Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] been [verb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my own thank-offering I would like to try briefly to express some thoughts on education by which I have long been troubled and to which no place , for reasons which I will show , could be more appropriate than this . |
| 2 | I know that enthusiastic palaeontologists in several countries have claimed pieces of this missing record , but the claims have all been disputed and in any case do not provide real connections . |
| 3 | Many innocent lives have already been lost because of people like him . |
| 4 | There are varying estimates of the amount of the world 's tropical forests that have already been removed and at what rate deforestation is proceeding . |
| 5 | And apparently a colleague of mine gave a paper this morning saying that Kent was vulnerable to earthquakes erm even though earthquakes have not been recorded or at least not substantial ones in this country for perhaps two , three hundred years erm there is a history of earthquakes in , particularly in the sort of Colchester , Essex , Kent region , and erm the erm the historians and the pundits tell us that erm they may come back again so perhaps we ought to reinforce our buildings now . |
| 6 | Sadly , these calls have not been heeded because in the United Kingdom this has been seen as a party political issue instead of an important pointer to priorities for action . |
| 7 | Old stags and hinds and young calves numbers have not been cut as in the past by the cold climate . |
| 8 | However , they have not been briefed that in this case the drop zone will be changed at the last minute . |
| 9 | In 1974 , Lubans observed that ‘ instructional programmes in all types of libraries have been infrequently evaluated , their need and effect have not been measured except in a few isolated cases ’ . |
| 10 | PCs have generally been used because of the cost of procurement and because they are more readily available within the Service . |
| 11 | These terms have traditionally been studied because of their role in cognitive development . |
| 12 | Promotion opportunities have also been restricted and in the competition for higher status positions , personal merit evaluation is now given greater weight in determining pay and position . |
| 13 | Scientific theories have often been cherished when in the eyes of their critics they ought to have perished . |
| 14 | If there were originally regional differences in surface composition then these have now been lost because of the widespread scattering of impact ejecta and because of any other processes that can transport material over large distances . |
| 15 | No decisions have yet been made as to pricing , but O'Connell says ACT intended to make it as easy for existing customers as possible . |
| 16 | The Vulcans have recently been withdrawn because of their age . |
| 17 | Criticisms have recently been raised as to the increasingly short-term investment attitude of venture capital funds in the UK . |