Example sentences of "been this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His harrying of Essex in 994 could well have been this second occasion , and if so the first may have been the Maldon campaign in 991 . |
| 2 | It is part of the explosion of interest in music there has been this century . |
| 3 | I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century . |
| 4 | There has always been this tendency over here to try and save on public spending , ’ says Professor Greve . |
| 5 | ‘ To the pigs with the slops , where you should have been this mornin' , ’ replied his wife . |
| 6 | In verse fourteen and fifteen , Jesus uses an illustration that Nicodemus would have been very familiar with , it was back in th in the ancient history of the nation of Israel , when they were wandering through the wilderness and he says , just as Moses a , way back there on that occasion lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , there had been this plague , if if you have plagues of serpent , there had been this plague of serpents , and they 'd bitten the people and they were dying like flies and Moses comes to God , he says what are you gon na do ? |
| 7 | In verse fourteen and fifteen , Jesus uses an illustration that Nicodemus would have been very familiar with , it was back in th in the ancient history of the nation of Israel , when they were wandering through the wilderness and he says , just as Moses a , way back there on that occasion lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , there had been this plague , if if you have plagues of serpent , there had been this plague of serpents , and they 'd bitten the people and they were dying like flies and Moses comes to God , he says what are you gon na do ? |
| 8 | It had been this problem which had led to the complex arrangements for picking up Ruggiero on his release . |
| 9 | Jay said : ‘ I do n't know what I 'm doing , it 's never been this way before , ca n't go on anything else , but this time I 'm not going to fuck up . ’ |
| 10 | Had he always been this way ? |
| 11 | No horses have been this way since you drove them off , ’ he said to Allen . |
| 12 | ‘ You have been this way before . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've never been this way before . |
| 14 | For my experience would have been this way no matter how other experiences might or might not have been . |
| 15 | Fairfax has n't been this way for twenty years . |
| 16 | He had never been this way before . |
| 17 | Heather had been this way before him , had seen and understood what he would shortly see and might yet understand . |
| 18 | Yeah , I was gon na give you a ring to say it 's been this way , pick them up |
| 19 | It may not have been this boy 's fault . ’ |
| 20 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 21 | The culmination has been this year 's first World Championships in which Andy took 2nd place as well as being co-sponsor with Palm . |
| 22 | I think if anything can stop some of the things happening to youngsters that have been this year then it is a good thing . |
| 23 | A HUMBLE £28-a-day flagman bears the main responsibility for the shambles that should have been this year 's Aintree Grand National , according to the official inquiry into ‘ The race that never was . ’ |
| 24 | According to Michael Heseltine , President of the Board of Trade : ‘ It has always been this Government 's policy to put current services into the private sector where this makes sense . |
| 25 | Chairman , it 's always been this Committee 's policy over the twenty years , the twenty odd years that I 've been here , back here ru runner , that erm , so far as the food side is concerned , er , we should be , our policy should be based on the information , the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth , and letting people make up their own minds . |
| 26 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 27 | So it must of been this afternoon when |
| 28 | Navjuvanov was dismissed , accused of corruption , and it appeared to have been this event which sparked off the rallies outside the parliament building in Shahidan ( " Martyrs ' " ) Square . |
| 29 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 30 | After the very earliest period of relative non-differentiation of functions , in which the ‘ literary ’ or ‘ artistic ’ had not or not fully separated out from the more generally ‘ cultural ’ , there had been this phase of specifically instituted artists , which should not really be described in terms taken from later phases , such as ‘ official recognition ’ or ‘ patronage ’ . |