Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today the links between the Black and Irish communities are many , and the need for unity has never been more urgent . |
| 2 | Director Stephen Lee said : ‘ Charities are under enormous pressure to increase their services at a time when fundraising has never been so constrained . |
| 3 | No medical text has ever been so widely used by successive generations of medical students and doctors . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Removing unwanted hair has never been so simple . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Their story has never been properly told . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | What happened to McGonigal 's stick has never been satisfactorily established . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The central administration of the Modular Course has always been keenly aware of the burden falling on Field Chairs . |
| 17 | A pukka building was duly erected , but its medical function has somehow been indefinitely postponed . |
| 18 | I am glad to say that this act of faith has since been amply rewarded and the blazer 's fit is perfect . |
| 19 | My enthusiasm has always been more muted in the case of the big , highly publicised national charities . |
| 20 | But then , no ghost has ever been definitively ‘ identified ’ , as far as I 'm aware . |
| 21 | The big money has evidently been well spent . |
| 22 | Paul 's teaching has sometimes been unfairly caricatured as being on the bosses ' side . |
| 23 | The need to transcend religion has nowhere been more clearly expressed than within Sikhism . |
| 24 | The destructive effects of anxiety can sometimes be dissipated with reward , undoing the formation of a bad habit , especially if the horse has otherwise been kindly treated . |
| 25 | State medicine 's involvement in campaigns for improved military efficiency and health regeneration has usually been loosely ascribed to the growing move towards ‘ collectivism ’ in the early twentieth century . |
| 26 | This duly arrived and the five hour Test Programme has just been successfully completed at the farm strip at Weston Underwood where Midge is presently ‘ stationed ’ She has company too — her stable mate is a Tiger Moth : G-AMHF . |
| 27 | Further genetic progress on mastitis resistance is expected because the weighting gives to it in the Norwegian breeding programme has recently been more than doubled . |
| 28 | It 's a major market and the tourism industry has really been very slow to wake up to this factor . |
| 29 | Thanks to its remote situation and forbidding terrain , this 12 square miles of raised coral has never been successfully colonised , either by people or other introduced species . |
| 30 | The politician 's dilemma has never been better stated than by George Dempster in a letter which he wrote to Sir Adam Fergusson in 1783 : |