Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Objection may also be taken to the new offences on the ground that rape has arguably been substantially downgraded as a crime where aggravating factors do not exist . |
| 2 | In the same way , the ‘ Observer ’ , which acclaimed ‘ an evening of theatrical magic ’ , was the ‘ Quantock Observer ’ ; and the ‘ Mail ’ , who had ‘ rarely been so entertained ’ was the ‘ Western Mail ’ . |
| 3 | As Meisel observes correctly , merely to state that the number of those who hold power in any given society is fewer than those who do not , is to state a truism which has rarely been sensibly denied , but which explains little . |
| 4 | Occasional collective efforts by prisoners to improve their lot have mostly been sharply put down . |
| 5 | Much of it was of the Louis XIV period ( which has a much more limited market than Louis XVI furniture ) , and in contrast to the freshness of the Patiño lots , had mostly been recently bought at high prices . |
| 6 | In addition , the semantic analyser has since been successfully applied to other text recognition applications ( notably OCR systems ) . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Outside and below the four official castes there existed the outcasts or untouchables ( eta or hinin ) , a sizeable group , who , while racially Japanese , had long since been strictly segregated from the remainder of society . |
| 9 | These assessments have since been largely discredited . |
| 10 | In Gabon halofantrine came on the market three years ago and has since been widely used . |
| 11 | The STJ reported that " the small section [ i.e. the women 's breakaway union ] as has since been openly admitted , was formed and organised under a " West End " [ of Edinburgh ] suffragette banner … |
| 12 | In the 1850s a wing was added to the house ( which has since been neatly demolished ) , with twenty-two bedrooms . |
| 13 | He has since been well cared for by Huyton officers . |
| 14 | Moreover , a number of materials developed by the project have since been commercially published and are in use in Nigeria . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It has since been retrospectively enlarged , going back to 1754 for North America , and progressively completing coverage for other countries , particularly European geology . |
| 17 | It has since been retrospectively enlarged , going back to 1754 for North America , and progressively completing coverage for other countries , particularly European geology . |
| 18 | And Mr Howard Brown ’ ( Morse hesitated ) ‘ has given a full and fairly satisfactory account of his own whereabouts that afternoon , an account which has since been substantially corroborated . ’ |
| 19 | The original building of the Hotel Lapershoek dates back to the early 20th century when it was a grand stately home , and it has since been thoughtfully converted in to a very comfortable four star hotel . |
| 20 | The group lost £1.368m last year and has since been radically slimmed down to three operating subsidiaries — banking , a Channel Islands fiduciary management business and NSR . |
| 21 | Palermo Cathedral , begun in 1135 , is the largest of the Norman royal buildings on the island but it has since been much altered . |
| 22 | This is the argument of Epicurus the Greek , whose teachings have since been much corrupted . |
| 23 | I am glad to say that this act of faith has since been amply rewarded and the blazer 's fit is perfect . |
| 24 | Further downstream is Flaxley Mill which , by the 1950s , was in a poor state of repair , but has since been fully restored , now forming the headquaters of an electronics company . |
| 25 | ‘ Therefore my purpose in this book , ’ he writes , ‘ is not to state conclusions but , like a radio interviewer , to ask why and what and how , and thus to re-open a file that has perhaps been prematurely closed . ’ |
| 26 | On the basis of tests carried out in the North Sea by the Laboratory , Bayne believes that organic pollutants may be having a greater impact on marine life than heavy metals such as lead , mercury and cadmium , which had hitherto been widely blamed for most of the damage . |
| 27 | Wagner 's role in the genesis of B T has not hitherto been accurately defined . |
| 28 | I shall , however , be content for the purpose of this appeal to adopt the narrow approach , which avoids the need to discuss the proper scope of the rule , a point which has not been argued before your Lordships and has hitherto been seriously discussed only by the academic writers . |
| 29 | What they are supposed to do has suddenly been widely perceived as a necessary and valuable commercial asset , bringing substantial profits to UK market leaders NEC , Panasonic and Canon . |
| 30 | A workman who put the goal posts up said they had only been temporarily secured . |