Example sentences of "been [det] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had helped to pick up all the things spilt from the bag , but there had been that look in her eye just before — a familiar look , contempt , indifferently hidden . |
| 2 | It may have been that while in Japan he found the taste of humble pie just a little too much to stomach . |
| 3 | There has been little development in style since the 1920s though the range of materials has increased . |
| 4 | In previous elections there has been little change in the parties ' support between the final Sunday of the campaign and polling day . |
| 5 | But most of the changes that did occur took place over 1950–70 ; since the latter year there appears to have been little change in the relative positions of the different republics and provinces in social product per head . |
| 6 | He had been discharged but a year later there had been little change in his weight . |
| 7 | There has been little change in the combined market share of the six national brewers owning more than 2,000 pubs since February 1989 . |
| 8 | According to the Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys , there has been little change in breast-feeding patterns in the last decade . |
| 9 | Unlike the issue of sterling there would seem to have been little choice in the line of action to be followed . |
| 10 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 11 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 12 | In August 1989 William J. Bennett , the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy , had called for the government " aggressively [ to ] implement " random testing of federal workers , but by January 1990 there had been little increase in the numbers tested due to litigation . |
| 13 | There has , therefore , been little chance in the past for a political growth of class consciousness among subordinate groups . |
| 14 | However , although the Education Act 1981 shifted the emphasis in education from handicap to special educational need , based on assessment of curriculum requirement rather than on the child 's disability , there has been little progress in the integration of the handicapped in education . |
| 15 | There has been little progress in reaching agreement on harmonising excise duties , and serious negotiations on this issue are not due to commence until early in 1992 . |
| 16 | Nevertheless there has been little interest in exploring for Zechstein gas in the North Sea and the test results so far encountered have been very discouraging . |
| 17 | There had been little luxury in their lives in contrast to Spiro 's second family , who enjoyed the best of everything . |
| 18 | There has been little research in most of the United Kingdom into the relative effects of social class on achievement under the tripartite and comprehensive systems . |
| 19 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 20 | There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years . |
| 21 | For example , there may have been little point in devising an ‘ inner area ’ and allocating resources to it . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) Some of the express provisions of section 10(9) — for example paragraphs ( c ) and ( d ) ( i ) — as to the matters to which the court is to have particular regard in deciding an application for leave to apply for a section 8 order would be otiose if the whole application were subject to the overriding provisions of section 1(1). ( 3 ) There would have been little point in Parliament providing that the court was to have particular regard to the wishes and feelings of the child 's parent , if the whole decision were to be subject to the overriding ( paramount ) consideration of the child 's welfare . |
| 23 | They have been so pervasive and so self-evident that there has been little point in articulating them . |
| 24 | Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there . |
| 25 | There has been little pattern in the movements of the 23,000 miners who were ‘ relocated ’ from mines throughout the country . |
| 26 | It should not be forgotten that hazards themselves have geographical distributions yet there has been little effort in the UK to develop public domain databases . |
| 27 | Despite rapid advances in computer technology in the last three decades , there have been few changes in the methods by which communication with computers is achieved . |
| 28 | In parish churches , however , there was a long period of stagnation , although there were improvements in standards and taste , and until the time of Vatican II there had been few developments in the Liturgy and its music . |
| 29 | Despite these technological advances there have been few developments in the method of communicating with the computer , which remains keyboard-based . |
| 30 | There is , therefore , a strong case for funding of melanoma surveillance programmes or clinics aimed at facilitating early diagnosis for individuals with atypical naevi , especially given that , despite intensive research , there have been few advances in the management of melanoma that has spread beyond the primary site . |