Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loren was upstairs , engaged in that long getting-ready process that he 'd never quite been able to fathom . |
| 2 | She 'd never really been interested in boys , or going out much . |
| 3 | This was a departure from tradition , since the illuminated cars had hitherto only been decorative . |
| 4 | The only survivor I interviewed who had not married and who had always worked , told me that she had only once been unemployed , for a period of 6 months , when she got a temporary job selling insurance . |
| 5 | Men had only ever been pleasant pastimes in her full and varied life . |
| 6 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 7 | Exit-poll findings and election returns showed that Tyminski had been most successful in the countryside and small towns , where the benefits of the economic reforms had so far been negligible , and among young people waiting for housing and workers concerned about their jobs . |
| 8 | The casualty was lying beam-on to the swell , and dead in the water with no engine power , so the helicopter 's attempt to lift the survivors had so far been unsuccessful . |
| 9 | Mr Pritchard , said results had so far been good , and it was well placed to achieve excellent full year figures . |
| 10 | Mr McEwan said police had so far been unable to trace any members of the missing girl 's family still living in the Coatbridge area . |
| 11 | All the women in the conference planning group had so far been white , and we were only just beginning to respond to Black women 's demands that we examine our racism , and tackle it . |
| 12 | The fields surrounding the churchyard had long ago been relieved from private ownership and lumped together into one huge collective farm . |
| 13 | This reorganization gave an overview of the education system which had not previously been possible . |
| 14 | The strength of the DCAC was not simply that it had the backing of the existing leadership of anti-Unionist opinion in Derry , but also that it succeeded in attracting new people who had not previously been involved in any kind of political activity but who found unsuspected reservoirs of energy and initiative . |
| 15 | The impact of these discoveries was considerable because they reinforced other fears amongst individuals whose concern with social issues had not previously been notable . |
| 16 | Replying to these criticisms ( which have raised the possibility of an elaborate forgery ) in the newspaper El Pais , the Spanish pre-historian Antonio Beltran noted that although he had not previously been aware of depictions of penguins , rare animals such as snow hares and seals were found in cave paintings . |
| 17 | In some cases , these loans were of theses which had already been checked , but there were some new records , and some for which access had not otherwise been possible . |
| 18 | Up to 1925 , however , industrial action had not appeared to work and threatening postures had not generally been successful against employers . |
| 19 | I had not yet been able to fathom why . |
| 20 | The French minister of industry , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Thursday announced that the French government has paid SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV the first part of the $466m in research and development aid it agreed to pay over five years — the Italian government is supposed to pay the same amount over the same period : ‘ I have signed with SGS-Thomson a contract for a multi-year development effort in France ; the sums for 1993 , $83m from both sides , have been paid , ’ he said ; a spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson in Paris said she had not yet been able to confirm Strauss-Kahn 's assertion ; the separate recapitalisation , which Brussels recently approved , is still conditional on a firm decision being taken on the Italian side , and would be effected in three payments — $227m split evenly between the two partners and an identical payment three months later ; the third payment of $455m is set to be made in 1995 . |
| 21 | Robert had not yet been able to fathom why this was the case . |
| 22 | Police said they had not yet been able to identify the man but he is not believed to be local . |
| 23 | He wished to be able to show by affidavit evidence that he had not occupied the house qua pauper but had paid rates and carried out repairs , and that he had not therefore been chargeable on the parish during the period of his occupation ; the magistrate could not give himself jurisdiction by his own affirmation of it . |
| 24 | As I had to go to Beskett this young woman had not long been married and she always used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey , cos I used to go on a bike not in a van , on a carrier bike , she used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey to see if there were any mail from her husband and he was , there sometimes was sometimes there was n't nothing you know that he 'd written and er one day I 'd got back and er she was all in tears and er he , he had been killed in France and I was glad I did n't have to be the harbinger of the times you know she still lives in Palfrey now Mrs yeah . |
| 25 | It had not always been possible for him to observe the phenomenon on his own . |
| 26 | But life had not always been that way with Moby . |
| 27 | As the available range of leisure activities expanded such people were less interested in the convivial aspects of Friendly Society membership and more concerned with safe insurance , which Friendly Societies had not always been able to guarantee . |
| 28 | If the Secretary of State had regularly taken the governors ' advice about appointments , patronage might have been used to control the assemblies — some governors , notably in Massachusetts , were able to get their own way in their assemblies much more often in wartime and , while this was partly due to patriotism and partly due to fear of the French , it does appear that war contracts could build support in what had not always been promising soil for the governors . |
| 29 | The PUK had not always been devoid of outside help , having at one stage been supported by Syria before entering into negotiations with Baghdad in 1984 for a new deal for Iraqi Kurds to improve on the Autonomous Region status conceded them under a mosaic of earlier legislation . |
| 30 | The OFT , having taken opinions from various sectors , considered that these particular sections of the Consumer Credit Act had not really been effective . |