Example sentences of "been [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 These bonds , subtler and more difficult to observe and interpret , have been most extensively studied in the experimental herd of Camargue horses at Tour du Valat .
2 Form criticism has been most profitably used in the psalms and has revolutionized our understanding of them .
3 This philosophy finds expression in some recent social thought and has been most notably promulgated in the area of social services , producing on the far right a philosophy of welfare in which the care of family members is increasingly seen as a private problem , to be undertaken using family resources only , and to be underpinned only in extreme circumstances by a residual network of statutory services .
4 That is what happened in late March to Vrej Baghoomian , whose gallery , a virtual airplane hangar in SoHo , had been most closely associated with the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat .
5 The technique has been most widely applied in the analysis of cytokine responses .
6 Not surprisingly , these developments have been most widely exploited among the developed countries where the barriers to integration have been least .
7 Their work can be seen as a range of attempts to deal with a shared set of problems which have perhaps been most clearly formulated by the greatest among them — by Bloch and Febvre ( the founders of the journal ) in the first generation , by Braudel in the second , and more recently by Le Roy Ladurie .
8 Such variety has been most clearly appreciated with the restoration of damaged mosaics , e.g. the Orpheus mosaic , Littlecote , Wilts. , or in the reconstruction of buried ones , e.g. the Woodchester Orpheus mosaic .
9 It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) .
10 Equally , stagnation in the housing market has been most severely felt in the south east .
11 The group that has been most adversely affected under the new scheme is the unemployed under the age of twenty-five .
12 They have been most recently espoused by the hon. Member for Clackmannan , who is not even a member of the shadow Cabinet .
13 To quote Bethe : ‘ It is difficult to describe to a non-scientist the novelty of the new concept … it was to me , who had been rather closely associated with the programme , about as surprising as the discovery of fission had been to physicists in 1939 . ’
14 The membership remained largely moribund until the First World War , although the title of the union had been somewhat pretentiously changed to the National Agricultural Labourers ' and Rural Workers ' Union ( N A L R W U ) in 1912 .
15 For candidates with a more generalist knowledge , the market has remained very depressed in London and the South East , while the North has been less badly hit by the recession .
16 Communists improved only slightly on the vote of 1929 , when they had fought under less favourable conditions but had been less fully committed to the " social fascist " position .
17 It was thus able to draw on the large reservoir of latent discontent among Liberals and the intellectuals which had been only slightly touched by the problem of unemployment and which was completely cut off from the syndicalist traditions of working class militancy in the previous decade .
18 Erm we have produced a study pack which has been extremely well used within the church erm and is still being extremely well used .
19 Well , time moves on and Maxwell rose from the ashes of this setback , but it is remarkable that the telling verdict of the DTI inquiry should have been so utterly dismissed by the risk-assessors of so many banks .
20 Even had you not been so well acquainted with the family , I dare say .
21 Indeed , the speaker would go further ; never in his experience had Britain been so ably represented in the councils of the Common Market .
22 The very success of material culture studies in having been so firmly integrated into the older paradigm meant that such studies become invalidated by their own historical associations , and were no longer able to play a significant role in the new anthropology .
23 Never before had events within Scotland been so firmly set on the international stage .
24 Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all .
25 Prospective Labour MP for the town Alan Milburn said : ‘ Hundreds of people have been forced into dire straits because the town has been so badly hit by the Government inspired economic slump ’
26 Nowhere had a traditional culture 's response to the Western world been so completely reflected in the life of its railways and stations .
27 And yet , although Lloyd George was the author of the Free City proposals , they were approved by the Americans and the French , and had the Poles not been so heavily engaged against the Soviets by this time , they might still have attempted to seize Danzig by force — there was certainly little the Germans could have done to prevent such a move .
28 He was still walking within the rhythmic pulse of an old dream , a vision that had been so wantonly interrupted by the person from Porlock .
29 First of all , there was the problem that had been at the root of France 's defeat in 1940 — the decay of the republican state , which had been so powerfully symbolized by the Third Republic 's abdication to Pétain in July 1940 .
30 Its influence must have been very considerable for the boy to have been so successfully supported for the kingship against an adult rival .
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