Example sentences of "it 's [been] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Er I 've always er , I do n't think I e I b th whenever I 've been unhappy with work it 's been work that I 've allowed myself to do for ulterior motives , for money or whatever I m The things I 've done er even th the things that have been unsuccessful th if I 've wanted to do them , I 've been able to live with that .
2 Maybe it 's a it 's been spade or something ?
3 Yes we have , it 's been Liverpool .
4 At the UCCA building in Cheltenham where applications for university places are processed , it 's been chaos today , with worried students calling for advice .
5 At the UCCA building in Cheltenham where applications for university places are processed , it 's been chaos today , with worried students calling for advice .
6 If it has n't been invaders from without it 's been subversion from within .
7 I 've had this twice and each time it 's been upheaval because he 's got a lot of goods which had to moved in shoe horned in moved peoples belongings out of one cupboard into another .
8 I mean over the last two years it 's been shock horror headlines , you know , will endowments fail to repay the loan , are endowments good value and I ke some of the journalists I 've read bef over the last two years have actually completely reversed what they said t two years ago when P E Ps were declining because of poor share markets and bonuses were coming through quite nicely on the endowments , they said oh endowments are the thing to do .
9 ‘ My deah , ’ she cooed , croaking like Katharine Hepburn , ‘ it 's been sempleah ages … ‘
10 Mind you , I think probably cos it 's been poll taxed has n't it ?
11 It 's been home to generations of intrepid time lords , and wo n't be sold for less than fifteen thousand pounds .
12 of course it 's pride , it 's been pride since the start .
13 It 's been pride since the start and it 's pathetic silly little girls is n't it ?
14 And it 's been expansion to survive .
15 It 's been ages , ’ Jessica said .
16 It 's been ages since well , since I looked , but I 'm sure it 's something like that .
17 It 's been ice cold that 's why .
18 it 's , it 's been hassle because
19 Thou got my eckle up the day thou left , and it 's been sky ‘ igh over eight year . ’
20 It 's been Huey , George , Ralph and Bert for the last few days , liquid laffs ahoy .
21 As for smoking , there are nights when it 's been friend , fire and food to me .
22 I 've had a bit of trouble with this ear again , it 's been kind of sore on and off , and down my neck .
23 Lately it 's been Julian Schnabel time at Pace .
24 Most of them it 's been questions of rather less fundamental changes in the actual teaching style in the classroom and sometimes it 's been a question of concentrating on rather different kinds of things or giving more time to one kind of activity than another , or changing the pattern of assignments that they gave children , or things that were still well within the capacity of teachers to change without involving sort of fundamental changes in teaching style .
25 I pre-recorded it to a click track on Tuesday — very nervously , it 's been years since I sang — and will mime it with a live orchestra tonight .
26 But it 's been months , dear !
27 It 's been months since we were in bed together .
28 Since his wife died it 's been Cissie who 's looked after everything . ’
29 Meanwhile in the high-tech hospitals for the better-off it 's been business as usual .
30 But it 's been weeks now , and no progress .
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