Example sentences of "has [pron] [been] [det] " in BNC.

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1 has she been any better this woman cos she was always on about her , and she said no , she said I went to higher authorities about it , is that it ?
2 Has there been such a restoration , since 1920 ?
3 Never before has there been such open abuse of power by those who are supposed to set standards for the people .
4 Never before has there been such a catalogue of successive shocks and scandals in the Royal Family , culminating now in the separation of Charles and Diana .
5 ‘ Never has there been such a farce ’
6 Never has there been such a sporting farce over a straightforward issue : Was the ball out of shape through natural causes ( Law 5.5 ) or had it been damaged deliberately ( Law 42.5 ) ?
7 Why has there been such a history of cross-dressing in films ?
8 Why has there been such a lamentable delay in the implementation of the RENAVAL programme ?
9 Not since 1949 has there been such a chance to abolish blood sports and just 13 absent MPs blew it .
10 Nor has there been much change in the pattern of support from the family .
11 Why has there been much unemployment in Glasgow and Clydeside during the last 50 years ?
12 The cyclotron was a research facility through into the 1980s , but was an expensive and remarkable piece of equipment to have appeared in the 1950s in a country where , neither before nor since , has there been much cash for anything scientific .
13 At no time in history has there been more opportunity for a middle-class person to rise , yet , at the same time , the possibility of falling to great depths has similarly increased .
14 Nor has there been any direct challenge to the chairman .
15 Has there been any investigation as to what the potential users want from the system ?
16 Nor has there been any discussion of the growing requirement in the UK ( as elsewhere ) to carry out an environmental impact assessment for all major developments .
17 With the recent mainstream success of a number of blues albums — John Lee Hooker 's , for instance , and Gary Moore 's — has there been any let-up in the record company pressure on Robert Cray to widen his commercial appeal ?
18 Has there been any further deterioration in the situation ? ’
19 Not since Macherey 's A Theory of Literary Production of 1966 has there been any fundamental theoretical innovation .
20 Neither has there been any work relating the relaxation of currency controls and the establishment of convertibility within the European Payments Union to changes in the volume and pattern of foreign trade .
21 If Leeds are going to buy Elland Road from the Council , has there been any talking about private buying shares ?
22 Only recently has there been some serious debate within multiculturalism about the issues involved , although with very little guidance on how teachers are to approach and facilitate discussion around the inevitable questions which arise regarding the evaluation of different cultural representations , know ledges and practices .
23 In practice the question therefore resolves itself into : Has there been enough time for enough successive generations ?
24 You may ask me then : ‘ Why do n't we do just that ? why has there been this passionate search for some other method of preventing the fall in the value of money or controlling the fall in the value of money , if a cause and perhaps the major cause is undisputed , assessable and obvious ? ’
25 Has it been much of a problem on the flats ?
26 If it 's true and he is alive where has he been all this time ?
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