Example sentences of "'s [been] this " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Why is it , do you think , that there 's been this incredible reaction to Phar Lap 's death ? ’ asks the reporter : ‘ After all , he was just a horse . ’
2 Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively .
3 Yeah but I mean the times I 've seen her it 's been this end of town rather than that end of town .
4 Yeah , I was gon na give you a ring to say it 's been this way , pick them up
5 I mean obviously this is nothing new , obviously there 's been this sort of thing for some time in the past , but I think what we 've got to ask ourselves is ‘ what sort of a society are we now reaping ? ’
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