Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [vb pp] [prep] several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essay has since been listed in several bibliographies , and has exerted an influence which , when I composed it as a kind of riposte to the British Council 's purchase of the copyright of that crack-brained idea from its originator , C. K. Ogden , I could not have foreseen . |
| 2 | This car was the last to be constructed without a sponsor , although it has since been sponsored by several firms . |
| 3 | Aube wines had long been used by several Champagne houses , albeit on the quiet , and with no delimited region fixed the practice began to increase . |
| 4 | Restlessly , she returned to the office , then recalled that the answering machine had not been checked for several hours . |
| 5 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
| 6 | The door is locked and the windows are covered with grime ; in the silence the whole place looks as if it has not been occupied for several weeks . |
| 7 | The play has already been written over several months by an enthusiastic team from all the churches involved ; and by the time of going to press casting will already have taken place and all performing groups : the singers , dancers and actors , will be involved in their own regular rehearsals in March . |
| 8 | This clearance was important because I did intend to ask one or two questions about a matter which had already been aired in several books and articles , her love affair with H. G. Wells and the child of that union , the writer Anthony West . |
| 9 | One method of operation is known as the ‘ core and cluster ’ system , which has already been tried in several parts of the country . |
| 10 | vol 213 , p 1457 ) , have also been reported from several wetland areas . |
| 11 | It has now been shown by several laboratories that ingestion of fibre causes an increase in cellular proliferation in the colon of rats . |
| 12 | Orthotopic liver transplantation has now been performed in several cases , but its widespread use is likely to be restricted by the problems of postoperative sepsis , perioperative cerebral oedema , psychological assessment , and availability of donors . |
| 13 | ‘ There you are then , ’ said Lydia , who had now been forced on several occasions to concede that Betty was not unsympathetic and understood more than Lydia would have thought her capable of . |
| 14 | Diseases similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy have recently been reported in several species of domestic and zoo animals . |