Example sentences of "[been] [det] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our experience has been that to create a new expression of the body of Christ has been to create a new possibility of conversion for many such people . |
| 2 | The most comprehensive research has been that carried out by Dingwall , Eekelaar and Murray ( 1983 ) , based on participant observation in social services departments , NHS child health services and casualty departments , and juvenile courts . |
| 3 | The eighteenth century had been marked by keen intellectual enquiry and , among the educated class , some decline in devotion to revealed religion ; but at last leave-taking there had been little to disturb the old familiar ways ; the sense of continuity between life and death , between this world and the next , was carefully preserved . |
| 4 | Does the Secretary of State agree that until now , there has been little to encourage the new democracies of central and eastern Europe to change their minds about the EC being a rich man 's club ? |
| 5 | Well er , she said they had this This is Your Life on and Neil was in the room in the lounge like and he 'd sort of been half watching it and then he said urgh mum ! |
| 6 | Despite the 1974–8 Kenya Development Plan stating ‘ there has been some counter productive harassment of these enterprises , which will be promptly ended ’ , in 1989 a complete informal vehicle maintenance site was abruptly closed down by the city government . |
| 7 | There has been some enlarging and updating of the bibliography , but many works that might have been included are not there . |
| 8 | There had been some hope that the law would distinguish between such deals , part of normal prudent treasury management , and others , essentially speculative , as if the council were in the finance business itself . |
| 9 | In this country there has been some experimenting with different sorts of cell groups . |
| 10 | The inability to protect children from such abuse has been the subject of a succession of inquiry reports , in which the main reason given for this failure has been some failing in procedure such as the lack of communication among the agencies involved . |
| 11 | There has been some focusing on why people may not be able to come to a CAB and which groups may be affected . |
| 12 | In countries like Colombia and Venezuela , there has been some tinkering with the traditional agrarian system , but on the other hand , Cuba has experienced a complete restructuring of the agrarian sector . |
| 13 | Although there has been some shift in the 1980s to the political right in the United States and West Germany , the socialist share of the vote has hardly changed over the two decades in Austria , Scandinavia , West Germany , and Italy . |
| 14 | He would have withered inside long ago had there not been this to return to . |
| 15 | this is , this is sad I am and how worried I 've been this has been round my neck ! |
| 16 | As some people have pointed out , in the mid-eighties that time would n't have been much to write home about . ’ |
| 17 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |
| 18 | There has n't been much to laugh about since . |
| 19 | ‘ There would not have been many to mourn him . ’ |
| 20 | A dead small dog that 's been all dressed up and everything . |
| 21 | And if you also look the most the the the clearest change that 's happened on the outside of this building , if you look at that window , if you if you follow the edge of the window the original window came all the way down to this point , and then across and up , and this has been all blocked up . |
| 22 | but he must of been all worked up and since then I 've had a right struggle , most nights |
| 23 | We can see this if we consider what would have happened if the only problems animals had had to face had been those posed by the weather and other aspects of the nonliving environment . |
| 24 | ‘ However , we also know that the risks can be mitigated and the most successful buy-ins have been those led by managers able to pick a good team . |
| 25 | There have been those burrowing away for the last year seeking a more sinister reasons . |
| 26 | The technologies considered so far have been those relating to large-scale carpentry and items worn or carried , especially brooches and weaponry . |
| 27 | Undoubtedly , the most dramatic events of recent years have been those associated with the disintegration of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe . |
| 28 | Further , the range of issues highlighted in the texts and their cultural specificity which have so far been those approached by New Historicism are relatively small , giving the appearance of relatively unified Renaissance cultural preoccupations . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the pressing need for a dynamic pope to exploit the political vacuum left by the unexpected death of the Emperor Henry VI and the advantages of a third Roman pope in a row may have won over the opposition — and there may have been those impressed by his vigorous views on the papacy 's role . |
| 30 | And I must admit once I 'd been I 'd , early on when I did n't know an awful lot , then , yeah , but , later on when I had been more experienced there was n't , there was very little difference between how I treated people whether they made a fuss or not . |