Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother was reported in the Star as saying : ‘ It has all been too much for her . |
| 2 | Argentina has not been just any other market for British arms ; it has been one of Britain 's best customers in a long relationship . |
| 3 | The overall shift has not been so much from agriculture to manufacturing but rather a steady rise in the service industries , and a fall in primary industries . |
| 4 | THERE has not been so much breast-beating in the cinema since Bernadette . |
| 5 | There has not been too much building to spoil the village , and the population has not greatly altered over the years , so it is a pleasant village in which to live . |
| 6 | One of the problems , of course , is that , with the invariably available and endlessly enthusiastic Dixon having achieved the remarkable feat of being appointed to no fewer than five of Scotland 's summer tours , there has not been too much opportunity for anyone else to advance his claims . |
| 7 | In appearance , it looks like a stage set for drama — and indeed it has always been just that , whether in historic times , when the drama of John Knox and Mary , Queen of Scots , was played out in the streets , or today , when Schiller 's Mary Stuart , or Donizetti 's or Thea Musgrave 's operas about the ill-fated queen , may be staged at the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 8 | This is largely because there has always been so much more speculation than information about the personal stability of Perry Farrell . |
| 9 | In terms of self-education or self-development ( or whatever term is used ) , the provision of educational material has always been very much part of the public library 's brief . |
| 10 | Industrial relations Although industrial relations , as measured by strikes , have improved , there has still been relatively little progress towards involving employees in the success of their enterprises — through profit-sharing , share ownership and structures of participation . |
| 11 | Perhaps it has really been so much hot air . |
| 12 | The Turkish forces , let's be clear about this , have used napalm against Kurdish villages inside the ‘ safe haven ’ which the rapidstrike force is supposedly on permanent red-alert to protect — yet there has n't been so much as a cheep from any of the elements who cheered the US-led forces into the Gulf War on the basis that regimes which defy international law and slaughter innocent people must be confronted , no matter what the cost . |
| 13 | To date this explosion has n't been that much more than a damp November 5th squib , although it has undoubtedly increased the awareness of the business community that there is rather more to making a presentation than a hand-written flipchart . |
| 14 | " He has n't been home all night , " I said , trying to keep the anxiety out of my voice . |
| 15 | Experts say there has never been so much free time available to so many people . |
| 16 | Setting off for home on the bus has never been so much fun for the children of Grange Junior School in Swindon . |
| 17 | she said she was gon na ring me back , but you see I have n't been here this afternoon so I 'll perhaps ring again tomorrow . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've only been abed these two days . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps if your uncle had only been home more often … ’ |
| 20 | This alone had been enough to bring frowns to Felipe 's dark face , but as they were leaving Ana 's tears had suddenly been too much for Mitch to bear . |
| 21 | THEY HAD ALREADY BEEN almost half an hour inside the barn . |
| 22 | There had already been too much of it in our novels . |
| 23 | In the event it had not been so much religious ‘ discrimination ’ as the limits imposed by lack of money and of land in over-built ancient towns and villages . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've already been up all night . |
| 25 | I find that actually speaking to people my dad , mum and dad , well my mum works in an office , my dad works in a factory , and they 've always been very much sort of you know go out and get your education and |
| 26 | So he had n't been here this morning while she was forcing her way through the woods ? |
| 27 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 28 | Because I had n't been around much , I had n't been away from home |
| 29 | There had n't been so much of that though the last few years . |
| 30 | See th history of the union is I mean er but er you know it 's a it 's a process is n't it in in a way the management have are probably really kicking themselves now for what 's happened you know I mean , their li latest statement is er , Well if there had n't been so much ou outside interference I 'm sure we 'd have been able to settle . |