Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its formidable bulk means that you are unlikely to want to carry it about with you if you can avoid it , but that has probably been true of most audit manuals for some time now . |
| 2 | That has always been one of the most heartening aspects of county cricket : mutual help , irrespective of the teams they represent . |
| 3 | Whether or not my father was happy , I could not and can not tell because that has always been difficult , but I suspect from his outbursts of temper and the frequency of his migraines that he was not . |
| 4 | I wonder when that has ever been possible during the lifetime of the NHS . |
| 5 | That has all been great fun . |
| 6 | That has certainly been true of banks since the Basle capital standards were set in 1988 . |
| 7 | That has only been possible because of the combined effort by the whole BNFL team , led so effectively by our outstanding Chief Executive , Neville Chamberlain . |
| 8 | This has frequently been necessary in the case of information obtained by employees in the course of their employment . |
| 9 | This has surely been one of these : a much clearer seismic warning than any given previously of plate-movements underneath an increasingly despised and anachronistic system . |
| 10 | At the level of definitions , this has never been satisfactory . |
| 11 | This has always been one of my favourite houses . |
| 12 | This has always been one of the basic ingredients of good adult education . |
| 13 | This has always been iffy this graphics editor ! |
| 14 | This has always been strongest in the southern States , with their history of slavery and the implicit belief , well-established in the local culture , in black inferiority — a belief capitalized on for more than a century after the Civil War by the Democrats ( see below ) . |
| 15 | This has all been good training for his new post . |
| 16 | ( Although a famous novelist has recently garnered considerable publicity for memorizing his interviews , this has long been standard practice for many sociologists . ) ’ |
| 17 | This has long been one of my favourite Schnittke pieces , for its Russian-accented dodecaphony-on-stilts , for the post-Holocaust numbness of its third movement , and most of all for the unholy alliances of its finale , where Webern seems to be jiving to West Side Story and Shostakovich meets Vivaldi for a deadly serious jam session . |
| 18 | You have the score in your mind — you once said you do n't need a tape or a score to oversee in your mind the whole of Tristan — and this has obviously been true of other great conductors . |
| 19 | This has only been possible with the help of Bressingham Steam Museum and Cumbria 's Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway . |
| 20 | The organisation of this has only been possible with the close cooperation and support of District Managers , and their designated staff . |
| 21 | At the same time he announced that economic austerity measures , including a freeze on public sector promotions , were to be " reconsidered " ; this had also been one of the demands of the workers ' organizations . |
| 22 | This had normally been sufficient pretext for direct military intervention , and some action of this kind appears to have been under consideration in December 1980 and again in March 1981 . |
| 23 | This had only been possible before using invasive manometric techniques or ionising radiation . |
| 24 | Such an attitude precluded agreements which were not backed by force , and it sounded the death-knell of ‘ court diplomacy ’ , even supposing that this had ever been effective . |
| 25 | This had especially been true of the larger members . |
| 26 | This had indeed been one of the aims of the scientific societies of the seventeenth century , such as the Royal Society ; and it was best realized in the superb plates in the Encyclopèdie of Diderot and d'Alembert which show French manufactures in the middle of the eighteenth century , before the industrial revolution changed techniques . |
| 27 | This had occasionally been available from the Central Electricity Board , whose own commercial staff negotiated some large industrial sales contracts for undertakings . |
| 28 | It was the sort of route the British had long been anxious to create , an all-red one , passing through either British-owned , British-run or British-controlled territory . |
| 29 | The applause from their fellow athletes a welcome sound some had never been fortunate enough to enjoy before |
| 30 | Michael Edwards , taking a paradoxical approach , has argued that the English have always been strong on literary theory , instancing a distinguished succession of poet-critics : Sidney , Dryden , Johnson , Wordsworth , Coleridge , Shelley , Arnold , Eliot . |