Example sentences of "been [adv] [verb] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the chief glories of this house is that it has been little altered since it was built around the middle of the sixteenth century . |
| 2 | ‘ The BBC has always been classified as the station which tells the truth and they should make sure their research has been properly done before they publish anything else . ’ |
| 3 | ( i ) The aircraft had been properly maintained and its documentation was in order . |
| 4 | Furthermore , many key settlement policies have not been properly implemented because there has been a lack of co-ordination among the relevant planning agencies ( Cloke 1980b ) . |
| 5 | Her ankle had been properly bandaged and she had been given pain-killers and ordered to keep off her foot as much as possible . |
| 6 | However , there have been changes of contrast and changes of detail on time scales from years to days , and for at least 100 years it has been widely realized that we are seeing the tops of richly coloured clouds that cover the entire planet . |
| 7 | It had been widely assumed that he would succeed Sir Robert Scholey when the chairman steps down . |
| 8 | It has been widely accepted that it is in the interests of individual patients , that psychiatric treatment and services should be provided as near as is reasonably practicable to the patient 's home and community … . |
| 9 | Ever since 1945 it had been widely accepted that there was a need to reform local government to bring greater efficiency and more vigour into the system . |
| 10 | Although it had been widely reported that he had made a full confession during pre-trial questioning , in court Watanabe maintained that " there is no truth " in the reports that he had paid politicians . |
| 11 | Lambert has been widely criticised and there has been speculation that the controversy could lead to his departure from the FT . |
| 12 | In recent years it has been widely suggested that our prisons are in a ‘ state of crisis ’ , a situation made worse by inadequate means for monitoring what the prisons are doing , and a lack of formal safeguards against bad practices . |
| 13 | In February 1991 he had moved from Palermo to Rome in order to become director-general of penal affairs in the Justice Ministry , and it had been widely expected that he might head a new judicial body which was to be created as part of a fresh anti-Mafia drive . |
| 14 | The honourable member has been on to say that his mother was upset about her appearance here , not least because she felt it was invading her privacy . |
| 15 | In terms of the typology presented in Chapter 3 , it is the gentlemen farmers — the traditional village squires — who have probably been most affected and who have watched the newcomers add to the general decline of squirearchal power and influence . |
| 16 | In the long , patient search for truth doubt has been slowly promoted until it is reason 's junior partner or reason 's right-hand man . |
| 17 | ‘ The residents were taken to hospital as a precaution , but the member of staff appears to have been badly affected and we are obviously concerned about that . ’ |
| 18 | He 'd been badly beaten and his throat had been cut . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the difficulty of mustering the parade had been badly miscalculated and it was behind schedule . |
| 20 | While the shame of the public defamation felt by the typical Nazi lawyer was allegedly almost enough to drive him to suicide , reactions of astonishment , disbelief , anxiety , and criticism can be read between the lines of the responses from judges and the justice administration , and the most outspoken reaction was that the Führer had been badly misinformed and his ‘ wholly unexpected attack on justice ’ much ‘ discussed and criticized ’ . |
| 21 | Thanks to understanding managers and colleagues the transition has been effectively man-aged and her service contribution has become invaluable . |
| 22 | Mark 's wishes could n't have been better fulfilled as she ended up in a small tourist camp in Kanha National Park . |
| 23 | In retrospect Adenauer 's personal reputation would have been better served if he had retired gracefully in 1961 . |
| 24 | My people feel that the right hon. Gentleman would have been better employed if he had rushed to comfort the bereaved rather than carry out a song-and-dance act among people in Dublin , or even watch a rugby match . |
| 25 | Heyrick 's philanthropy has been better recognized than her executive acumen , her grasp of power systems and of pressure-group politics , or her forceful analysis of the interdependence of social evils . |
| 26 | Congress has always been better staffed than its counterparts elsewhere in the world and by 1979 it had a total staff of 23,056 . |
| 27 | I fear , however , that Woodward 's vocation would have been better exercised if he had confined himself to hospital portering . |
| 28 | Indeed we have ‘ given the rod ’ to nations which have been better acquainted than ourselves with tyranny and inhumanity . |
| 29 | At last a city official , wearing the blue and mustard livery of the Corporation , decided the burnt-out tenement had been sufficiently destroyed and we were allowed to pass on . |
| 30 | The playhouse in the Harlow is about the people in Harlow and about the people that come in from outside of Harlow I 'm very conscious that we do serve a very wide community and I am pleased that people with other sounds come and support the theatre has been rightly said if they did n't come in to Harlow to support the theatre we would have major problems . |