Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] been [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas nuclear weaponry had effectively only been in the hands of the U.S.A. , the development of such weapons by other nations had been increasing , so at a meeting , in December 1962 , at Nassau , Prime minister Harold Macmillan and President Kennedy , hammered out an agreement whereby Britain abandoned its plans for ‘ Skybolt ’ in return for the U.S.A. ‘ Polaris ’ missile for use by British nuclear submarines . |
| 2 | Implicatures that are " triggered " in this unostentatious way , simply by the assumption that the maxims are being observed , have so far been of the greater interest to linguists . |
| 3 | Coming from someone who 'd obviously never been in the right frame of mind magnetically to attach anything but his salary to himself — money Anwar always referred to as ‘ unearned income ’ — this seemed a bit rich . |
| 4 | Instead , where disorder has occurred , it has more often been between the police and a faction or factions within the demonstration itself . |
| 5 | The focus has almost always been on the North Sea , although between 1965 and 1973 eight distant-water freezer trawlers belonging to Ranger Fisheries , a subsidiary of P and O , were based in the port . |
| 6 | His view of Iran had almost always been from the sky . |
| 7 | You had almost certainly been to the shops . |
| 8 | Since then the pressure for a Bill of Rights has built up , partly inspired by the work of the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg , in which successive British governments have too often been on the losing side . |
| 9 | She had never before been in the Royal Victoria Infirmary . |
| 10 | She had never before been in the company of a man , let alone a young , attractive man . |
| 11 | Or has this issue never previously been on the Church 's agenda because the majority of women did not — until our century — have the education , the freedom or the position in society to enable them to take a priestly role ? |
| 12 | Erm because I 'd never actually been in the flats before . |