Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , maintaining professional standards has arguably never been more important . |
| 2 | The self-governing dynamo at Jimmy 's has so far been strongly medical . |
| 3 | At the same time , the Tory-voting lobby in the country areas of southern England has so far been very effective in resisting the relaxation of planning controls . |
| 4 | Shares rose sharply at the beginning of the year in anticipation of an economic rebound , but the recovery has so far been very sluggish . |
| 5 | It is not that she 's a political animal , just someone who has seen a lot of beautiful places in the world ; feels very fortunate to be in such a privileged position because of her successful TV and recording career , and so wants to put a bit back into a world which has so far been very kind to her . ’ |
| 6 | I do my own servicing which has so far been fairly straightforward . |
| 7 | This thinking has apparently not been overly concerned with the argument that from that point on it would be not so much what went on in Britain as what happened in Germany which would count most ( a phenomenon clearly illustrated by the chart in Appendix 2 ) . |
| 8 | However , official statistics suggest that mobility has not recently been conspicuously higher in Japan than in other industrialized countries , especially since access to good education has too often depended on wealth and background . |
| 9 | The fact that no powerfully theoretical recreation geography has emerged , however , should not be seen as a defeat for the subject , for the empirical work that has been produced has not only been very useful in its own right , but has also shown a significant mismatch between leisure aspirations and recreational resources . |
| 10 | In the past , such building work has not always been completely destructive , but modern techniques of construction usually require deep foundations , totally destroying any underlying sites . |
| 11 | In opera , the Mariinsky has not always been so illustrious , but in recent times , particularly under the directorship of Valery Gergiev , standards have risen beyond recognition . |
| 12 | There has probably never been more choice for places in which you can invest than now . |
| 13 | The humble raisin has been around for at least 2,000 years , but it has n't always been very popular — particularly in the US where novelty is all when it comes to food . |
| 14 | But it has n't always been so welcoming . |
| 15 | The place here has n't always been so welcoming , believe me . |
| 16 | Life has n't always been so dull for Elaine : she has managed , in the past , to survive the same upheavals as many able-bodied people . |
| 17 | Lady Thatcher has n't always been so welcome in the hallowed halls , eight years ago she was refused an honorary doctorate by Oxford University as a protest against her attitude to education . |
| 18 | Historically , the American police has almost certainly been more violent and corrupt than its British counterpart . |
| 19 | It has never before been more important to incorporate informed legal advice into corporate decision making . |
| 20 | The ‘ epidemic delusion ’ of Pantisocratic brotherhood had perhaps never been more powerful than at that moment , life on the banks of the Susquehannah never a more siren prospect , and a conversation which began by Coleridge asking Sarah if she would write to him when he returned to Cambridge led quickly to a proposal of marriage , which she accepted . |
| 21 | Ruth had the feeling that he was desperately trying to inject a bit of life into the party and she felt guilty that she , for one , had so far been very dull company . |
| 22 | She recognised that her son had not always been as attentive as expected towards his wife or the children and that he spent too much time with friends like Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 23 | It had not always been as bad as in the past year or two , but this is not uncommon as-any form of fear or negativity feeds upon itself as time goes by . |
| 24 | Egypt had not always been so welcoming . |
| 25 | She had a tin of photographs which she would browse through , reminding herself that life had not always been so humdrum . |
| 26 | Partly because it was increasing in numbers ; more particularly because it was seeking to gain a foothold in the rural parishes which had thus far been largely impervious to its appeal and especially because , in the era of the French Revolution , anything which seemed to pose a threat to the Church of England established by law was suspect . |
| 27 | Even when he was older and realized that the nursing home had probably not been as bad as his childishly fastidious senses remembered it and that , anyway , she could not have afforded anything better , he was still unable to forgive her . |
| 28 | ‘ And nor would I , ’ she said slowly , ‘ if you had n't all been so kind . ’ |
| 29 | I 've had tremendous support in carrying them through , and had there not been this unforeseen event , I would certainly have been expecting to , and looking forward to , carrying on doing that for quite a considerable time , but I am sure that Kenneth Clarke will carry the same reforms forward with equal gusto . |
| 30 | I 've actually never been as fit in my life before , I 've been erm you know , down the gym training erm every day and erm really sort of putting some hard work in and erm you know , I 'm in great shape . |