Example sentences of "[verb] been [det] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another difficulty has been that such councils are attuned to providing finance for the creation of specific works , while the need for support in popular music is not at the point of creation , but for help in reaching audiences . |
| 2 | However , the British people must be asking where it has been all these years . |
| 3 | Miss Evans moved from the sink where she 'd been all this time , standing quite still , and started to clear the plates from the table . |
| 4 | If there 'd been any more trouble , we would just have drawn our staffs and knocked all hell out of them . |
| 5 | If at any stage in the discussions on Monday , or in all the other discussions that I have attended in the past two years , it had been a question of majority vote , there would have been much less agreement , and to the extent that decisions had been imposed by a majority , they would have been much less effective . |
| 6 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 7 | It would have been much more fun , do n't you think , if they 'd dressed as housewives . |
| 8 | Must have been all those flowers . |
| 9 | Frankly , I do not believe that there should have been all this talk about a little bit of majority voting on foreign policy . |
| 10 | To sustain carnivores , there must have been many more herbivores ; but the idea that two of each kind were created somewhere and slowly spread and multiplied would not go with real population dynamics . |
| 11 | In fact it might well have been that such developments generally attracted more labour than could be fully employed , which departed once the enterprise was terminated , leaving behind a sleepy farming community not unlike the fifteen undeveloped villages of Babergh hundred ( Table 2.18 ) . |
| 12 | Having been all this time contented about his welfare , now that her leaving was fixed and certain , she had begun to have misgivings . |
| 13 | She would be now , as she had been all that day , out praying for his soul . |
| 14 | It had been all those things , it had started as all those things , but now it was work and love . |
| 15 | She was nervous before stepping onto the set of Delinquents , just as she had been all those years ago when she did the rehearsals for The Henderson Kids . |
| 16 | Gladly , willingly , he accepted and he again became a familiar figure at our ground as he had been all those years before . |
| 17 | Sebastian and I began to feel as close as we had been all those years ago . |
| 18 | She was becoming almost as sensitive to him as she had been all those years ago . |
| 19 | If it had been another few inches either side it would have been my neck or my heart and I would be dead . |
| 20 | I I I 've I 've been these these routes before |
| 21 | The far bigger prehistoric apes must have found it much harder and therefore have been much more terrestrial . |
| 22 | There have been many more incidents in the north-east , in particular , and that is why the recent transfer of Mr. J. A. Stevens from being deputy chief constable of Cambridgeshire will doubtless be welcomed in Northumbria . |
| 23 | For Essex there have been few such problems , and his batting has been , after Keith Fletcher 's captaincy , probably the chief reason for their successes . |
| 24 | Let us assume that someone , speaking of George , utters : ( 10 ) he certainly did n't make the comments audible On the assumption that the adjective is here a predicate qualifier , George is innocent of responsibility for the comments which were audible , if indeed there have been any such remarks at all . |
| 25 | well after he 's been all this while . |