Example sentences of "has [adv] [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , working-class assent to policing has arguably always been hesitant and brittle ( Cohen , 1979 ; Brogden , 1982 ) .
2 It is a revolution more obviously compared with the French than with any other revolution because of its stages of progression , even though it has so far been peaceful despite the anger .
3 The antagonists , all equally concerned about the incomparable danger , included Michael Foot , who is at least consistent , David Steel , whose reasonable approach to all matters has so far been unimpeded by office .
4 If child B has had a relatively unstressful childhood , he will attain adulthood with a lower vulnerability than A. Child C , who also had a stressful upbringing , but inherited a tendency to react much less strongly or negatively to the environment , will also be less vulnerable in adulthood than A. However , there has so far been little cross-fertilisation between research on genetic factors in depression and research on life events .
5 The pool performance has so far been good and consistent with a triple-A rating , Standard & Poor 's said .
6 IRAS has so far been one of the most trouble-free scientific satellites ; even its orbit is within 20 m of the planned 900 km high path .
7 Some of Fleet Street 's finest wind-up merchants have been put on the case , but the search for the Kinnock temper has so far been fruitless .
8 The search for cheap but reliable mass screening tests and accurate diagnostic algorithms has so far been fruitless , so case-finding based on clinical suspicion will continue to be the most important strategy .
9 The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight .
10 The last-mentioned included provisions against the acquisition of Hatchards , which landed the group with unwanted properties it has so far been unable to sell .
11 Although some bizarre interchanges therefore seem to be real occurrences in these families , the research has so far been unable to convincingly demonstrate a causal link between such communication abnormalities and the development of schizophrenia in the child .
12 The government has so far been equivocal about the resources to be made available , but it is significant that the Griffiths proposal for a specific grant has been rejected , except in the case of the mentally ill .
13 Whilst MDC 's employment creation record has so far been marginal , the service sector jobs generated by the policy focus on tourism and leisure based industries may be more appropriate to the skills of the local community .
14 This section has so far been concerned specifically with zero-pressure-gradient boundary layers .
15 There is no reason to suppose that the Russians are seeking trouble and the same has so far been true of the East Germans .
16 The requirement is as real as any other in the construction industry , but it is interesting to note that take-up in the RICS , with its earlier commitment to obligatory CPD , has been higher than in other professions where it has so far been voluntary .
17 ‘ There has only ever been one criteria for choosing a Wedding Present single .
18 More secure dating to 22–10/9 BC , between which dates the entire city was founded and built , has only recently been possible .
19 Brave Paul , pictured , has only recently been able to use the bike as he battles against the illness .
20 As from February 1 , ICPI Ltd , a wholly-owned IBM Corp subsidiary , began selling its personal computers under the Ambra name again in Germany : according to Computerwoche , at the end of last year , the company 's German distributors were instructed to take the IBM-compatible boxes off the market because the Ambra tradename was protected , and the company has only now been able to regularise the situation ; ICPI reckons it will command a 5% share of the German market by the end of 1993 ; sales will now be expanded into other countries , including the Far East and Africa .
21 It appears that X/Open 's ISV council has thus far been unwilling to admit OSF to its ranks — political reasons notwithstanding — because , X/Open president Geoff Morris says , that its members do n't feel happy about granting OSF an X/Open ticket for a mere fraction of the price that it was originally paying .
22 Miss Padstow , 37 , a former BBC researcher , has not previously been married .
23 A part-time probation officer may do so in his own time provided that he has not previously been concerned with the child and his family in a professional capacity .
24 Evaluation of its performance is hazardous because it has not generally been subject to commercial practices and norms [ Pryke , 1981 ] .
25 There has not yet been much debate about prices .
26 There are a number of variables that can be studied now by noting only each occurrence , but not each non-occurrence , since it has not yet been possible to close the possible set of variants [ my emphasis ] .
27 However , it has not yet been possible to obtain agreement on the need for specific regulation for construction liability and so the principle of subsidiarity continues to apply for the time being .
28 They were seen to be working in the same direction and although it has not yet been possible to gauge the extent to which they help in the task of managing new education , their contribution to quality assurance should , by tradition , be valuable .
29 In other words , the price mechanism has not yet been able to form a support for the market .
30 I feel that the subject of syllabic consonants is an area that we need to know more about , and that there has not yet been enough discussion of the problems found in their analysis .
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