Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] been [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've only been twelve months waiting for a |
| 2 | You 've always been one of the gentry , used to grand balls and such . ’ |
| 3 | But I 've never been one of those guys who set out to be a technical guitarist and I still do n't refer to myself as a technical player . |
| 4 | In Rolling Stone we used to , you know I 've never been one of the designers who erm sketches little thumbnails and makes people , makes assistants follow them through . |
| 5 | The modernist council properties have long been one of the strongest fiefdoms of professionalized architecture , being extremely closely linked to development planning and local political interests , and subject to the intervention of both civic authorities and the state . |
| 6 | Editor , — There have basically been two criticisms of my article and Richard Smith 's editorial on alternative allergy and the General Medical Council ( GMC ) — firstly , that it is not the GMC 's job to censor alternative practitioners and , secondly , that the neutralisation-provocation technique has in fact been validated . |
| 7 | In the thirty-two years that have passed since Suez , there have only been four such occasions when the wheel has been put over : |
| 8 | So far over the two days there have only been five sub par rounds out of the 186 played . |
| 9 | In striking contrast to the spring pattern the numbers seen in autumn have , if anything , diminished , although the picture is somewhat distorted by the exceptional occurrence of 21 at Camber on 8 October 1966 ; there have only been three other October records since 1947 . |
| 10 | Since 1969 when the procedure was brought into effect there have only been three review boards , though AIB have conducted something like fifteen inspector 's investigations each year . |
| 11 | Mr Ian Readman , honorary secretary of the Redcar station , said : ‘ In the whole history of Redcar lifeboat there have only been three medals one was a gold , another a silver . |
| 12 | The importance of the recent discovery of this document recording the conclusions of the conferences of 26–27 May is that it fills in what have hitherto been two of the most significant gaps in the whole story . |
| 13 | There have already been four drug related murders in South London this year , and more than seventy incidents involving firearms . |
| 14 | Since registration , there have already been eight examinations , all of which were passed with flying colours , at all times , a company representative or deputy has to be on call ready to answer any questions . |
| 15 | Gritstone is showing a bit of a renaissance these days — there have already been two new E8s this year — and it 's continuing to see plenty of action . |
| 16 | There have already been two attempted coups against him . |
| 17 | There have already been two incidents in a wood in Wales this year , where two red kites and five ravens were found poisoned , and one buzzard and two ravens were shot . |
| 18 | There have already been two murders . ’ |
| 19 | History argues that when Arabs and Israelis do not make peace they will make war : there have already been five and a half since Israel 's founding . |
| 20 | Scholars have not been four weeks connected with the school up to the Sabbath preceding the Festival not to be eligible for admission . |
| 21 | There have also been one or two apparently motiveless murders in Vienna these last few weeks which could be his work , though it 's less certain . ’ |
| 22 | The government has said it is willing to revise its policy on " Remote Area Dwellers " ( Bushmen and others ) , and there have also been two recent official gatherings to discuss such issues , in Namibia and in Botswana . |
| 23 | Since the urban middle-class exodus to the countryside began in earnest in the 1950s there have typically been two issues over which such conflict has been generated : housing and the environment . |
| 24 | There have though been four related developments . |
| 25 | Rarely has a Merseyside derby — and there have now been 147 of them in the League — had such significance for one of the managers . |
| 26 | His three sons are cathedral choristers : ‘ There have n't been three brothers together in the choir for about 12 years , ’ he says , with some pride . |
| 27 | Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the fact that the air squadrons of the Royal Naval Reserve have been especially effective and exceptionally well recruited and that there have even been one or two Harrier pilots in the reserve ? |
| 28 | Birds have never been one of my major interests , I need hardly say . |