Example sentences of "been [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only consistent area of preference in British policy has been satellites ; the other two major components of launchers and ground stations have ( contrary to French doctrine ) been left to others . |
| 2 | There had been profiles of him that suggested that he was a jogger who had been bitten by one of Alex ‘ Down Sir ’ Snell 's pit-bulls . |
| 3 | A sliver of white that must 've been teeth . |
| 4 | The first four should perhaps have been Giants , although the number of good female reads is a bit too heavy in April . |
| 5 | A few admitted that there had been excesses . |
| 6 | She admitted there had been excesses . |
| 7 | The key feature of associative learning is that , unlike habituation or sensitization , it is a long-lasting effect , and all the mechanisms discussed so far have been transients . |
| 8 | The times and places of striking advance in productivity have by no means generally been times and places of educational advance ; nor , where they have been , is it clear whether this is cause and effect or , if so , which is cause and which effect . |
| 9 | However , there have been times in the recent past when 50 per cent of the artists selling and succeeding in the USA have been British . |
| 10 | But she admits : ‘ Yes , there have been times of anger and frustration for me as well as Jack . |
| 11 | There 's been times , erm , other things , usually something unconnected with the music . ’ |
| 12 | There may have been times during your working life when you have not , either knowingly or unwittingly , paid national insurance contributions . |
| 13 | There had been times in her life when she had been — if not happy , then content . |
| 14 | Having said that , there have been times , one particular occasion in the west of Ireland I remember only too well , when after four days of heavy rain , I would have swapped tent , pack , pots and all for a warm bed and a hot bath . |
| 15 | ‘ There have been times since it ended when I gave up hope of ever eating food like this again . ’ |
| 16 | There had been times , after all , while he 'd been serving his stretch in prison that he really had wondered whether he had hallucinated it all ; wondered whether he was losing his mind . |
| 17 | Not that those centuries had been times of uninterrupted peace . |
| 18 | There had been times , especially after a long busy night at the club , when she had been severely tempted to just throw in the towel and thumb through the Yellow Pages to find the nearest painter and decorator to hand . |
| 19 | I tell you , after a long life of many escapes , many dramas which might have been tragedies , what I want and would value most is to be free to choose as much of my life as is given to me — to live it by my own lights , Mary , to do , insofar as God wills it , what I want to do to the very hilt and limit . ’ |
| 20 | I know nothing about Mr McLachlan he does not appear in Who 's Who : whether he hails from Scotland , Ireland , Korea or Czechoslovakia ; whether he is Catholic , Presbyterian or Buddhist ; whether he is married with children ( sorry , kids ) or celibate ; whether there have been tragedies in his life , or whether it has been an uninterrupted progression to his present exalted situation . |
| 21 | Yet when I emerged from that heaven-haven of sexual absolution , I would feel guilty , frightened , torn between happiness at being liberated from overwhelming sexual tension and the scared wonder of the events , as if they had been rituals in a half-remembered primitive religion . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've been ages , ’ said Elinor , as he and Maisie trudged up the steps . |
| 23 | ‘ Have we been ages ? |
| 24 | ‘ It 's been ages , ’ Jessica said . |
| 25 | It 's been ages since well , since I looked , but I 'm sure it 's something like that . |
| 26 | Been ages since the last time , it were about two year I . |
| 27 | The worst affected have been birds such as the terns and kittiwakes which feed by catching small fish near the sea surface by shallow plunge-diving . |
| 28 | Jane uses the car then on Friday did n't she when she 's been hairdressers ? |
| 29 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 30 | The point was long in doubt , and there may have been reasons for thinking that it might not be appropriate to extend the obligation to measures adopted before a directive existed . |