Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] been [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Footnote : NSS readers have apparently been enquiring about the welfare of my cat , Euclid , who , as I reported last week , went missing after the earthquake . |
| 2 | A number of reports have supported the use of colonoscopic surveillance in ulcerative colitis , but doubts have also been expressed about its efficacy . |
| 3 | Doubts have also been expressed about the safety of the site [ see ED48 ] . |
| 4 | Doubts have already been raised about the cost of the proposals , about possible legal difficulties and about shareholders ' willingness to play the role assigned to them by the APB . |
| 5 | I know that a question has already been asked about export credit guarantees , but does not my right hon. Friend feel that the Government could be more pragmatic , constructive and helpful in assisting manufacturing industry to gain the many orders for capital equipment in the Soviet Union and eastern European countries that can not proceed because of the Department 's failure to grant export credit cover ? |
| 6 | Concerns have also been expressed about the possibility of graft occlusions and increased myocardial ischaemia , especially in patients undergoing myocardial revascularisation . |
| 7 | Well I 'll be going up to watch that match that Hugh 's just been talking about . |
| 8 | Well I 'm certain that if you looked at every post in the City we could certainly save one or two , I do n't think anyone would deny that , but the sort of cases that Queenie 's just been talking about , I think she 's talking absolute nonsense . |
| 9 | As in the case of Cubism , Apollinaire tried to give the word as much of an all-inclusive meaning as possible : ‘ Orphism has already been talked about a great deal . |
| 10 | Movies had always been made about the past , of course , if not so very frequently about that immediate past whose primary unit of measure is the decade rather than the century ; but it was probably Visconti 's The Damned in 1969 that inaugurated what were to be the definitive parameters of a new filmic style . |
| 11 | Jesus had probably been told about Zacchaeus and so was able to call him by name . |
| 12 | Carinish Court had aroused some people 's envy : that at least was true , even if Ralph had perhaps been mistaken about Johnny Redburn 's reaction to the place . |
| 13 | Questions have frequently been raised about the effect upon indigenous paraprofessionals of the training that is provided for them . |
| 14 | But questions have also been raised about it in non-social areas of linguistics , and these are often attached to reservations about the theoretical nature of sociolinguistics as a discipline . |
| 15 | Now there are occasionally criticisms from members that there is too much concentration on the elite end of sport in the Sports Federation in this instance the R Y A but what is important about the is an effort to produce a very high standard as a finished product so to speak to go to the Olympics but it also helps to concentrate minds on the bit that is missing before and help to recycle everybody 's concentration into the training area and Rod has just been talking about the year of youth and of course it follows on very naturally in a post- olympic year to launch that year of youth . |
| 16 | A wide range of comments have also been made about the simplistic nature of the grids as specifiers of where investment should be placed . |
| 17 | It can be argued that no truly great novel has yet been written about the second world war . |
| 18 | Some concern has also been expressed about the impact of conglomerate mergers on the economy and it is this issue which is addressed next . |
| 19 | Some caution has already been expressed about the extent to which the new GCSE examinations will reach less able children previously excluded from the Certificate of Secondary Education . |
| 20 | Ironists reflect with pleasure that nevertheless one of the great literary biographies of the century has subsequently been written about Proust . |
| 21 | No film has yet been made about LSD . |
| 22 | Mr Freeman told the Commons on March 13th that no conclusions have yet been reached about the ‘ timing or method ’ of privatisation ; but his boss at the transport department , Malcolm Rifkind , has already rejected some ideas . |
| 23 | To counter-balance any shortcomings on the domestic front claims have frequently been made about the major contribution which financial services rendered to the economy through invisible exports . |