Example sentences of "[been] [det] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nastily , she said , and he had never been that before . |
| 2 | We had erm no we we actually had done that we have given questionnaires out as programmes we actually asked people to I mean it 'll be interest to see how many people fill it in this evening but there is a built in resistance by some people to actually fill in any sort of questionnaire er and in the past when we 've actually done that I think the response 's has n't been that that brilliant . |
| 3 | However , until very recently the accepted wisdom ( CRC , 1977a ) has been that only manufacturing jobs can provide the sort of economic basis needed for sustained job provision , and that neither hill farming or forestry , as shown in Table 5.10 , or service employment and tourism could provide a long-term solution to rural employment problems . |
| 4 | It must be confessed that it is really difficult to pinpoint the precise locations of these ancient workings , which , at that time may have been little else than shallow holes on the outcrops . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the saving of water this system would have produced as compared with normal lockage would have been little more than 50 per cent , a benefit that would hardly justify the installation of the lift if water saving was the main object . |
| 6 | There had been little enough to choose between the two killings , yet all the difference in the world between the fates of those responsible : the one retired with honours , the other shot by firing squad at the age of twenty-eight . |
| 7 | Finally , I am sure that you will want me to thank the staff of the Council for their valuable work in what has been another very busy and challenging year . |
| 8 | There may well have been some particularly sensitive elements in what you have thought about . |
| 9 | The occasional and unfortunate accidents have been due to inadequate safety procedures , not to lack of understanding of the basic nuclear processes ; had there been some previously unknown nuclear process taking place at room temperature in solid materials and that had been somehow overlooked , then it is likely that we would have discovered this long ago in some reactor . |
| 10 | There have been some rather unrealistic valuations being put on businesses . |
| 11 | There have been some most tempting glimpses of it when you have become excited about a design or angry with yourself for a failure to meet your own high standards . ’ |
| 12 | This is a peculiarly steep region , so much so in fact that the snow finds it more than usually difficult to stay where it has fallen ; there have been some sadly famous avalanches near Luz , the hamlets of Chéze and Saligos which you pass as you come in from the north both having been smothered and destroyed in their time . |
| 13 | A hook solved the initial problem , then a long , unprotected traverse ( great fun seconding ! ) led to more blank wall and what must have been some truly desperate leading . |
| 14 | ‘ There have been some quite strong rumours flying around Manchester that the band are about to split up … ’ |
| 15 | Then you have the prosecution barrister and there as you know there has been some quite disgraceful behaviour by prosecution barristers , and then the defence council as well . |
| 16 | Not so , the managing director knew that Jefferson was knocking off one of the other director 's wives , but much worse than that there had been some really dirty work going on with Martinez . |
| 17 | There has recently been some highly critical re-assessment of the claims initially made by ape language experimenters on behalf of their subjects . |
| 18 | Having said all that , there have been some very nice dogs bred in Australia , not only achieving high show placements , but also major obedience awards . |
| 19 | There have also been some very encouraging noises from the Pipe stable , which has resulted in a major gamble from 14–1 to 4 's over the last couple of weeks . |
| 20 | There have been some very diverse schemes , including a wine company that after five years would offer investors a taste of the booty . |
| 21 | The cultural specialization which is also present , with varying degrees of difficulty , in these especially physical forms is usually more of a problem in at least some music , where there have been some very radical divergences in systems and in instruments . |
| 22 | There had been some very successful case-managed projects- the first of which was the Kent community care projects The evaluative work of David Challis and Bledyyn Davies shows that case management with devolved budgets , giving field workers much more responsibility to over resources can be very , very successful on almost every criterion . |
| 23 | The mile-deep canyon itself can not have started more than 10 million years ago , so here too there must have been some very rapid erosion at some time . |
| 24 | The last two releases in the Kings Quest series received a fairly mixed reception , and since the heady days when Sierra WERE GRAPHIC ADVENTURES there have been some very strong releases from the likes of Lucasfilms ( Loom , Secret of Monkey Island I and II , Indiana Jones ) , Westwood ( Legend of Kyrandia ) , and even some of the Role Playing Games from Origin ( Ultima VII and Ultima Underworlds ) and Sir Tech ( Crusaders of the Dark Savant ) . |
| 25 | Whether the Government are Labour or Conservative , the inspector ought to have the right to comment , on , for instance , funding and on what is currently going on in the Prime Minister 's county of Cambridgeshire , where there have been some very severe reductions . |
| 26 | THERE must have been some very unhappy sports-writers at the RFK Stadium in Washington on Sunday night . |
| 27 | Yeah well I mean t it 's probably based on real stuff because there ha there had been some very blarey results where people taken on trust and then these guys all the access and all the money coming in these vulnerable people . |
| 28 | Two hundred interviews per hour , equals one hundred interview sheets there 's been some very good cases of sexual harassment lately and |
| 29 | There has been some very unfortunate suicides , |
| 30 | there 's been some very good compliments flying round this place as far as the service is , the meals are prepared |