Example sentences of "[verb] been [det] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN THE Collectair office there has been much back correspondence to catch up on . |
| 2 | Amidst such massive coverage there has been little television interest in what ordinary people get out of sport . |
| 3 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 4 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 5 | A significant milestone has been that product revenues for the AViiON line finally surpassed those of the proprietary Eclipse MV products . |
| 6 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |
| 7 | A recurring complaint from industry has been that pension funds are too short-term orientated , to the detriment of the companies in whose shares they deal . |
| 8 | Similarly , Byers 's ( 1987 ) work in the Mount Everest National Park indicates that there has been less forest removal than envisaged and that shrubs/grassland and forested slopes below 4000 m OD are stable . |
| 9 | Children from Primary 3 upwards do have diaries to keep parents informed if there has been any homework set — but is rarely any until Primary 7 age . |
| 10 | These centres may attract finance from a variety of sources , mainly local authorities , and there has been some government funding . |
| 11 | A reasonable defence might have been that field sports were preferable to roaming the docks but , instead , the chief rabbi was assured that the boys needed the exercise . |
| 12 | He might just have been another guitar player who ended up playing back-up for a lot of people , which was what he was doing in America . ’ |
| 13 | His harrying of Essex in 994 could well have been this second occasion , and if so the first may have been the Maldon campaign in 991 . |
| 14 | It may have been this group Professor Ashton had in mind when he drew attention to the way in which London banks played a role in making available the " savings of agriculturalists ' to provide " much of the investment in manufacture " . |
| 15 | That 's not to say there was n't child abuse now , I I have my own thoughts and in my own feelings feel that there could have been some child abuse especially ch sexual abuse . |
| 16 | I was surprised to see that the recording venue was good old Abbey Road Studios : there is such a prominent background rumble that I had assumed it must have been some city church . |
| 17 | There may have been some weather impact in the last two months , but basically , it looks like the major U S oil companies that were going overseas are still spending money on buying leases and building up infrastructure . |
| 18 | It may even be fair to say that if this were not so , then surely there would never have been any life experience at all . |
| 19 | There can hardly have been any business sector with so many strong contenders for it as the banking sector . |
| 20 | It could have been any Yorkshire farmhouse kitchen , except that there was no sign of cooking , and no farmer sitting at the table . |
| 21 | Since its construction almost thirty years before there had been little capital investment . |
| 22 | Their action may have resulted from purely local causes : there had been many border clashes . |
| 23 | Of course there had been many Christmas parties after Maman went away , Aunt Tossie saw to that — but they were not memorable . |
| 24 | Labour 's traditional view had been that interest rates should be kept down and investment restricted to feasible levels , not by monetary policy , but by quantitative credit controls and physical materials controls . |
| 25 | He revealed that there had been several Iranian-US contacts " in the last few days " through the Swiss embassy in Tehran . |
| 26 | The divisional manager of Strathclyde Buses , Bert McGinley , said there had been several knife assaults which have resulted in hand cuts , and threats on drivers . |
| 27 | I pointed out that if there had been any counter demonstration effect would have been serious and very uncomfortable to both of us . |
| 28 | The authorities denied that there had been any insider trading by dealers anticipating price rises resulting from the March 21 suspension of trading . |
| 29 | There had been some war damage but this was not on a scale which lent itself to large-scale redevelopment . |
| 30 | Half a universe away there had been another tunic cuff , the gold braid scorched and burned so that its imprint was fused on to the skin of his arm . |