Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appreciation here has been absolutely fantastic . |
| 2 | The tremolo routing is excellent and any overspray or rough wood underneath has been neatly covered by a black foam mat , further adding to the well-made look of the guitar . |
| 3 | Business Direct has been specially developed for independent business travellers — people who travel on business , but whose companies do not necessarily operate an in-house travel scheme . |
| 4 | With the exception of the freak year 1981 the ratio since has been about two to one . |
| 5 | LETTER-BOMBERS who sent a package which exploded at the Cambridgeshire headquarters of Anglian Water yesterday have been roundly condemned by Scottish National Party leaders . |
| 6 | ‘ Not at all , ’ she replied , feeling at once alive and full to the brim with the enthusiasm which only a minute ago had been nowhere about . |
| 7 | " Spain has managed to maintain those areas much as they have been since the Middle Ages , because industrial development here has been much slower than in other European nations . |
| 8 | Certainly US inflation subsequently had been extremely low ; between 1952 and 1967 the US wholesale price index rose at only 0.8 per cent a year . |
| 9 | Example run : The example below has been further expanded to include error trapping . |
| 10 | Undoubtedly the method works in Purdue , and reports are that its adoption elsewhere has been generally successful . |
| 11 | I had expected , perhaps because the image she had presented me with the week before had been more domestic , someone less ambiguous and far less assured . |
| 12 | This bore has a very unpleasant reputation and the local people do n't like going near the place at night especially as the rail traffic today has been considerably reduced . |
| 13 | Kicking the Sheraton cabinet quietly had been as far as he had ever gone in destructiveness . |
| 14 | Our experience here has been quite unlike that of the Shanghai group last year , in that everyone seems to have fallen over backwards to make the course unpolitical . |
| 15 | Since our concern here has been exclusively with assessment of Grant Related Expenditure and not with the subsequent use ( and possible misuse ) of these estimates in the actual allocations of money to Local Authorities , we shall concentrate on instability of the GRE . |
| 16 | It was established that individual pathetic character once and forever by tying one end of his pocket handkerchief to a hook on , in the wall and attaching himself to the other to the performance , to , to the performance of this feat however the pocket handkerchief inside had been all he , he only cried bitterly all day and when the longest nights came on he spread his little hand before his eyes to shut out the darkness and crouching in the corner tried to sleep , everyone drawing himself closer and closer to the wall |
| 17 | You may have read recently in the press that the Council 's coach education distance learning project now has been formally launched . |
| 18 | The situation here has been very tense . |
| 19 | Its growth however has been constantly threatened by the size of the oil import bill . |
| 20 | The project however had been virtually completed , a remarkable achievement considering the weather conditions . |
| 21 | The walled garden too had been carefully maintained . |
| 22 | God — I should n't say this but the music press generally has been pretty decent to me . |
| 23 | Perhaps the honourable member should do a competitiveness survey and go somewhere else for his queue , I do n't know but what I can tell the honourable gentleman is that even though there were losses in the banking industry for the last year there have been strongly offsetting rises in insurance and business services . |
| 24 | That shows how much energy is available , and it is very attractive to try and harness this , but since the turn of the century there have been over a hundred patented devices to extract energy from the waves , but we still do n't have a single commercial one operating . |
| 25 | Traditionally , the connection between the police and the party in power locally has been very close , and the susceptibility of the former to the wishes of the latter has been much greater than in Britain . |
| 26 | The task ahead has been clearly recognised and 1992–93 has been a year in which we have continued to apply our skills and core technologies across the wider spectrum of human endeavour from healthcare to the care of the environment in which we live . |
| 27 | ‘ Driver acceptance too has been very good and it looks like the misconception that diesels are dirty , slow and smelly is a thing of the past . ’ |