Example sentences of "[ex0] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were first warned , I did n't really pay much attention to what was being said about it — the same problem had flared up at both Jersey House and the hotel I 'd just left but in neither case had there been prolonged cause for concern . |
| 2 | Had BR had more time and more funding , had the government been more sympathetic towards the railway investment and had there been no recession , the APT might have eventually been successful — but that is another story . |
| 3 | Has there been such a restoration , since 1920 ? |
| 4 | Never before had there been so savage a fiscal squeeze ; not since the thirties had there been a comparable increase in unemployment , now approaching 3 million . |
| 5 | Never before had there been so savage a fiscal squeeze ; not since the thirties had there been a comparable increase in unemployment , now approaching 3 million . |
| 6 | 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 ? ’ |
| 7 | Nor had there been any sort of cultural rethink sufficient to justify the confidence American companies were now placing in British filmmakers . |
| 8 | Only now has there been a concerted effort to abandon the tyranny of the object and the sickness of naturalism to enter within consciousness . ’ |
| 9 | Has there been anyone , Lillee or Holding or Marshall to match him since ? |
| 10 | Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it . |
| 11 | Never before has there been such open abuse of power by those who are supposed to set standards for the people . |
| 12 | Nor has there been any direct challenge to the chairman . |
| 13 | One senior official of the European Commission said recently that , had there been a common Community defence policy , it would have committed forces to the Gulf . |
| 14 | There was naturally much rejoicing in Britain that the worm was turning in 1989–90 , but there would have been more had there been a spinner or two in the team . |
| 15 | Nor had there been any talk of her — that she looked ill , or had been ill — nothing at all . |
| 16 | Can we imagine , for instance , that rulers could effectively have articulated their image through Christ , had there been no religious feeling in society as a whole to which appeal could be made , when they projected the Christ-image of rule ? |
| 17 | Has there been time ? |
| 18 | Nor have there been any informal jolly gatherings when the daily toil of pressing the flesh is over : Mr Kinnock wandering back among the press party , glass of whisky in hand , letting his ( metaphorical ) hair down a little , tipping us just the hint of a wink that this is all just a great game . |
| 19 | Have there been hung parliaments before ? |
| 20 | ‘ Yet nowhere has there been a guide to their identification . ’ |
| 21 | Never before had there been as many as nine of his members in a Masters field and every one of them made the cut . |
| 22 | Has there been any investigation as to what the potential users want from the system ? |
| 23 | Saner , Engineer to the Weaver Navigation , in his report to the Royal Commission on Inland Navigations in 1906 mentions Foxton Lift and its costly foundations , which might have been greatly reduced had the subsoil been of a nature or had there been available experience such as that gained in the course of the project . |
| 24 | ‘ Have there been any reports of missing children ? ’ he demanded . |
| 25 | At no time had there been any hint that France should try to benefit from the British embarrassment during this critical period , though the press published sharp attacks on the British policy of reprisals after the Mutiny was over . |
| 26 | Nor has there been sufficiently critical evaluation of programmes to screen for some diseases , he believes . |
| 27 | Nor has there been much change in the pattern of support from the family . |
| 28 | On talking to parents , we were told that had there been a suitable provision in their own country they would not be in Budapest . |
| 29 | Had there been more ? |
| 30 | ‘ Look here , Stevens , have there been any — well — signs at all ? |