Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of its board directors have also taken on additional responsibilities and have duly been retitled group executive directors . |
| 2 | Before he left for Lincoln College on 14 October '98 , Helen was peremptorily given a week 's notice by Mrs Andrews who had secretly been reading Edward 's letters and now accused Helen of ‘ illicit connexion ’ with him . |
| 3 | The domination of the cinema screen over the audience has also resulted in experiments with ‘ smell-o-vision ’ , but so far we have thankfully been spared Aldous Huxley 's vision of ‘ the feelies ’ . |
| 4 | It was bordered by Rat Lane which has since been renamed Norway Lane after Neville Shute Norway , the famous author and aircraft engineer who founded the Airspeed Company here . |
| 5 | The battalion , which had operated in Namibia and Angola , was composed largely of Angolan rebels who had fought in the Angolan civil war , and also a number of white mercenaries ; its members had since been given South African citizenship . |
| 6 | Murray Holmes , the BDA 's present Vice-Chairman took his place , and has since been elected Vice-President of an the World Federation . |
| 7 | Some have since been paid compensation . |
| 8 | Such license had effectively been denied Galileo who , by his friend Ciampoli , had been advised to suppress remarks that might imply extraterrestrial life : Would they not invite awkward questions such as how descendants of Adam and Eve could have reached the moon ? |
| 9 | I 'd rather been hoping Lewis or Verity might have asked me what the file contained by now , and what I was doing , but — annoyingly — neither of them had . |
| 10 | I think it was really because Paul felt that everything was going really well with the partnership board , and he 'd been erm putting a lot of work in with people like erm from Scarborough , and John and er other people who are on the board , but he 'd rather been neglecting building up a really good working relationship with N Y T E C. |
| 11 | Amnesty , denounced by Wijeratne in 1990 as a " terrorist organization " , had hitherto been denied access to Sri Lanka , most recently at the height of the JVP insurgency in 1989 [ for December 1989 , September 1990 Amnesty reports see pp. 37353 ; 37711 ] . |
| 12 | Prosecutors may feel that in serious cases of what has hitherto been threatening conduct under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5 might be proceeded against as affrays . |
| 13 | Well in the main lobbyist has been Ron who 's the who 's our elected campaigns officers and he 's quite literally been spending time treading the the hallowed halls of Westminster |
| 14 | He knew nothing of her trip to Bath , and supposed she had only been to visit Liddy . |
| 15 | ‘ Look , ’ Simon said impatiently , ‘ so far there have only been passing mentions of me in the papers , but when I become famous the media interest will soar . |
| 16 | Once again the solicitor representing them said that there was not and that his clients had put him in difficulties , as he had only been given instructions a week before . |
| 17 | I have only been using LM potencies actively for about nine monthe . |
| 18 | Katharine Over has only been studying Japanese for a year , but she 's already considered good enough to act as an ambassador for Britain . |
| 19 | But yesterday Mr Hughes , 31 , a member of the Royal Photographic Society , told a Birmingham industrial tribunal he had only been showing Mrs Bevins his holiday snaps . |
| 20 | Well when he gets in the right places he 's only been doing schools and you know ? |
| 21 | The Open Software Foundation has apparently been submitting Motif to X/Open Co Ltd on a regular six monthly basis over the last three or four years , sources are saying . |
| 22 | Meanwhile the Harrods personnel department has apparently been giving Geoffrey Bailey a small problem . |
| 23 | The folios and quartos laboured on so industriously by forgotten clerics and divines , the erudite editions of minor classical writers , have long been gathering dust in countless book shops . |
| 24 | We have long been committed Europeans , believing that Britain can only be secure , successful and environmentally safe if we play our full part in building a more united and democratic Europe . |
| 25 | ‘ Then , of course , the cataclysmic events of of 1989 and the recommendations of the Youth Commission , which attributed the debacle partly to the loss of credibility in the media , have all been determining factors . |
| 26 | Soon after England began their reply there was a bad-light hold-up — probably unnecessary if they had all been wearing Bolle ‘ lifter ’ lenses — and upon resumption , Gooch and Stewart had to brace themselves against a torrid onslaught from Waqar , menace in every step of his run-up , and Akram , who bounded in and flung down something resembling Ivanisevic 's curving left-handed tennis serve , if only 30mph or so less swift . |
| 27 | Four sets , which come under the affirmative procedure , have been considered by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments and have all been declared intra vires . |
| 28 | We have all been given golf tips at some time or other while playing , and some tips do work . |
| 29 | As Outdoor Action goes to press , the details of the scheme have not all been made public . |
| 30 | In the event , their arguments have all been to like effect . |