Example sentences of "[been] [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For quite a long time the prevailing view among economists had been that money does not affect the relative prices of commodities , but that it does determine the overall price level . |
| 2 | Until very recently the standard present-day answer to that question , at least among anthropologists , has been that man has culture and birds do not . |
| 3 | Oh aye Well I 've never been that way see . |
| 4 | Clearly Adalard 's influence was great ( Nithard was not alone in identifying Ermentrude as " Adalard 's niece " rather than as the daughter of Count Odo of Orléans , Adalard 's brother-in-law , though an obvious reason could have been that Odo had died eight years before , perhaps leaving Ermentrude in her uncle 's care ) . |
| 5 | There 's always been that instinct to pick up those who have been hurt ; at one time she wanted to be a nurse , but the thought of night shifts put her off . |
| 6 | It should have been that thing squared and now we then having worked it out that far , |
| 7 | Cotterell 's experience so far had been that RCO had virtually pre-written most of Carson 's material for him . |
| 8 | The result has been that sterling has become very expensive to borrow , but there is still far too much of it , and the supply is still increasing too fast . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But even where there may seem to have been little affection shown and where few apparent links remain , emotional ties that go back to earliest days are strong , and feelings about the death of a parent are bound to go deep . |
| 11 | While attention has been paid to the modification of adjudicative procedures to meet the requirements of a particular area , there has been little thought directed to the broader question of whether adjudication is the correct decision-making process on which to be fashioning procedures . |
| 12 | But there has been little legislation directed specifically towards women . |
| 13 | But in the midst of the holocaust wrought by long-term unemployment on the jobless , there has been little time to examine the effect of the current climate on the working population . |
| 14 | There would have been little room to work or store on the gallery , but it could have been a convenient place to display finished work for the approval of the merchants riding round the countryside in search of stock , as the main road passes nearby and upon which the main flow of riders would have travelled . |
| 15 | There has been little research to evaluate IT and IS and how they effect the top levels of organisations . |
| 16 | The fall-off curves away from such centres of consumption imply that the redistribution of such goods was controlled , but there has been little research carried out to determine the patterns of dispersal in any more detail . |
| 17 | A lot of ‘ behind the scenes ’ work has meant there has been little news to report for some months on the A1 Locomotive Trust 's plans to build Peppercorn Pacific No 60163 . |
| 18 | Three-quarters felt that there had been little feedback following its presentation . |
| 19 | In the UK , different local authorities have developed a range of renewal policies but there has been little attempt to evaluate their effect in the wider urban context . |
| 20 | There has been little attempt to create projects to promote women 's development and even less understanding of the issues involved . |
| 21 | In yet other cases there has been little attempt to intervene . |
| 22 | Note that bass notes are mostly dissonant with the melody , and that there has been little attempt to remove note-relationships which conventionally would be regarded as crude and unmusical . |
| 23 | There has been little attempt to review previous research with a view to formulating and testing specific hypotheses … frequently studies seem to start and finish with relatively untested common sense assumptions . |
| 24 | There is a host of community-related rural organisations in Scotland , many of which are purely social , or purely functional , some of which have broad ( non-party ) political aims , ( very few it seems make any attempt at all to combine social and political aspects even in a semi-structured way ) , but there has been little attempt to make learning connections between the assortment of community groups . |
| 25 | Surprisingly , though , there have been few attempts to acknowledge the fluidity of Renaissance plays . |
| 26 | There have been few attempts to portray mental handicap in the theatre , and despite its progressive nature , the theatre has been slow to respond to the challenge on offer . |
| 27 | His name has been moderately conjured with by British academics , but there have been few attempts to systematize his work for the classroom , as has happened in the United States . |
| 28 | There have been few attempts to show this , but Barry Cunliffe 's diagram of Chalton settlements and the series of changes shown for Bullock Down in Sussex are interesting analyses which deserve to be emulated . |
| 29 | There have been few studies looking at the sexual risk of HIV infection for women who have sex with women and so there are few reported cases of women infected in this way . |
| 30 | It is unclear , however , whether the impaired gastrointestinal motility is secondary to the effects of amyloid on the smooth muscle or on the autonomic nervous system , because there have been few reports assessing the clinicopathologic features in a considerable number of amyloidosis patients with intestinal pseudo-obstruction . |