Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there have been rather few cases which have addressed at all directly the question of the legality of the use of nuclear weapons , and even fewer judgments touching on this . |
| 2 | But there have been surprisingly few mergers and acquisitions . |
| 3 | have been here all day , wo n't she ? |
| 4 | The youngest of all have been here all morning , waddling in snow up to their arm-pits . |
| 5 | ‘ I know this because I have been here several times when I was younger . |
| 6 | The best players in the world have been here this week and it leaves me on a high note . ’ |
| 7 | All sorts of things seem to have happened while you have been away this time . ’ |
| 8 | Several regular players who have been away this week for work and holiday reasons need to be contacted so making the selection a last minute exercise . |
| 9 | There have been so many accidents on the M-40 , police have lost count of the number . |
| 10 | The route has been described to death and there have been so many accounts of the leading objects , I am inclined to be silent till I reach some spots where fewer pens have essayed to give to the world their portraiture , allowing the sketches engraved to leave my mite of tribute alike to the noble natural architecture of the Isle of Caves and the art treasures in the Isle of Ionic Crosses . |
| 11 | There have been so many thefts from Venetian churches over recent years ( see p.16 ) that , without custodians , the college of priests will be forced to recommend keeping most Venetian church doors closed . |
| 12 | There have been so many changes in education that even teachers find it hard to keep up — so professionals as well as parents will welcome the Parents ' Information Checklist , £4.50 from the Advisory Centre for Education , 1b Aberdeen Studios , 22/24 Highbury Grove , N5 2EA . |
| 13 | ‘ He has now got a new incentive at Forest where there have been so many changes . ’ |
| 14 | There have been so many taboos surrounding some kings that it has been difficult , if not impossible , to find anyone to be successor , for the taboos lead to total social isolation of the ruler . |
| 15 | We noted the omission of any mention of meat and asked her particularly about this , as there have been so many debates among anthropologists in recent years as to the origins of hunting and meat-eating . |
| 16 | ‘ There have been so many plans for the place and everything seems to fall through , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Since there have been so many hermaphrodite creatures in classical sculpture , I must admit that at times here I had to double check both top and bottom . |
| 18 | Besides , there have been so many opportunities for growth in countries that do not require local equity sharing that they have had little incentive to try to build businesses in those countries that do . |
| 19 | Well er as I say the position of the Parish Council the fact that there have been so many objections are fully reported in the committee papers today . |
| 20 | IT SICKENS me that hit records promoting the drug Ecstasy through hidden messages in the lyrics have been allowed when there have been so many deaths from it and now the hospitalisation of Flake model Rachel Brown . |
| 21 | ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted . |
| 22 | ‘ I have been trying to get the traders out for eight years , but there have been so many obstructions . ’ |
| 23 | Rarely can there have been so many upheavals in the landscape in so short a time . |
| 24 | There have been so few reading problems in the whole hundred-and-odd pages that the story has been free to come to life , you can see it all , enjoy it all : ‘ Dear Miss Blyton , I think your stories are really exciting ! ’ |
| 25 | Despite research into some aspects of the error propagation issue in spatial data processing ( e.g. Blakemore 1984 ; Chrisman 1984 ; Drummond 1987 ; Goodchild and Dubuc 1987 ; Walsh et al. 1987 ) , Burrough ( 1986:103 ) correctly points out that ‘ It is remarkable that there have been so few studies on the whole problem of residual variation and how errors arise , or are created and propagated in geographical information processing , and what the effects of these errors might be on the results of studies made . ’ |
| 26 | Evaluation of the McClellan system is difficult because there have been so few opportunities to see it in operation . |
| 27 | There have been relatively few studies of modern cultural institutions outside the dominant fields of press and broadcasting , but on cinema see Mayer ( 1948 ) and on more recent approaches see Albrecht , Barnett and Griff ( 1970 ) . |
| 28 | There have been relatively few books written by senior officers of ‘ the other side ’ , and this certainly provides a commentary that will interest historians of the 1939–1945 air war . |
| 29 | They have been together all day . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Exhausting physical effort , excessive heat , hazardous safety and health conditions have been far less points of attention ( and redress ) than in the American steel industry , and at least straight-time workers endure a high measure of personal … coercion ( speed-up in one word ) by supervision ’ ( Herding , 1972 , pp. 329–30 ) . |