Example sentences of "[adv] been [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Basilica Constaninina , now the Cathedral of Rome , S. Giovanni in Laterano , has since been many times altered and added |
| 2 | There have since been many battles at this strategic crossing place , but this was the first , the greatest and the most hard fought . |
| 3 | If there had only been some way they could have gone in the doors of University College together and come home on the bus each night , or better still got a flat together , life would have been perfect . |
| 4 | Had it only been this morning that she had visited Switham House and received that kind lady 's offer of help ? |
| 5 | There has apparently been some misunderstanding about the future of this Club and we have been asked to reassure members that the Club is continuing and that eligibility remains as before . |
| 6 | There had long been some specialists , like vine-dressers or fishermen or cowherds or shepherds , who were producing food , but depended on others for their staple diet . |
| 7 | As a result , overall our sales were down , roughly in line with our competitors in the oil service industry , but there was continuing pressure on margins and profitability and there had obviously been some build-up on the international side in anticipation of higher sales . |
| 8 | There has obviously been some attempt to alter and/or censor , but something of the truth can nevertheless be teased out of the fragments that remain . |
| 9 | There has obviously been some continuity of habitation on the site but , quite honestly , there is no way I could classify it other than , perhaps , Romo-Stuart-Georgian ! |
| 10 | It 's not been much fun so far , ’ she said mournfully . |
| 11 | Iveco 's official language is English , but Mr Aimetti concedes that , in spite of a lot of effort to get people to learn a second language , there has not been much success . |
| 12 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 13 | Later that day , All-India Radio quoted Narasimha Rao as saying that " there has not been much progress on the border issue with China " . |
| 14 | there 's not been much change |
| 15 | Since I have been in the Chair , the Chief Secretary has been interrupted so often that there has not been much opportunity for him to do that . |
| 16 | Although about 350 farms a year become involved in providing accommodation , a fairly high percentage opts out , usually for family reasons , so there has not been much growth in the past 15 years . |
| 17 | Although the Cecchini Report provided some estimates of the likely changes in prices in the member states , there has not been much investigation of these issues . |
| 18 | The regional administrator was able to report to the RHA at the end of the consultation period in November 1982 that ‘ there had not been much opposition to the proposed closures ’ . |
| 19 | She had not been that way before . |
| 20 | Summer would have given way to autumn imperceptibly , had it not been that autumn was the hunting season , and hunting the very purpose of the region . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've not been that well myself , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been worried sick about ye . ’ |
| 22 | But there have not been many games with such drama as we saw here today . |
| 23 | There had not been many Prussians at the bridge , for at best they had only been supposed to delay the French advance . |
| 24 | There have not been many examples of large companies breaking themselves up voluntarily . |
| 25 | No , there has not been another report saying how well she did in the South Atlantic , the European parliament has not ‘ liberated ’ Britain 's £500 million rebate from the European Community , nor has the opposition to the new nuclear power station at Sizewell withdrawn from the public inquiry The news that the Prime Minister has awaited with bated breath ever since she visited CERN last year comes from Switzerland , and it has nothing to do with Zurich , or gnomes . |
| 26 | Be that as it may , though many exciting things have happened to physics in the interim , there has not been another time since 1925 when the foundations have been shaken , the paradigm shifted , our view of the world transformed . |
| 27 | For centuries , there had not been enough grain in the province to feed its people ; then the speculators from the north and the west had overrun the plains and seized the common pastureland to make their profits in cereals ; the great erratic storms of the Ninfanian hinterland burst over the thin fields and washed away the soil , turning the sheep runs of centuries into enclosed wasteland . |
| 28 | Yesterday , Lord Ross , the Lord Justice-Clerk , sitting with Lords McCluskey and Morison , was told that the hearing had been cancelled because the licensing authority now conceded that there had not been enough evidence to justify applying for the warrant . |
| 29 | Summing up at the Colchester inquest of Joan Miller on Wednesday , Essex Coroner Malcolm Weir said there had not been enough communication between staff from Colchester General and Turner Village Hospitals . |
| 30 | ‘ This one has been unfair to the players because there has not been enough cricket in between the Tests . |