Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murray Holmes , the BDA 's present Vice-Chairman took his place , and has since been elected Vice-President of an the World Federation . |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Katharine Over has only been studying Japanese for a year , but she 's already considered good enough to act as an ambassador for Britain . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nowadays they get in free and are given VIP passes ( access to all areas ) , but tonight the five mates with whom they 've driven the 150 miles from Southport have all been refused entry by the Ritzy 's management for being under 20 . |
| 9 | It 's all been taken care of . |
| 10 | The specialist reassured him plans were being worked out by his colleagues even as they spoke , and it had all been taken care of . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's all been taken care of , ’ Molly replies . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've all been playing games with me . ’ |
| 13 | The photographer had obviously been studying portraits of Betty Grable and other film stars and was trying to be very artistic , with much back lighting and fluffing out of hair , and I must admit that my hair ( touching my shoulders , naturally ) , did look nice . |
| 14 | He 's obviously been losing sleep about it . |
| 15 | The collapse of several large carriers , including Pan American , has provided a pool of very experienced pilots to meet the needs of surviving airlines , who in turn have not been hiring staff from traditional sources such as regional airlines . |
| 16 | However , given that users in the hidden sector are slightly younger , and have not been using heroin for as long as the known users , it does seem highly likely that many more of these ‘ hidden ’ users will surface , either because of prosecution , pregnancy , physical illness or their own decision to seek help of some sort . |
| 17 | Married women who had not been receiving support from their husband when they were first interviewed , and were therefore not expecting support from him during subsequent crises , had a much reduced risk of depression if they received help from someone else whom they had named as very close at the first interview . |
| 18 | Belloucif , who had left his post as secretary of the Minister of Defence in 1987 , had already in 1989 faced a commission of inquiry of six generals , although this hearing had not been made public until now . |
| 19 | This is the first time the ABRC 's report has not been made public in recent years . |
| 20 | The European Convention on Human Rights has not been made part of our law by statute , so it does not in itself create rights enforceable in our courts ; but having been ratified by this country it is binding on us as a matter of international law . |
| 21 | The fact that certain strategies which can be shown to be useful in translation have not been made use of so far suggests that translators are simply not aware of them , rather than that they are familiar with them but consciously or subconsciously choose not to use them . |
| 22 | At some stage a funding body has assessed the potential worth of a project , and research grants have been made available for it , but the lack of incentive to publish , or the difficulties encountered in preparing work for publication , have resulted in the fact that two-fifths of the work has not been made use of by the scientific community , except possibly through consultations of the original theses , ( which will be discussed in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 23 | At some stage a funding body has assessed the potential worth of a project , and research grants have been made available for it , but the lack of incentive to publish , or the difficulties encountered in preparing work for publication , have resulted in the fact that two-fifths of the work has not been made use of by the scientific community , except possibly through consultations of the original theses , ( which will be discussed in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 24 | Yeah , no , if you , if you 're supporting it colleague , we 've not been taking support in all , all week and indeed I know how important it is and we 'll , pardon ? |
| 25 | Mr Kerrigan commented he was surprised that the exhausts had not been fitted back to front . |
| 26 | A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining . |
| 27 | They had not been given details of the legislation and so were unable to counter opposition scaremongering . |
| 28 | They 've not been making money for years though |
| 29 | There was a movement within the Trees , the sudden shifting of green and gold and russet , so that Floy knew the dusk had not been playing tricks after all . |
| 30 | I have not been supplied details of the BMA/BUPA scheme , but the chief executive of BUPA tells me that between 1981 and 1991 total BUPA benefit payments rose 280% while BUPA membership rose 10% . |