Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , two men took me into a corner and fired questions at me for what seemed like ages , but can only have been about half an hour . |
| 2 | Luckily Miss Malley was on leave at the time , otherwise this event might just have been too much for her . |
| 3 | Even though the annual value of these rights could hardly have been as much as £100,000 a year , the Company was ready to outdo the Bank of England and the East India Company and take on £9½m. of the National Debt , which would have been about a quarter of the total outstanding after the Treaty of Utrecht . |
| 4 | Redundancies , short-time working , bonus cuts and the like have been very much the order of the day we 've had the twenty percent job cuts at Blue Circle Cement which are mentioned specifically in the report and we 've also seen significant additional job losses at British Gypsum in the brick industry and in many other sectors of the building materials industry . |
| 5 | The queen dowager would probably have been considerably more of an embarrassment at large , and the Crowland chronicler implies that Gloucester did not really want to resolve the question . |
| 6 | The queen dowager would probably have been considerably more of an embarrassment at large , and the Crowland chronicler implies that Gloucester did not really want to resolve the question . |
| 7 | By the time the mare impacts occurred there would probably have been too little dust available to fill the maria . |
| 8 | A return to the reviled rates would presumably have been too much to take . |
| 9 | That house might well have been here that big house just there across th in there which has now been turned into flats . |
| 10 | It might even have been just another sound effect . |
| 11 | As he points out there has been surprisingly little research in this area and what there is derives mostly from the sociology of education under the heading of teacher socialisation . |
| 12 | Opportunities for dual qualification , in both education and librarianship , barely existed until the pioneer establishment of a Teacher-Librarianship Diploma at University College London in the late 1960s , and although a variety of different courses are now emerging there has been precious little encouragement or inducement for ambitious people to take advantage of them . |
| 13 | Some critics say there has not been enough action over Aids while others complain there has been too much . |
| 14 | For those who have survived the recession intact there has been too much self-interest , need and greed , stab and grab , call it what you will , and companies I believe are suddenly beginning to realise that integrity , ethics and pragmatism may have a ‘ bottom line ’ value in the years to come that the accountant 's profit culture attitude may change a little . |
| 15 | The pious hush in there had been too much for them . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're crazy about each other and should never have been apart this last year , but it 's fate , you see , coming here and bumping into them like that in that restaurant . ’ |