Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [pron] have been " in BNC.

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1 So far they have been taught to become very good technical accountants .
2 This is hot enough for fusion to occur but so far they have been unable to confine the hot plasma long enough and at high enough densities to generate more energy from fusion than is used to keep the machine working in the first place .
3 The three VAX servers are said to be able to cope with 1,000 transactions an hour , though so far they have been tested to only a few percent of their capacity .
4 " Gabon is specially significant because it probably now has more elephants than any other African country , and so far they have been relatively undisturbed by poachers .
5 So far we have been discussing the role of activity in the development of referential thinking , the development of the knowledge that ‘ there is a world out there ’ .
6 So far we have been concerned with trying to understand something of the general reaction people have to various forms of loss , concentrating on the reactions people will discover in themselves when they or someone close to them is dying or has died .
7 So far we have been unable to contact : Lawrence Hugh Cecil Hawkins , Walter Howard Husband , Everard Arthur Swinton and John Chipchase Walker .
8 So far we have been content to copy on the initial and final values for January 1984 and October 1985 ( y 1 and y N ) but we can do better .
9 So far we have been concerned with odours which affect the public at large , but consideration must also be given to the protection afforded by the law , to employees and other workers who may experience odours in their places of work , whether in a factory , office , shop , or educational establishment , etc .
10 So far we have been concerned to consider the question of the right or the freedom to protest , but the question may be raised as to whether there is a duty to protest .
11 So far we have been presupposing a single agent responding to a present situation and trying to guide his spontaneity by reason .
12 So far we have been self supporting with most of the folks who come along donating to our needs , however we would like to make a donation to the Seventh Day Adventist Church who give us the use of their premises , gas and electricity free of charge .
13 So far we have been looking at the type of grave-clothes provided for the very wealthy .
14 So far we have been discussing the intentional aspect of language in our comparison of human with other animal communication .
15 So far we have been concerned with the dominant academic version of Marxist instrumentalism .
16 So far we have been concerned with the expected actions of teachers in the classroom .
17 So far we have been describing the ways in which the processes of socialisation and internalisation come to bind societies together and reproduce practices and institutions .
18 So far we have been concerned with the nature and effect of intellectual transactions in the classroom .
19 So far we have been talking about the flow of information from the company , but It can be equally important for management to receive information on how the world is thinking about the company and its activities , about rival companies and about the industry in which it operates .
20 So far we have been talking about the reciprocity of all discourse in the broadest of terms , connecting it to the mechanisms of dialogue only generally by saying that monologues are often constructed with the receiver in mind .
21 So far we have been concerned chiefly with the limitations of the network concept in sociolinguistic research ; its advantages can be stated quite briefly .
22 So far we have been discussing behaviour within groups .
23 So far we have been concerned mainly with the market research aspects of marketing research .
24 So far we have been looking at earthworks particular to deserted settlement sites .
25 So far we have been raising rather large issues in an abstracted and certainly general fashion which , it is to be hoped , will become clearer as they are filled out in what follows by way of the discussion of specific methods of data collection .
26 So far we have been concerned with non-polar solutions of amorphous polymers , whose solubility is increased with rising temperature , because the additional thermal motion helps to decrease attractive forces between like molecules , and encourages energetically less favourable contacts .
27 A police spokesman said there were no suspicious circumstances but added : ‘ So far we have been unable to establish why he was in Glasgow or when he arrived . ’
28 So far we have been very trade oriented in our advertising , ’ said .
29 So far I have been suggesting ways in which the Free Church benefited from the political activities of its founder and other leading members .
30 So far I have been at pains to make a clear distinction between these two modes .
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