Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investors on Wall Street have rarely been in such an uncertain state — which means big money is about to be lost and won |
| 2 | Dr Kallman has since been on another field trip to this area and is able to confirm the widespread range of this species throughout most of the small tributaries of the Rio Coatzacoalcos , and eastwards from Sarabia . |
| 3 | Brittany had long since been in some way subject to Normandy . |
| 4 | I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years . |
| 5 | I 've only been in the industry , I 've only been with this company for two and half years , and when I joined and had a look at what the industry was about , there were thirty express overnight carriers . |
| 6 | The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are . |
| 7 | What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years . |
| 8 | Are you implying that it 's not very long been in this country ? |
| 9 | ‘ Had it not been for that publication Sally might have avoided that almost overwhelming sea of troubles which resulted from harmlessly intended praise . ’ |
| 10 | And doubtless there would have been many more had it not been for that unfortunate accident which befell Mr Rabbit in Mr MacGregor 's garden whereby he ended up in one of Mrs MacGregor 's rabbit pies . |
| 11 | ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ . |
| 12 | We might have had it all , had it not been for that One . ’ |
| 13 | Buddy would have been 56 this year and no doubt raving on even now had it not been for that fateful February in 1959 … the day the music died . |
| 14 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |
| 15 | They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals . |
| 16 | This time tomorrow it would be all over , and part of history ; the victors would be celebrating , the losers complaining that had it not been for this and that , they would have won , and the course of history would have been different . |
| 17 | Too bad the horrendous loading system leaves a nasty taste in the mouth — had it not been for this I 'd have cheerfully awarded around 85% ( disk owners take note ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
| 19 | Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt . |
| 20 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 21 | This has not been at all easy . |
| 22 | Some of the statements of Mrs Thatcher and some of her ministers have not been at all helpful . |
| 23 | It had not been at all like that . |
| 24 | I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before . |
| 25 | His slumber had not been at all restful . |
| 26 | So far though the viewers had not been at all suitable . |
| 27 | But things had not been at all what they 'd seemed — though she was bound by her promise never to reveal the truth . |
| 28 | RENFE , like BR , had , in the words of a Spanish government official , ‘ not been at all concerned with capturing customers and markets , it was more a question of waiting for people to come and request its service ’ ( fieldnotes ) . |
| 29 | I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion . |
| 30 | It 's absolutely clear that the public body should be doing work for private sector organisations , and er , to my knowledge , Lincolnshire County Council have not been to that particular erm , definition , although other authorities do and I have had to stop other authorities undertaking contracts where they are er private sector organisations . |