Example sentences of "[adv] been [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly they used the principle of partible inheritance ( which had long been characteristic of some other European societies ) , where the estate was divided between the surviving spouse and children . |
| 2 | Whether or not the USSR will increase oil exports and whether it can do so have long been areas of heated debate . |
| 3 | There have long been stories of mysterious sounds at sea : haunted eerie calls in the night , mermaids singing , sirens luring sailors on to the rocks . |
| 4 | There have long been stories of human giants in legend and mythology . |
| 5 | In the search for a transcendent level of knowledge , it has long been part of human endeavour to enter a symbolic womb of darkness and learn within its space . |
| 6 | Yes , I think it does something really nasty , you know , you could have got in again and just been sort of whiter than white just does n't work with the er , |
| 7 | ‘ But there have always been girls of eighteen , even in my day , ’ Sophia protested . |
| 8 | Submerged economy and unofficial government have always been features of Italian life . |
| 9 | THE SHAMEN have always been victims of tabloid hysteria and censorship . |
| 10 | THE SHAMEN have always been victims of tabloid hysteria and censorship . |
| 11 | What she did not know was that Moran , with his good looks and military fame , had once been king of these barn dances and now that he had neither youth nor fame would not take a lesser place . |
| 12 | The independent republic of Honduras had been created a year previously , in 1838 , having once been part of Spanish America ; its fertile coastal plains surround a mountainous interior , rich in forests , and it just manages to have a 40-mile strip of southern coastline on the Pacific to complement its much longer Caribbean seaboard . |
| 13 | There had also been reports of dissident troops moving towards the area from a camp in the centre of the town . |
| 14 | There have also been reports of selective abortion of girl babies in Britain , the US and Australia . |
| 15 | But as mentioned earlier , there has also been regression of gastric carcinoids without such operative intervention . |
| 16 | There have also been cases of deliberate neglect of property in order to force tenants out of the building . |
| 17 | There have been also been complaints of financial mismanagement . |
| 18 | Running concurrently with this there have also been experiences of other forms of ‘ faith healing ’ , not always exclusively associated with a ‘ god ’ or religion . |
| 19 | Although there have doubtless been examples of such a ‘ results-oriented ’ approach before — the semiconductor agreements were concluded by the Reagan and Bush administrations — Ms Tyson 's emphasis on the point is new . |
| 20 | Women had rarely previously been members of Friendly Societies , the extent of their ill-health had been unknown when the Act was framed , and administrators were unprepared for it . |
| 21 | Notably , the Classical foot has never been part of English phonology ; it is a verse-specific contruct . |
| 22 | Of forty-four ministers whose affiliations are known , twenty-one have never been members of any fraternal organization . |
| 23 | I know people who have never been east of Western . ’ |