Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Suffolk was the only link and he could remember quite distinctly , on first going to Nunes , how there had been some dispute as to whether it was in Suffolk or Essex .
2 Steven thinks that just be I only just got in he said , I 'm having my tea and he said there 's no way I 'm gon na do nothing like that at this time of night when I 've been fourteen hours at work So then he stormed off back home again so he said well you 'll have to move it cos it 's obstructing the dual carriageway someone might come round that corner fast and hit it .
3 When I get back Lucker wonders where I have been all night .
4 God knows where she 'd been last night . ’
5 For Soho was where she had been last evening , wondering what to do and where to go to fill the time ; there , in Shaftesbury Avenue , she had seen Lucinda and the airmen .
6 Go on , ask her where she 's been all afternoon , dressed up like a tart and missing for bloody hours .
7 A scan of the literature concerned with early Anglo-Saxon archaeology over the last 25 years has hardly reflected this change until very recently when there have been definite signs that dissatisfaction is leading to experimentation ; otherwise the Sutton Hoo harp has been played while the archaeological world burned .
8 We have been very pleased that in the intervening months , when there has been ample opportunity for discussion and feedback , considerable support for this scheme has been forthcoming .
9 In a year when there has been considerable fund-raising to meet the Irish Ladies Hockey Union 's initial £m target , to help stage the World Cup finals in Dublin in July , Ulster officials are delighted to have successfully negotiated a year 's extension on Renault 's sponsorship of their senior leagues .
10 This had the advantage that ‘ lower ’ races could be dismissed as earlier steps in the advance that had survived into the present in parts of the world where there had been less stimulus for mental development .
11 So if you start saying there ca n't be any publicity where there 's been alleged malpractice or where there 's controversy er well you 're going to get into in into a ludicrous situation in which the media will never be able to discuss a situation of this sort .
12 Where the reference was automatic ( £1,000 or less only being involved ) Ord 19 , r 6 provides that no solicitors ' charges or litigant in person costs may be awarded except the costs which were stated on the summons or which would have been stated on the summons if the claim had been for a liquidated sum , the costs of enforcing the award , and such further costs as the arbitrator may direct where there has been unreasonable conduct on the part of the opposite party in relation to the proceedings or the claim therein .
13 There is no real news there of the owl , but someone suggests that I try the hills above Núpur where there has been much activity lately .
14 The regulations against which the Opposition are praying concern backdated entitlement to benefit where there has been official Department of Social Security error or where relevant evidence was not known at the time of the original DSS decision .
15 The real test is whether they have been used in all the cases where there has been flagrant abuse , and I have reason to believe that the traffic commissioners are doing their job competently in that connection .
16 The length of that period depends on the seriousness of the punishment : where there has been any period of imprisonment between six months and thirty months , the conviction becomes " spent " after ten years have elapsed .
17 This may be part of the explanation in Britain , where there has been some improvement in the potential of the economy .
18 Even in the urban core where there has been massive population loss associated with slum clearance , there were almost as many dwellings in 1981 as there had been in 1961 and , as Table 3.4 shows , the area now has a far higher standard of amenity .
19 May we have an urgent inquiry into why , over the past three years , the number of complaints against the health service in Lewisham and North Southwark has gone up by 100 per cent. , why there have been 30 complaints already this year and why serious complaints of maladministration and negligence have been made against Guy 's , King 's College and St.
20 And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before .
21 In 1985 councillors spent an average of seventy-four hours a month on their duties , a slight decrease on 1976 when it had been seventy-nine hours ( Widdicombe 1986 : 126 ) .
22 ‘ And that 's where he had been this time ? ’
23 JIM WISE , NDO for Credit Accumulation and Transfer , has been seconded from Napier Polytechnic of Edinburgh where he has been Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics since 1981 .
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