Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impact of the Thatcher government 's new thinking has most obviously been felt in the privatization programme for the state-owned and state-provided services . |
| 2 | Female choice has only properly been tested for in the case of one such character , the long tail of a species of widow bird , and it was confirmed to be operating . |
| 3 | It is generally the case , nevertheless , that in the 30 years since the signing of the Treaty , EC policies have only rarely been developed in a framework which explicitly evaluates the spatial impact of those policies . |
| 4 | Space was at such a premium here that the narrow side streets had long since been filled with structures . |
| 5 | On the few stumps that remained of Verdun 's noble forests on the Right Bank , the bark either hung down in strips , or else had long since been consumed by half-starved pack-horses . |
| 6 | In the Septizonium , an ancient Roman temple at the south-east corner of the Palatine , which had long since been annexed for other uses , safe from outside interference and imperial troops , for it was still possible for emperors to attempt to interfere with elections , the election commenced after each cardinal had celebrated mass and all of them had exchanged the kiss of peace . |
| 7 | They had turned her pillow so that it was fresh , and the tawdry finery had long since been replaced by a smooth , pale quilt that reached to her breast . |
| 8 | It served , however only to churn up the sodden land , whose drainage system had long since been destroyed by years of artillery fire , into a vast morass of craters filled with water , through which the British were expected to advance . |
| 9 | Today the garden is still there , although it has long since been absorbed into the sprawling outskirts of the town . |
| 10 | The myth that community care is cheaper than institutional care has long since been dispensed with , but this may not necessarily deter the government from seeing the impending changes as an opportunity to cut costs . |
| 11 | It has long since been turned into a pond and moat . |
| 12 | The airborne branch has long since been covered in its own thorough MAA 139 , so it is welcome to see this new and interesting study of the LFDs — in much greater and more specific depth , and well illustrated . |
| 13 | The old chestnut of rating a disk drive by its Data Access Time , or Average Seek Time has long since been overtaken by modern drive technology . |
| 14 | The special edition of the journal had long since been published by the time I got the material out of Iraq . ) |
| 15 | They had eyes only for the journey downwards , now , and battle-fervour , love and pride had long since been sucked from them , leaving them soulless husks : in bronze , or leather , fur-cloaked or bright trousered . |
| 16 | ( The old argument , fashionable in the 1960s , whether molecular biology is a separate discipline ir , instead , an ingredient of every other has long since been settled in favour of pervasiveness . ) |
| 17 | Although the art treasures had long since been taken to Moscow , many of the palaces were in ruins after the fearful fighting between the Russians and the Germans . |
| 18 | He acquired the rudiments of the game in a tougher prep school than many of his Western contemporaries who have long since been cosseted by snooker 's new-found respectability . |
| 19 | The crucial moment when children realise that their parents are younger than they are had long since been passed by Martha . |
| 20 | The woodwork , once painted white but now faded to a dingy cream with a grey deposit in the crevices , was chipped and scuffed and the pattern of leaves and flowers on the stair carpet had long since been reduced to a brownish blur . |
| 21 | Since Alice had long since been betrothed to Richard the studied vagueness of the phrase " to whichever of his sons married her " suggests that Henry may have been toying with the idea of marrying her not to Richard but to John . |
| 22 | It seems probable that all of this could not have come about had not the superego emerged as a continuation of a trend of evolutionary development which had long since been embarked upon by the ego proper . |
| 23 | Genette speaks of this change in emphasis as a restoration of equilibrium in literary studies : ‘ Literature had long enough been regarded as a message without a code for it to become necessary to regard it for a time as a code without a message ( 1982 : 7 ) . |
| 24 | Those fighter pilots were praised by Churchill , when he made his famous announcement that ‘ Never in the history of human conflict had so much been owed to so few by so many ’ . |
| 25 | Money-Go-Round : Never has so much been owed by so many |
| 26 | Never has so much been expected of general medical practitioners and practice staff ; general practitioners are being pressed to do audit , participate in commissioning , become fundholders , do research , improve consumer responsiveness , and develop new skills in the transfer of services from secondary to primary care and development of community care . |
| 27 | A disciplined , regular army was about to drive the gunmen from streets which had for so long been ruled by rival guerrillas exacting their own terrible day-to-day justice . |
| 28 | The second site , at Chedworth , has for so long been accepted as the typical Romano-British villa , that one hesitates to question its function . |
| 29 | The one at Marham in Norfolk incorporates a World War One aeroplane of unspecified type and that at Upwood the Canberra which has for so long been associated with the RAF station . |
| 30 | 72 per cent said that nutritional information made it easier to choose the healthy , balanced diet , which has so long been urged by health educationalists and consumer bodies . |