Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Absent apparently has been any appreciation of the unfortunate historical precedent when Britain last linked her economic fortunes to those of another nation . |
| 2 | Later Selene joined in with Silent Long Have Been Those Numbers . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | There may just have been some hope of effecting change through organization , especially when the numbers of women were still low ( about 300 at the end of the 18805 ) , though the means chosen were not welcomed by the rank and file of the men 's union . |
| 5 | There can hardly have been any business sector with so many strong contenders for it as the banking sector . |
| 6 | There always had been that part of him , rarely seen , that she did n't understand . |
| 7 | There always had been these moments between them when she had to give way , against reason , against sense : he simply had to win . |
| 8 | There would probably have been some cutting in Act 5 . |
| 9 | His hands were very full with arrangements for his attack on Normandy , and there must also have been many discussions about the terms on which he would be willing to make peace with the papacy . |
| 10 | The unlawfulness was generally to be found in the offence of unlawful assembly , but it might also have been another offence such as nuisance caused by obstruction of the highway . |
| 11 | In the non-chronicle sources there are suggestions of rivalry over Calais , where Hastings had replaced Rivers as lieutenant in 1471 , and there may also have been some friction over the Ferrers inheritance , although this does not seem to have been a major issue . |
| 12 | In the non-chronicle sources there are suggestions of rivalry over Calais , where Hastings had replaced Rivers as lieutenant in 1471 , and there may also have been some friction over the Ferrers inheritance , although this does not seem to have been a major issue . |
| 13 | Until an alleged audit failure has been properly investigated , which usually takes some years , the Institute knows no better than anybody else whether there really has been any negligence or wrongdoing . |
| 14 | On the first of these there must inevitably have been some continuation of the raising of teacher-awareness initiated by the involvement of teachers in the library committee and in making submissions to it for inclusion in the proposal . |
| 15 | Cotterell 's experience so far had been that RCO had virtually pre-written most of Carson 's material for him . |
| 16 | The area of Gallia Ulterior conceded to the Alans may well have been that area which had supported Tibatto , and the grant may well have been a means of punishing the rebels and keeping them under surveillance , as well as being a reward for the followers of Goar . |
| 17 | The passages from Mank Ali and Ata'i concerning Abdulfettah do suggest , however , that there may well have been some connection between the pairs of concepts and that there is some basis for assuming that the " interior " referred to is the three cities of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ( and environs ) and the " exterior " the rest of the empire or at least that part of it in which the learned hierarchy operated . |
| 18 | It seems that even if you have loved and been loved , there could well have been some loss to bear in the recent past . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There may even have been some dissatisfaction among Penda 's allies with what had been achieved at Iudeu . |
| 21 | It must surely have been that quality , suggestive of significance , which drew so many writers and designers to vernacular styles , in both the later Victorian and the Edwardian periods . |
| 22 | Stiff with pride — which she was now sick and tired of being told was a Leo trait — and buoyed up by the certain knowledge that it would have been morally indefensible for her to desert her father , Laura had taken some weeks to realise that there must surely have been another way for them to solve their problems . |
| 23 | May have been , well have been many people who suffered at his hands . |
| 24 | In previous elections there has been little change in the parties ' support between the final Sunday of the campaign and polling day . |
| 25 | In yet other cases there has been little attempt to intervene . |
| 26 | At the time of writing there has been little feedback from the trial period earlier this year during which forms CT 200 were completed and submitted alongside the usual accounts and computations . |
| 27 | Ever since this system was introduced there has been much criticism of the validity of basing the TDR on the profitability of the private sector , especially when used for non-commercial public sector evaluations . |
| 28 | To a greater extent than with other mathematically-based research tools there has been much difference of opinion as to its relevance and utility . |
| 29 | But in a majority of cases there has been some success , and in many instances the outcome has been very successful . |
| 30 | One suspects that somewhere along the line of the story 's forming there has been some attempt to draw a veil over the proceedings , and to protect the reputation particularly of the great Moses . |