Example sentences of "been [noun] of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been talk of sending me to a special school , but my family were not ready to accept such an open acknowledgment of my disability , and the excuse was again made about academic standards . |
| 2 | For years there has been talk of building a road and railway along the shore to link Aswan with Wadi Halfa , the first town inside Sudan . |
| 3 | There had been talk of meeting for a drink in the evening , but the talk had taken place at five in the morning as Kelly was hurriedly slipping into her clothes and now Nick seemed to have forgotten . |
| 4 | There is sufficient pasture now for up to 3000 sheep , and there has been talk of introducing a Scottish blackface flock . |
| 5 | Even before the crisis there had been talk of fielding a Popular Front candidate in Oxford . |
| 6 | Right , Harold 's been sort of trying to have a look at it all week long , but he 's , he has n't really got time . |
| 7 | and having been sort of helping |
| 8 | Something I 've been sort of working on , sort of . ’ |
| 9 | I mean they 've all been sort of saying oh well you know it 's ridiculous to take him , let him play his panto and then sort of just join |
| 10 | that 's what I thought , I was n't quite sure , I just wanted I 'd been sort of going through various things , and I want I 'd wanted to make absolutely sure |
| 11 | Ian 's been sort of talking about all sorts of strange things in his sleep and |
| 12 | so she said while you 've been doing that she said she 's been sort of gassing to anybody you know , so she said it 's been mentioned by management and they said oh well she 'll be able to sort of hovering while she stood there you know , time , time to natter she could be erm , got time to do that . |
| 13 | It acknowledged that all Noricum 's weapons sales to Argentina , Brazil , Bulgaria , Jordan , Libya , Poland and Thailand , had been means of providing Iran and Iraq with arms and could have been prevented , particularly if Gratz had had the destination certificates examined . |
| 14 | During the summer there had been reports of rising tension in the area , and on 30 August a crowd demonstrated outside Toxteth Police Station and then attacked police cars and the station itself . |
| 15 | Baker denied that the situation in the Gagauz and Dnestr regions would create a problem in establishing diplomatic relations between the USA and Moldova , although at the beginning of February there had been reports of fighting between Dnestr separatists and Moldovan police . |
| 16 | There have long been rumours of putting bolts on Bosigran routes where the belays are difficult to arrange . |