Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Man with the Guinness ’ campaign was launched in the UK in 1987 and has since been successfully exported to Australia , Hong Kong , Singapore and Malaysia where different actors are used to reflect local culture and customs . |
| 2 | A fund-raising target of £3,000 initiated on 30 November to buy a specialised bed for the Douglas Macmillan Home was reached before the end of last year — and has since been significantly exceeded with money still coming in . |
| 3 | The threat has not only been partially thwarted by vehicle checkpoints but by close surveillance . |
| 4 | A frisson of concern ran through the staff when it was discovered that items have only been routinely fumigated against pathogens since the 1950s . |
| 5 | In Sweden , for example , the trade unions have long been well represented in government decision-making and have negotiated pay levels and labour practices much envied by their counterparts in other countries . |
| 6 | Yet the different types found on Jersey and Guernsey had long been well known in England , which had imported Jerseys ( under the Alderney name ) since at least 1789 . |
| 7 | In the result I have not been persuaded that any doubt has been cast upon principles which are soundly directed as being both desirable and reasonable and which furthermore have for long been firmly established by authority . |
| 8 | The bedrooms have all been individually redesigned with comfort in mind and offer the best in modern facilities with colour TV ( with satellite ) , telephone , radio and minibar combined with traditional elegance . |
| 9 | I am sure they had all been carefully checked by Heathcliff before they were posted . |
| 10 | I had this dreadful feeling that my journey to London and my meeting with this Frenchman had all been carefully managed by Cardinal Wolsey and his blackguard , Doctor Agrippa . |
| 11 | More often , however , the term was reserved for Delaunay and his disciples , Bruce , Frost , Sonia Delaunay and Alice Bailly , and for painters such as Picabia , Kupka and Duchamp who had all been originally classified as Cubists but whose work was becoming more abstract , although it had little or nothing to do with that of Delaunay . |
| 12 | It had obviously been recently decorated for Howarth 's arrival , and the pale grey-green carpet , with its matching square under the desk , was as yet unmarked , the curtains hung in pristine folds of dark green . |
| 13 | A new point that I would make , however , in many of those arguments which relate to the impossible , or alleged availability of additional windfall sites , and land on the inner greenbelt boundary , but I think the analysis which is er carried out is a simplistic one , because it solely relates to residential land requirements , there is no erm attempt to erm bring into the equation whether there is land available for the related employment necessary for that additional residential development , whether there is land available for schools , shops , and Mr Davis 's recreation uses , and so on , and all those will very considerably increase the amount of land required to be released to support residential development , wherever it is located , and that is something which I believe has not been properly taken into account . |
| 14 | Exercise Increasing expenditure of surplus calories through exercise and increasing metabolic rate has not been widely used in treatment strategies , although Cohen et al . |
| 15 | Kenya 's development has probably not been overly constrained by debt per se , though the strings tied to the loans have limited policy choice . |
| 16 | It would be surprising if less prosperous sections of the community had not been equally attacked by disease at this time , and casualties of that extent would certainly have set back any recovery of the population . |
| 17 | The risk can be reduced by flying in the low tow position below the wake , but it still has some disadvantages and towing in this position has not been generally adopted in Europe or elsewhere . |
| 18 | This method of judgement is relevant whenever tasks and their solutions have not been completely specified in advance . |
| 19 | They were in the ecclesiastical tradition which would have prevailed in the north if Wilfrid had not been forcibly installed at York by Theodore in place of Chad . |
| 20 | Wishart had Corbett watched carefully but all the reports indicated that Corbett had not been officially despatched by Edward . |
| 21 | Sir Frank also acknowledges that British ships had not been adequately defended against Exocet , and that there could not have been any control over its sale to third parties as British firms supplied only components . |
| 22 | The science of art , claims Kemp , has not been adequately appreciated by art historians and to begin to rectify the situation he strives to demonstrate that ‘ there were special kinds of affinity between the central intellectual and observational concerns in the visual arts and the sciences , in European history between the Renaissance and the nineteenth century ( p. 1 ) . |
| 23 | Prior to this Minton had not been altogether convinced by Freud 's painting , which he had tended to regard as cranky and a bit naïive . |
| 24 | The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development . |
| 25 | Though participants have said that they find these quizzes enjoyable , they have not been well supported by comparison with the more usual lectures and no further quiz is planned for the moment , though I shall try to keep a few questions in hand in case a speaker is delayed or fails to arrive for some reason . |
| 26 | He did so on two grounds : first , that the document had not been duly executed in accordance with the requirements of section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 , as substituted for the original section by section 17 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 ; and , secondly , that the deceased lacked testamentary capacity . |
| 27 | This had previously been organized by the police but had not been seriously updated for years . |
| 28 | But its uptake has not been popularly received in Britain . |
| 29 | But when the defendant appeared at the Bow Street Magistrates ' Court to answer an information that he had committed the offence under section 5(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1988 of driving with excess alcohol in the blood , he pleaded not guilty and at the close of the case for the prosecution a submission was made that he had no case to answer on the ground that the officer 's requirement at Vine Street Police Station that he provide a specimen of blood had not been validly made in accordance with section 7(4) . |
| 30 | Many factors may contribute to the increased incidence of large-vessel disease in diabetic patients , as in non-diabetic subjects ; however , the increased incidence in diabetics has not been fully explained in terms of known risk factors ( Jarrett et al , 1982 ) . |