Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later Selene joined in with Silent Long Have Been Those Numbers . |
| 2 | There always had been these moments between them when she had to give way , against reason , against sense : he simply had to win . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | erm In that sense , whereas of course in the case of primary schools there 've been fewer resources but of course far fewer students . |
| 5 | It means there 've been more cries for help . |
| 6 | There must be hundreds of females and males out there too frightened to speak out in case they lose their jobs , because let's not forget there have been many cases in which males have been harassed or are being ha harassed . |
| 7 | Erm well why would you er get engaged in a , a contest erm with er the three warring factions , because you certainly would n't be able to con confine yourself to one , and since there 's no national interest as such , I know there have been many attempts to link er Bosnia with er peace in the world generally or with world order , in fact there is no threat er this is a civil war , strictly speaking , and th there 's no evidence that it would er sp spill over into a major war unless it was made a major war er by those er with the er forces that exist . |
| 8 | There have been many attacks on our society the trade used by taking our finances and yet , by their economic mistakes and profitization , we , the ordinary working people , pick up the bill . |
| 9 | Sinn Fein councillor Vincent Kelly claimed there have been several attempts to pressurise Mr Fox into working for British Intelligence . |
| 10 | He says there have been several instances in one council department where employees who are members of the Labour Party have been given temporary promotion . |
| 11 | Despite these technological advances there have been few developments in the method of communicating with the computer , which remains keyboard-based . |
| 12 | Since 1968–70 there have been more strikes than in the fifties and sixties , and more of them have been unofficial . |
| 13 | Er sure there have been some improvements in the materials that we use . |
| 14 | I mean , as councillor is aware in trying to move around this building there have been some changes in use of digital locks on some of the doors . |
| 15 | Just to add to what 's been said erm there , there have been some points raised er along the lines I 've mentioned and as a result of that erm it is felt that erm notification to members who are not on the application sub-committee of applications which affect their ward area could be improved and that is er I hope to be the subject of a report to the next meeting of the Application Sub-Committee , so that er matter i is something which is , which is being picked up and will be considered by that sub-committee but it does give me the opportunity to say that erm the definition of a complaint i is certainly not a precise one and I certainly would n't want members of this committee to feel that I was being complacent er as a result of there only being three complaints that we received . |
| 16 | There certainly have been many changes in both attitudes to women 's sexuality and in women 's sexual practices over the last few decades . |