Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [been] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The activities described so far have been concerned with periodically recurring factors relating to corporate planning and monitoring of results as part of functional management . |
| 2 | The bulk of this book so far has been concerned with looking at what happens when people lose something . |
| 3 | Research so far has been concerned with one segment of A , catalogue use . |
| 4 | A lot of our discussion so far has been concerned with this kind of " saying " , but I have purposely avoided introducing any of the technical jargon of semiotics ( the theory of signs ) and this is now leading me into difficulty because the ordinary use of words in social anthropological discourse is crudely imprecise . |
| 5 | The majority of the discussion so far has been concerned with the assessment of children 's artistic rather than their aesthetic development . |
| 6 | This particular example demonstrated a common pitfall of this kind of positivist criminology : even if all the possessors of the chromosomal anomaly had turned out to be persistent criminals ( in the event , they did not ) then it would still only have been capable of ‘ explaining ’ a fraction of 1 per cent of recorded crime , simply because the condition was so rare . |
| 7 | Sister Marie was a teacher for 20 years , and a provincial of the Loreto sisters for 12 years , and more recently has been involved in pastoral care in the prison service at Strangeways and Risley . |
| 8 | N F U and C LA could surely not have been oblivious of the fact that this shortage was one which farmers and landowners , in their role as councillors , had been responsible for creating . |
| 9 | Pietro Miletti gave a short laugh that sounded unpleasantly arrogant and mocking , although it might equally well have been nervous in origin . |
| 10 | The creoles ' desire for office , economic freedom , and free trade could never perhaps have been satisfied within the static Spanish theory of imperialism . |
| 11 | The ‘ meaning ’ of the dream seems therefore not to have been implicit in the dream itself but to have come from the interaction between its imagery and Stevenson 's consciously controlled imagination — ‘ All the rest was made awake … ’ |