Example sentences of "[been] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To accept that whatever she had done or promised or performed to maintain her position in Market Square then her choice could only have been that or the workhouse . |
| 2 | As a result there would have been little or no evolutionary pressure on cats to develop an anti-stranger reaction where kittens are concerned . |
| 3 | Hardcore porn is openly traded in the cities and exhibited in cinemas and video shops across the country , despite experimental zoning restrictions in certain areas , yet there has been little or no attempt in the courts or the legislatures to discriminate between the greater and lesser dangers it represents . |
| 4 | Thus despite the companies ' use of highly toxic chemicals , such as cyanide , there appears to have been little or no state regulation of the environmental impact of mining , until the Navan mines project . |
| 5 | If the pulsar is a rejuvenated old neutron star , the large magnetic field suggests that there has been little or no decay from its original value , lending support to work suggesting the field decay may not occur , in contrast to other evidence . |
| 6 | In the more notorious slum districts , there appears to have been little or no respect for the law . |
| 7 | Up to then there had been little or no solid research in this field and the facts as to sexual elements in British society were still arcane . |
| 8 | While there have been several academic studies using data from the 1982 , and the subsequent 1984 BCS , there has been little or no independent research using the local data sets . |
| 9 | There may have been little or no discussion of these issues , even among the higher clerics and ecclesiastical advisers , but Innocent was too polished a performer not to realize the public relations advantages of pronouncement in a general council . |
| 10 | But the coded language of the joint communiqué issued at the end of Churchill 's Washington visit of January 1952 showed that there had been little or no meeting of minds . |
| 11 | The disease progressed rapidly and there 's been little or no remission . ’ |
| 12 | Since the mid-1980's there has been little or no growth . |
| 13 | Barbara , whose previous experiences in that line had been few but enjoyable , remembered with guilty nostalgia the handful of nights she had spent with the managing director at the Royal Albion in Brighton . |
| 14 | Letters from the States had been few and far between of late , although money from Sean still came from time to time . |
| 15 | You may have made progress , you may have known times of happiness and fulfilment , but they have been few and far between . |
| 16 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 17 | Although the disasters resulting from interference have , so far , been few and far between , the potential for havoc is growing daily : something must be done . |
| 18 | Third Class golfers must have been few and far between as my ticket example is only number 16 ! |
| 19 | In a strife-torn country where terrorist hijacking and hostage taking is a common occurrence , full-blown sieges have been few and far between . |
| 20 | It was expected that case law would give rise to sufficient precedents to flesh out the relatively few guidelines available under UCTA , but in fact cases have been few and not very helpful . |
| 21 | His movies since the early 1970s have been few and far between . |
| 22 | Now , I suppose for most of us , bu bu because of the very fact we 're here this morning they have been few and far between , such experiences . |
| 23 | and we 've , I mean we 've said this on reflection afterwards , as much as we do n't like cutting up plates of sandwiches there must have been some that took home half a dozen |
| 24 | Demand for prospectuses has been such that an Independent scribe seeking a Warburgs telephone number for publication was told the firm really would prefer that it did not appear in print . |
| 25 | But has anything else that has changed in those twenty-five years — or , for that matter , in the years since abolition — been such that it ought to influence the mind of a Member who is unable to convince himself that capital punishment deters ? |
| 26 | The incentives have been such that several farmers in the LFA in Snowdonia for instance made no secret of their view that they would not have contemplated the schemes in the absence of grants . |
| 27 | The nature of community representation in Pittsburgh has been such that , while obliged to consult groups over the allocation of federally originating money , only one group per neighbourhood was consulted . |
| 28 | But had it not been that actual set of people — Sam Phillips , the band , Elvis and The Jordanaires — the chemistry might not have been such that it worked . |
| 29 | Graham 's devotion to his family has always been such that he drives home every night from Test matches in London rather than stay in the team hotel . |
| 30 | In a small number of cases the JMU 's evidence has been such that the committee has decided the firm should not be registered , or that registration should be granted , but with restrictive conditions ( where , for example , a partner may be precluded from acting as a ‘ responsible individual ’ ) . |