Example sentences of "[verb] been so [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care , it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date . |
| 2 | World Bank officials have no pat answers for why there has been so little trickle-down in Thailand . |
| 3 | Part of the reason there has been so little bloodshed is that nobody yet is certain who killed Mr Gandhi or why . |
| 4 | Because there has been so little change in British industrial and fiscal policies in a changing world , the emerging nations are overtaking us , gaining access to our markets at home and abroad . |
| 5 | However , there has been so much midweek domestic football this season that all but the most committed supporters — 12,178 of them in Glasgow , 3,546 in Perth — turned their backs on Tuesday night 's matches . |
| 6 | There has been so much mourning to do . |
| 7 | It is not perhaps since Romanticism that there has been so much discussion , and underlying uncertainty , about the market of literature , and it is no accident that recent years have seen an expansion of the sociology of literature as an academic discipline , alongside increased research into reading habits , the best-seller and how to write it , and the levels of writing that appeal to different strata of the public . |
| 8 | ‘ There has been so much despair among the lot of us that seeing the party back in government again seemed so remote . |
| 9 | Indeed , it is precisely because there has been approximately equal progress on both sides that there has been so much progress in the level of sophistication of design . |
| 10 | There has been so much interest in the industrial side , while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’ |
| 11 | There has been so much interest in the industrial side while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’ |
| 12 | Goodbye and good riddance to the propaganda parade Television coverage of the election campaign has been so much oil on shallow water . |
| 13 | There has been so much talk of saturated and unsaturated fats that most people have heard of them . |
| 14 | There has been so much drama , not only over the first two days , when Henri Leconte had made his fairy tale return to Davis Cup play with his stunning defeat of Sampras in the second singles and then his inspirational contribution to France 's doubles success as he and Forget maintained an 8–0 unbeaten record together in the competition , that it was both right and proper that there should have been more to come . |
| 15 | To explore why there has been so much flux in the structures of competition , some basic distinctions are needed . |
| 16 | Ireland has had so much , she thought ; there has been so much magic and so much strength , and now all of it has gone . |
| 17 | The effect has been so many priorities and urgent tasks to change the meaning and the effect of the concept . |
| 18 | This brain drain' must have been viewed by the authorities as acute , otherwise there would not have been so much coverage of the issue in the media . |
| 19 | To my mum , you know she 's passed , you 're daft , but there 'd have been so much hassle for me to get there ! |
| 20 | There may have been so much conflict indoors that you had to construct your shelter elsewhere . |
| 21 | There had been so many meetings ; 80 a day , someone had told him . |
| 22 | There had been so many secrets . |
| 23 | ‘ Our last two albums for them , ‘ Peace In Our Time ’ and ‘ No Place Like Home ’ , were stodgy affairs , and there had been so many hassles . |
| 24 | During the short time their marriage had lasted , there had been so many times when she had given in to Julius 's forceful demands , just to keep the peace . |
| 25 | He was consumed by indignation that there had been so many attempts to swindle his country in its attempts to gain arms to protect itself from the aggression of Iraq . |
| 26 | There had been so many pieces of paper ; 50 million at least , someone else had told him , generated during his eight years as President . |
| 27 | It was n't worth asking of what kind ; there had been so many beginnings . |
| 28 | But she said that they had been so many months or when everybody else had a pay rise they only had a little bit . |
| 29 | And there had been so much coverage , a retrial would have been impossible . |
| 30 | Her fine words had been so much whistling in the dark . |