Example sentences of "[verb] been [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There has been no such softening in the rest of the world , which the west has now taken under its protective tutelage .
2 However , there has been no such disengagement , let alone direct argument against such texts in general .
3 To the best of my knowledge , there has been no such request by British Rail .
4 State if there has been no such contract .
5 For US T-bonds the situation looked a little more optimistic for a couple of years after the launch , but the volume of contracts traded has fallen steeply since 1988 although there has been no such decline in their home base on the CBoT , and despite the fact that LIFFE invested much effort in internationalising this contract — establishing a fungible link with the Sydney Futures Exchange ( SFE ) in 1986 to allow global trading in US T-bonds for 19 hours a day , and reaching an understanding with the CBoT for fungible contracts in the US T-bond and the UK Long Gilt .
6 There has been no such rethink for the changes planned in civil legal aid in court , which was granted in more than 23,000 cases in 1991/92 .
7 Maybe that 's one reason why this show has been a few years in the making .
8 When we were there Stan was with us and he 'd been a few times to Brussels to with the Labour Party and , and he said oh it 's great !
9 I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’
10 If there 'd been the least sign of magical activity we 'd know about it . ’
11 He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area .
12 It can be assumed then that by 1910 the age range ran from 14 to 43 for certain , and there will most likely have been a few women in their late forties or early fifties .
13 There may have been a few villages abandoned in the aftermath of the plague , particularly those on poorer soil , as their inhabitants moved to better lands to take up holdings which had fallen vacant .
14 There would always have been a few men who had been dancing barechested all the evening , dancing with the fierce attention of the tango , or the apache ; these were the ones who stayed on late .
15 Thiercelin was somewhat less interested than he would have been a few days earlier .
16 Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family .
17 up till the age of , about sixteen , after my birthday , the baby would have been a few weeks old , I thought well , if you 're under sixteen , do n't think about the Pill , they 're not going to give it to you .
18 However , because of the recent advent of food surpluses , this is n't the same problem as it would have been a few years ago .
19 This hypothesis does not seem to have a lot going for it because , at the time Matthew — or whoever — was writing , there would still have been a few people around who could say something like I do n't remember any star ! ' )
20 Will I always have been the same sex ?
21 I mean that does have a lot of resonance for all of us. feel that erm I could have been the same person erm with lots of different changes to my body .
22 ‘ Ca n't have been the same girl then . ’
23 And if she 'd married Vincent Van Gogh it would have been the same story .
24 But in fact it would not have been the same mistake .
25 But even if the Verulamium defences were post-Hadrianic , it may not have been the same operation which provided for such an in-significant place as Great Casterton .
26 They must have been the same year , for their birthdays were only two months apart .
27 I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them .
28 There is no shading on the rock here , but it is used on two out of three tiny , marvellous cups from Athens ( figs. 113 , 114 ) made by a potter Sotades and painted by the ‘ Sotades Painter ’ who may well have been the same man .
29 Nothing is known for certain about his parentage and birth , but David Fallows has suggested that he may have been the same man as John Boddenham , born in Oxford in 1422 , chorister and scholar of Winchester College and later scholar and fellow of New College , Oxford .
30 But dad Craig said : ‘ It must have been the same bug . ’
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