Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangely , nobody said anything , but the culprit has been notably absent from subsequent holidays . |
| 2 | I say minimal both because it is rather modest , in contrast say to Jakobson 's , and because it seems to present a demand that it should be very difficult for modern literary studies to deny : that in describing the language of literary texts a degree of rigour is required such as has been notably absent from the work of a great many critics . |
| 3 | For a man who was leading the campaign for sanctions against South Africa , when that was still a hopeless liberal cause , he has been notably diffident about such things as collective punishment and detention without trial in the Israeli-occupied territories . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , as Layard and Nickell ( 1989 ) have shown , Britain 's recent record on education and training has been notably inadequate . |
| 5 | These then are the origins and development of the concepts and proposals which have become the substance of the Maastricht Treaty , but about which the public has been notably ill-informed . |
| 6 | There has been slightly greater interest in Cued Speech , but again the findings have mainly consisted of case studies or unsubstantiated claims . |
| 7 | To be to be honest i I , I , it 's been , the presentation I 've given tonight has been slightly different , it 's the first time I tried it and it was really successful . |
| 8 | Blues , of course , has been widely influential , indeed formative , on the development of rock . |
| 9 | This has been partly due to the new and attractive packages offered to depositors , and partly due to the increase in competition in the sector since the interest rate cartel was ended a few years ago . |
| 10 | The toxicity of some drugs has brought the status of the pharmaceutical industry to its lowest ebb yet , and has been partly responsible for a virtual stampede away from chemists towards health shops . |
| 11 | OFFICIALLY there has been just one Clinton fighting on the Democrat ticket to get into the White House . |
| 12 | Thus there has grown up an interest in feminist ‘ herstory ’ ; etymologically impossible , the word emphasizes that his-story has been just that — the history of men . |
| 13 | Since I 've been back at work , life has been just great . |
| 14 | But we ca n't wait to come back over , because the response we 've had over here has been just overwhelming . |
| 15 | It 's taken 85 years for the Goodman family name to appear on one of their motorbikes , but looking at the HDS 1200 on the road , the wait has been well worthwhile . |
| 16 | Negotiation has been well worth-while , he has found , particularly since many of the food company 's plants have a higher demand in the off-peak summer period than in the winter . |
| 17 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 18 | If anything , the ignominy heaped on Johnson second time around — not to mention the embarrassment caused to athletics — has been even greater than in Seoul . |
| 19 | This seems to be the maxim of those who use the library and information service which has been even busier in the last session . |
| 20 | The performance of the AGR series has been even worse . |
| 21 | Ronny replaces Swindon-striker Fjortoft for the game tonight — Ronny must have done well in the training sessions ( coach Olsen really put some value on how the players perform in training before the games ) and Fjortoft which has been even worse for Swindon than Deano for us might have a hard time to get the attacker place back ( Fjortoft 0 — Deano 3 — Cole 10 is n't it ? ) . |
| 22 | 11 , everything happening in the present case has been no more than one stage in a continuing contest between the prosecutor and the applicant in a matter which from the outset has been exclusively criminal in nature . |
| 23 | Your life has been incredibly successful , and you 've got out of it exactly what you wanted for your highest good . |
| 24 | There has been wide public interest in international comparisons of schooling in recent years . |
| 25 | Sexual experiment , now or in earlier life , is and has been markedly less than with younger people . |
| 26 | BILL CLINTON has been painfully slow with most appointments , but he has moved faster than George Bush did in 1989 to find a chairman for the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) . |
| 27 | Credito Italiano and Banca Commerciale Italiana , two big state banks , have been earmarked for privatisation , but progress towards a sell-off has been painfully slow . |
| 28 | Britain has been notoriously ineffective in dealing with offences like financial fraud , market manipulation and insider dealing . |
| 29 | In the past , this kind of pricing scheme has been notoriously difficult to manage . |
| 30 | Some teachers , even in infant classes , report that the rejection of schemes and learning to read through real books has been completely successful . |