , there might 've been , there might 've been milk still out . |
| 3 | The tourist might 've been cake . |
| 4 | It would 've been cosine . |
| 5 | It would n't have mattered who , it could 've been family , friends , neighbourhood , anybody . |
| 6 | The British still tend to treat him with a faintly hostile embarrassment : as well they might , since for the past four years , his principal message has been condemnation of their duplicity in , as he sees it , backing away from promises to introduce democratic government by 1997 . |
| 7 | Unemployment has risen by nearly 1 million in the time that the hon. Gentleman has been Chancellor and Prime Minister , but still he refuses to do anything useful to stop that remorseless rise . |
| 8 | During the course of the time the right hon. Gentleman has been Chancellor and Prime Minister he is convicted by his own record and condemned by his own inaction in the face of the slump that he caused . |
| 9 | Most marked has been Sun 's reluctance to concede any ground to OSF 's Motif interface , even though many Sun users clearly prefer that graphical environment over Sun 's Open Look GUI . |
| 10 | A simple way to tell whether an item has been sun washed or chemically washed is to open the pile . |
| 11 | The length of time it has been operation will determine how much money she gets back , but it is unlikely to have made much of a profit , because endowments are designed to make money over a long period of time . |
| 12 | The Police 's long term answer has been Operation Overdrive . |
| 13 | The ethos of Soviet-style socialism has been opportunity . |
| 14 | One of the trickiest problems with a faceted classification scheme has been notation , that is to say , the symbols ( e.g. decimal numbers ) which represent the subject and mechanize its place in a shelf or catalogue array . |
| 15 | Can you recommend a strong holding , affordable styling mousse that gives control and body to difficult hair but that has been allergy tested . |
| 16 | Among the hardest hit has been Aerospace , which faces a tough time over the next two to three years . |
| 17 | Sir Jeremy has been Warden ( Chairman of the Governing Body ) of his old school , Winchester , since 1987 , and became an Honorary Fellow of New College in 1979 . |
| 18 | The main problem has been lack of support , both in attendance and especially help . |
| 19 | One source of instability , you rightly note , has been lack of competitiveness in countries like Italy , whose unit labour costs rose by 10% compared with those of other industrial countries between 1987 and August 1992 . |
| 20 | Secondly the deliveries of the equipment from the equipment suppliers who had been selected er generally fell behind the promises which they had made , so the main reason for the technical delays has been lack of equipment of the correct standard to proceed with the integration programme erm the erm the problems which beset the programme in nineteen ninety two after the German minister started questioning its future clearly had a direct bearing on that because many of the equipment suppliers , particularly those in Germany , suddenly began to think hey this programme is not going anywhere , why should we invest a lot of effort and and money into it and they slowed down so that has had a knock on effect in in terms of delaying the total programme and erm the result of all of that has been that the current development programme schedule which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 21 | The winner has been apathy and the loser democracy . |
| 22 | VPDPR has been whosn to have two possible physiological functions besides its role as a propeptide . |
| 23 | Will he confirm that in every year and for every authority recently in Greater Manchester , the amount of money that the Government have allowed them to spend on capital projects has been way behind what they have needed , with the result that there is now a backlog of repairs and maintenance ? |
| 24 | There has been speculation that the body was booby-trapped before it left Awiel , and may have been timed to explode in mid-air . |
| 25 | Lambert has been widely criticised and there has been speculation that the controversy could lead to his departure from the FT . |
| 26 | Recently there has been speculation that the generally disappointing effects of hypotensive drug therapy in mildly hypertensive subjects may result from the deleterious metabolic side-effects of the agents themselves Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial Research Group ( 1982 ) . |
| 27 | There has been speculation among local climbers that the individuals responsible for the chipping of Hareless Heart are also to blame on this occasion ; a theory backed up by the likelihood that the vandals had some level of climbing expertise . |
| 28 | There has been speculation that Sun will not build another generation of desktop workstations , but will instead design and license . |
| 29 | There has been speculation that a Carrier Battle Group of the Royal Navy would be sent to the Red Sea to relieve an American unit for redeployment to the Gulf ; and that this would be based on HMS Invincible . |
| 30 | Since US food giant Philip Morris bought Jacobs Suchard in 1990 , ostensibly for its coffee business , there has been speculation that Cadbury might bid for the Suchard chocolate business . |