Example sentences of "been [art] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the 180 TEU Annika , there has been no less than five different vessels involved in servicing this route , each one providing a larger carrying capacity than its predecessor . |
| 2 | The waste is a small perquisite that hath been granted us for several hundred years past , which we are able to prove by our ancient Books of Record , which have been no less than 14 or 15 times ratified and confirmed at the General Quarter Sessions . |
| 3 | At times there has been no less than five organisations conducting investigations into cases : the Department of Trade and Industry , the Securities and Investments Board , the Financial Intermediaries Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association , the Serious Fraud Office and the Metropolitan Police fraud squad . |
| 4 | He could have been no more than seven years-old . |
| 5 | The boy amid the ruins could have been no more than 12 years old and he looked at us with genuine disinterest , sitting on a broken office swivel chair in the middle of rue Trablos , scruffy brown hair on top of a tired , old face . |
| 6 | The eldest , who had unwashed brown hair and could have been no more than ten or eleven years old , was holding an automatic rifle in his arms . |
| 7 | He turned to see a little girl , who could have been no more than seven or eight , sitting on the doorstep . |
| 8 | 11 , everything happening in the present case has been no more than one stage in a continuing contest between the prosecutor and the applicant in a matter which from the outset has been exclusively criminal in nature . |
| 9 | ‘ The young man could have been no more than sixteen summers , olive-skinned and with black hair . |
| 10 | It might have been no more than two or three days . |
| 11 | This winter , average aquifer replenishment has been no more than 15 per cent of normal . |
| 12 | Furthermore , for the past fifty years there has been a more or less perpetual state of international crisis , with America constantly involved as a leading player . |
| 13 | In retrospect , what Essays in Criticism seems to have represented was the institutional absorption after the War of the so-called " critical revolution " of the interwar period , and the professionalisation of what had previously been a more or less oppositional movement within the academy . |
| 14 | Like the Edwardians , the Mods assumed what had been an exclusively and outrageously homosexual style and used it as a key to cross into the ‘ private ’ space of the body and of self-discovery ; unlike their forebears , they were far more intimately involved with black culture , from the new black music of the Tamla and Sue labels , to the ‘ bluebeat ’ clubs that were opening , as an index of Britain 's more visible black community . |