Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The York cycle was first revived during the Festival of Britain in 1951 and has since been performed every four years as part of York Festival . |
| 2 | He had perhaps been expecting a tougher comment and he hunched his shoulders , muttering suspiciously , ‘ I have n't got no religion . ’ |
| 3 | Cow 's milk allergy has hitherto been considered a temporary condition that improves or disappears with age . |
| 4 | Following the October general election , John Malecela , a former high commissioner to the United Kingdom , was appointed Prime Minister on Nov. 8 , replacing Joseph Warioba , who had hitherto been considered an eventual successor to President Ali Hassan Mwinyi . |
| 5 | After all , he 's only been experiencing the outside world since his vaccination course was completed a few weeks ago . |
| 6 | Criticism arrangement and pointed out that William Hay had only been elected the first DUP mayor after being nominated for the fifth time . |
| 7 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 8 | ‘ But , ’ she had said suddenly , ‘ I have only been ordering a dozen geranium plants . ’ |
| 9 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 10 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 11 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
| 12 | Now what I would like Mr Alistaire and the rest of the Scottish M P's is to bring up in parliament a Scotland will have to be revalued every five years as done in the past where England have only been revalued every seventeen years , which I think is most unfair . |
| 13 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
| 14 | Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware . |
| 15 | The Russian panslavist press had long been advocating a Franco-Russian alliance and in November 1887 Bismarck had forbidden the Reichsbank to float a Russian loan . |
| 16 | Eliot had long been accumulating the anthropological knowledge which would affect the literature of his own future . |
| 17 | The divine has long been made an intimate participant in male experiences of violence , in war and in political martyrdom . |
| 18 | As no man can serve two masters we had long been told no wise general tries to fight on two fronts . |
| 19 | Histamine has long been considered a putative mediator of the gastric acid secretory response to ethanol . |
| 20 | Like the good gossip he was , he had merely been marshalling the various elements of his anecdote to their best advantage . |
| 21 | Since Dysart too had been to Oxford , it was possible that by taking Morpurgo on at Tyler 's Hard he had merely been doing an old chum a favour . |
| 22 | This whole question is of importance not only because it was so central to Engels 's book but also because The Origin has rightly been considered a major contribution to the feminist tradition . |
| 23 | Yet the large majority of our teenagers said they had not been taught the practical realities of avoiding AIDS until they were at least 15 . |
| 24 | In 1912 Eleanor Barton , a spokeswoman for the WCG ( albeit herself middle class ) , voiced the opinion that ‘ women suffer a great deal through their husbands ’ sensuality , and that is more evident amongst working people than other classes , simply because the conditions of life lend themselves to that sort of thing , and they have not been taught the proper uses of their bodies ' . |
| 25 | Although clearance under s138 is advisable , it is not essential to the operation of s135 , though some tax inspectors seem to assume that where clearance has not been obtained the anti-avoidance provision in s137 will automatically apply to deny capital gains tax deferral . |
| 26 | Certainly , this has not been yielding the same profits as four years ago , but the Japanese are not entirely absent from the sale rooms nonetheless , even though more often in order to sell than to buy . |
| 27 | In many ways this was a sensible policy since even if Danzig had not been made a Free City and had remained within the long arm of Prussia , the local economy was too poor to maintain it for long ; a German Danzig would still have been forced to rely upon a distant Vistula hinterland . |
| 28 | Perhaps if he had not been created a cardinal deacon he would have stayed in Bologna longer . |
| 29 | Unmet need was said to exist where there was a care option which had not been given a recent trial and had not been recently refused by the client . |
| 30 | Broadly , the survey confirmed that parents of children with special needs had not been given a real choice of placement , and that they had to fight hard for mainstream provision if this was their choice . |