Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But its uptake has not been popularly received in Britain . |
| 2 | Today the links between the Black and Irish communities are many , and the need for unity has never been more urgent . |
| 3 | Director Stephen Lee said : ‘ Charities are under enormous pressure to increase their services at a time when fundraising has never been so constrained . |
| 4 | No medical text has ever been so widely used by successive generations of medical students and doctors . |
| 5 | This fact , plus the ubiquitous veil of secrecy which covers military matters , has fuelled suspicion that the link has never been thoroughly broken and that plutonium produced in civil reactors has found its way into the military stockpiles . |
| 6 | Léonie is looking quite well , she declared : but her hair has not been properly brushed . |
| 7 | Removing unwanted hair has never been so simple . |
| 8 | No player , with the single exception of Ian Botham , is photographed or talked about more than Graham Gooch , whose story has just been reliably and thoroughly told by Ivo Tennant in a book boldly entitled Graham Gooch , The Biography ( £15.99 ) . |
| 9 | However , music chosen from a composer 's total output and specially arranged as a score for a three-act ballet with a story has rarely been completely successful . |
| 10 | The fact that the adventure story has always been very largely the province of male writers does not necessarily mean that the female characters in such fictions will be less ‘ real ’ than the heroes or villains . |
| 11 | Their story has never been properly told . |
| 12 | Caerulein induced pancreatitis represents a reproducible model suitable to study the effects of potentially ameliorating agents but the mechanism of the pancreatic damage has not been fully explained . |
| 13 | If it fails to achieve that then the decision has not been properly designed . |
| 14 | It has been said that no application from a major firm for a capacity increment has ever been flatly rejected , although some have been delayed . |
| 15 | With sea-room a prerequisite of safe ship handling , naval training and other deep-water seamanship has always been more concerned , therefore , with keeping clear of land than with approaching beaches . |
| 16 | Paradoxically , the Pentagon has never been as preoccupied as the State Department with the vagaries of General Noriega . |
| 17 | Joan , who supervised Highgrove and Princess Anne 's Gatcombe Park household laundry with her sister until their retirement , says : ‘ The Prince has always been very kind . ’ |
| 18 | The effect of this change has not been as dramatic as had been feared . |
| 19 | In the last decade or so of his reign , approximately 100 mints functioned ( even if not all did so continuously ) : for the volume of the coinage they produced , only a " ball-park estimate " can be given — perhaps tens of millions of coins — but the quality of the coins has recently been very precisely determined : whereas before 864 many coins were debased by up to 50 per cent , after 864 a silver-content of well over 90 per cent was secured across the board . |
| 20 | What happened to McGonigal 's stick has never been satisfactorily established . |
| 21 | The posting has caused some concern among Nationalists and in Dublin , where , in the interests of building a good working relationship from the outset , the worry has not been publicly articulated . |
| 22 | A four-week pilot course in Cardiff has just been successfully completed . |
| 23 | Infected blood and blood products — HIV transmission via this route has now been virtually eliminated in developed countries through routine screening ( testing ) of donated blood . |
| 24 | In Europe the EEC has already been strongly influenced , inter alia , by German and Dutch experience in its attempts to devise a common statute for employee participation within European companies . |
| 25 | Chris explained : ‘ The length of this recession has n't been accurately predicted by anyone — for example , American economists were forecasting that the US would pull out of recession in 1992 , but here we are at the end of the year and nothing much has changed . |
| 26 | The recession has not been too unkind to HCIMA . |
| 27 | As Brian Richards says , the range of techniques for improving movement in cities has never been so great . |
| 28 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 29 | The central administration of the Modular Course has always been keenly aware of the burden falling on Field Chairs . |
| 30 | I believe that it is , she thought , I truly believe that it is my mind , for Isabel has always been so firm , so clearly in control . |