Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only I 'd been 10 years of age again , I 'd have loved the ‘ Pirates Club ’ . |
| 2 | Jack speculated that perhaps there had been some interference by a superior , or that vandals may have seen the lonely outpost as a target for action . |
| 3 | Perhaps there 'd been some trouble — some kind of scene he wanted to warn her about . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | The report was published in July 1986 and concluded that apparently there had been little work done on the effects of skill mix on patient services and that " a higher priority should be given by management to achieving the best value for money by the adoption of methods of allocating staffing resources more closely related to the needs of patients and ward objectives . |
| 6 | ‘ If only there 'd been more time , ’ said Kelly , ‘ I 'd have tried to help her work out a clear-cut characterisation , but we had a tight schedule and I left it up to her . ’ |
| 7 | I mean obviously this is nothing new , obviously there 's been this sort of thing for some time in the past , but I think what we 've got to ask ourselves is ‘ what sort of a society are we now reaping ? ’ |
| 8 | Furthermore there has been little research which has dealt specifically with Scotland . |
| 9 | Public sector housing development had followed the guidelines more closely than the private sector , but even so there had been substantial investment in some non-key villages . |
| 10 | Over the last century or so there have been frequent conflicts between individual and group interests . |
| 11 | And finally there have been some items in some of the national newspapers recently concerning university science parks . |
| 12 | Thus there have been two periods of renewal and change ; during 1971–76 and again between 1984–90 . |
| 13 | The predictions of zero-risk theory in terms of accident countermeasures are often at variance with those from RHT , thus there has been considerable debate about the relative merits of the two theories ( e.g. Evans , 1986a , b ; McKenna , 1982 , 1985 , 1988 ; Wilde , 1984 , 1986 ) . |
| 14 | Already there have been many studies of the effect of unemployment on health ; do they give useful results ? |
| 15 | Half a universe away there had been another tunic cuff , the gold braid scorched and burned so that its imprint was fused on to the skin of his arm . |
| 16 | Nevertheless there has been little interest in exploring for Zechstein gas in the North Sea and the test results so far encountered have been very discouraging . |
| 17 | The LAS admitted yesterday there had been one case of a 25-minute delay in sending an ambulance . |
| 18 | NICHOLAS Baring ( above ) , chairman of Commercial Union , told the annual meeting yesterday there had been minimal disturbance to the insurer 's services following the IRA bomb last Friday . |
| 19 | He had been discharged but a year later there had been little change in his weight . |
| 20 | I accept what the hon. Lady suggests , because clearly there have been regional differences in economic conditions . |
| 21 | There is an approximation to this for all of these samples , but clearly there has been considerable bone loss from even the most complete bone assemblages . |
| 22 | Traditionally it has been common practice for schools to seek to maintain discipline and control misbehaviour via the exertion of authority and the employment of sanctions as punishments . |
| 23 | ‘ So far we have been very trade oriented in our advertising , ’ said . |
| 24 | So far there has been little discussion of the superego for the simple reason that there has been little cause to mention it . |
| 25 | But so far there has been little sign of it . |
| 26 | ( While so far there have been some falls in prices , basically in the South , the national price picture has remained positive . ) |
| 27 | Up to now there have been four methods of regulating supply and demand , all equally iniquitous . |
| 28 | However , for several years now there have been low cost cameras like Polaroid 's Palette that provided a quick and effective alternative for those who either needed total confidentiality or were simply rather less fussy about the quality . |
| 29 | Now there have been some allegations flying around that there are people in the parliamentary Labour Party who want to get rid of that link and I want to categorically say that there is no serious figure in the Labour Party who shares that opinion there 's no one in the G M B group who takes that view there 's no one in the Shadow Cabinet and what is more , I know from my own personal experience , and my dealings with him over thirty years , that there is no greater supporter of the trades union link than John Smith himself ! |
| 30 | Until now there have been few reports on hepatic failure caused by disorders of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation . |