Example sentences of "been [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd 've loved to have been that pillow , I really would er things he was doing to this pillow it was |
| 2 | One of the problems with traditional remedial teaching has been that spelling and neatness are fetishes . |
| 3 | One result of this has been that theology itself has become ecumenical in a fashion undreamt of a century ago , and many of the main fronts in theological debate and controversy now run across rather than along denominational boundaries . |
| 4 | It might have been that night I dreamed |
| 5 | For quite a long time the prevailing view among economists had been that money does not affect the relative prices of commodities , but that it does determine the overall price level . |
| 6 | This has sometimes been justified on security grounds but often the argument has been that disclosure is not in the public interest , that " secrecy is at all times the condition in which the best men make the best decisions . " |
| 7 | suggested in Ex parte Benson ( No. 2 ) , The Times , 21 November 1988 , the decision in Handscomb had been that detention for a period equivalent to a determinate sentence of 27 years exceeded by such a wide margin any determinate sentence passed in recent years for the offence of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility , and was thus in the absence of reasons irrational , I would not disagree . |
| 8 | There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other . |
| 9 | This could be heard approaching from some distance off , owing to its lack of an exhaust pipe , and was known around the camp as the Green Devil because it had , once upon a time , been that colour all over , instead of just in places as now . |
| 10 | I suppose some people might have but I think I did n't really want to face up to the fact that he might have been that man on the beach . ’ |
| 11 | Until very recently the standard present-day answer to that question , at least among anthropologists , has been that man has culture and birds do not . |
| 12 | Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day . |
| 13 | It must have been that day or the next , Adam thought , that he or one of them , surely he , had first suggested the commune idea . |
| 14 | An uncommonly good lunch it must have been that day . |
| 15 | It 's same as , what ow she 's gone into hospital with her , you know , and I 'd actually been that day , you know what I mean , I do n't mind , do n't get me wrong , I 'm not cross , 'cos I do n't mind . |
| 16 | There always had been that part of him , rarely seen , that she did n't understand . |
| 17 | Have you been that part there ? |
| 18 | Others said it must have been that girl who worked here , the one who was the German officer 's mistress , she knew everything that was going on around here . |
| 19 | ‘ My theory has always been that working practices and the way that careers are structured are not really compatible with having a family as well . |
| 20 | A more fundamental objection has been that music-hall and vaudeville were essentially controlled by showmen who were of course entrepreneurs . |
| 21 | She had helped to pick up all the things spilt from the bag , but there had been that look in her eye just before — a familiar look , contempt , indifferently hidden . |
| 22 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 23 | Had it really been that afternoon ? |
| 24 | The new US approach fell short of outright recognition for Bazin 's government , but involved urging exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to meet with Bazin , whereas the earlier US position had been that Aristide should choose his own Prime Minister prior to his return to the country . |
| 25 | A reasonable defence might have been that field sports were preferable to roaming the docks but , instead , the chief rabbi was assured that the boys needed the exercise . |
| 26 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 27 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 28 | One of the sad side-effects of industrial action during the early years of the implementation of ISS has been that work on improving the teacher-parent partnership has been more neglected by teachers than anyone initially expected . |
| 29 | In the past one accusation sometimes levelled against much primary school history has been that work is insufficiently " historical " in approach . |
| 30 | But life had not always been that way with Moby . |