Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there have been some famous poets who occupied this chair ( for example Matthew Arnold and W. H. Auden ) , it has much more commonly been occupied by dons ; and the point at issue when choosing candidates for the Chair of Poetry has very seldom been their views about the subject on which they are supposed to lecture , still less their competence to do so . |
| 2 | The challenge to take hold of the world and mould it into the Utopia so desired has so far not been seen by humanity to be what it is . |
| 3 | However , as a political issue , it has so far not been properly thrashed out . |
| 4 | An in vivo uptake of polypeptides by human enterocytes has so far not been demonstrated , however . |
| 5 | O. enopla enopla has so far only been recorded from SE. of Cape Cod at a depth of 1152 m . |
| 6 | A graduate of Leland , Stanford and Oxford universities , he was a sharp , intelligent man from Detroit , Michigan , who has all too often been dismissed as the maker of low-budget movies which exploited a particular mood or event in time , heavily criticized for their voyeurism . |
| 7 | As the history of Shakespeare criticism has shown , Lady Anne has all too often been seen either as a particularly silly person or as representing the weak and malleable sex . |
| 8 | The company has applied for permission to drill two more holes in the nearby Lake District National Park , but this drilling permission has thus far not been granted . |
| 9 | Robert Hooke urges in his Micrographia that ‘ the science of nature has already too long been made only a work of the brain and fancy : It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things . ’ |
| 10 | Immediate cash profit has far too long been the overriding aim : it has warped the genuine economy and forced farmers to consider every move in the context of ‘ How soon will it pay ? ’ |
| 11 | Of course , the NME has consistently only really been as good as the contemporary music , film etc it celebrates and criticises , and remains a decent barometer , despite the sporadically desperate-seeming attempts to apply bellows to no more than a small flame . |
| 12 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
| 13 | Paul Fabian , the lone British diplomat who gloried in the title of Her Britannic Majesty 's High Commissioner in Tonga and Consul for the United States Island Possessions in the South Pacific , had sent me a telex advising me that yes , Tafahi was the first place in the world to receive the day 's new time and that , moreover , he had only very recently been there . |
| 14 | The Chinese room had so far not been touched by Sara or her decorators . |
| 15 | Analysts were also agreed that its modest size reflected OAS willingness to work with the Bazin regime for a negotiated settlement , since economic sanctions had thus far not been effective in securing the reinstatement of Aristide [ see p. 38905 ] . |
| 16 | I had also never before been without a pattern to the future , and I was starting to realize that it might not all be quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 17 | My second idea was jackdaws ; the barrier had almost certainly not been opened ; the tower was unscalable from without ; who or whatever took the relics must therefore have flown in . |
| 18 | ‘ No , just a friend , ’ I said too quickly , before I realized that she had almost certainly not been on duty when Sal was brought in . |
| 19 | These cultures , viewed as being more outward-looking and less insular because they had very early on been maritime powers , were referred to as ‘ blue ’ cultures . |
| 20 | Poll books recording the electoral choices of individual voters are common survivals from the years before the Secret Ballot Act of 1872 , but are more numerous for borough than for county constituencies , and have all too frequently been studied in isolation from other types of evidence . |
| 21 | A big problem for the liberals is that recent immigrants from China , who make almost half of the population , have so far not been greatly moved by ideals of democracy . |
| 22 | These missiles have so far not been used because the Phnom Penh airforce has not yet deployed its Soviet helicopters and recently acquired MIG 21 jets in combat . |
| 23 | But this shift should be seen in the context of the total demands of the elderly on resources which appears not to have risen so fast ; they have so far not been a dependent burden of significant dimensions despite their growing numbers , though as Thomson points out , this could change in coming years . |
| 24 | These Permian and Triassic salts , well known in the Cheshire Basin and in the Irish Sea Basin ( Colter and Barr 1975 ) , have so far only been identified in Ireland in and around the Larne Basin , though it would be surprising if that was the limit of their former extent . |
| 25 | The form of protection requiring intermediate level , in-rack sprinklers quoted in paragraph ( 3 ) above have so far only been tested full scale , to stack heights of 15 metres . |
| 26 | Indeed , if I may build on what they have said and sum up my position on the future of the European Community , it is this : in the new Europe that has emerged from the ashes of the second world war and now from the grim shadows of the cold war , new possibilities for peace and prosperity across Europe exist which have probably never before been seen on that continent . |
| 27 | The problem is the familiar one when trying to establish the exact fate of millions of Stalin 's victims : detailed records of the security police , if they ever existed , have probably long since been destroyed . |
| 28 | Supposed market buildings at Alchester and Braughing have now more plausibly been reinterpreted as temples . |
| 29 | Of the land mammals , eleven are unique , including two that have almost certainly subsequently been introduced to nearby smaller islands by man . |
| 30 | In recent times the demands made by traditional society have no longer always been welcomed . |