Example sentences of "as [verb] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has already been seen , it was the style of both church and politicians to avoid their mutual consultations being known , which tells us that the secularity of the state at that time was partially a façade , but one which it was felt by both interested parties had to be maintained , probably so as not to confuse the faithful . |
| 2 | Even so , giving bright light at a time which should not affect the body clock or even adjust it in the wrong direction could be tested — as has already been described . |
| 3 | The rights of the beneficiaries under a trust , as has already been seen , are interests in property closely analogous to legal interests , and but little inferior to them in security . |
| 4 | After an initial successful assault on wages by employers in the early 1920s , the trade unions revealed remarkable resilience in staving off wage reductions after the General Strike , as has already been suggested . |
| 5 | As has already been said , if the bereaved person has a supportive family or friends or somewhere like a church group where they can talk about their response to loss in an open way then this may be all the help they need . |
| 6 | Dick had been assistant editor of the New Statesman from 1938 to 1955 and , as has already been explained , was no friend of the leading men of the Labour party in the years after the War . |
| 7 | They proposed a scheme to replace the existing direct-grant scheme , but the Ministry preferred plans of its own and , as has already been explained , gave effect to them . |
| 8 | Smith 's ran lending libraries , as has already been mentioned , but the real giant of the Victorian age was Mudie 's . |
| 9 | As has already been suggested , their record does not inspire confidence . |
| 10 | These are common enough , since , as has already been mentioned , a large proportion of the world 's volcanoes are situated in or below the oceans . |
| 11 | They are not designed basically to protect animals and , as has already been mentioned , they depend a great deal upon the use of the animal . |
| 12 | Christopher Tricky , seen struggling one day to remove an old tree stump near his hovel at the park gate , became , as has already been noted , the subject of ‘ Simon Lee , the Old Huntsman ’ ; a remark from Tom Poole led to ‘ The Idiot Boy ’ ; ‘ The Last of the Flock ’ told the story of a Holford shepherd found weeping in the road ; and ‘ The Thorn ’ was inspired by a weather-beaten hawthorn seen ‘ on the ridge of Quantock Hill ’ . |
| 13 | As has already been mentioned , young children are particularly at risk , and they are dependent on adults to protect them from the potential dangers in their home environment . |
| 14 | When they become more active and curious , crawling babies and toddlers are increasingly vulnerable to accidents in the home and , as has already been described , falls , burns , scalds and accidental poisoning are major causes of injury and death at this stage of the lifespan . |
| 15 | There are all the industrial hazards such as excessive noise , polluted air and contamination of water by industrial waste and , as has already been described in detail , a large-scale problem in the form of accidents . |
| 16 | As has already been indicated , the planning processes of each company had previously been examined in a research study carried out at the London Business School . |
| 17 | There is , in most cases , very little to be gained from Saxon local documents for , as has already been pointed out , bynames were few and far between in pre-Conquest England . |
| 18 | However , as has already been mentioned , co-operation is ineffective when local councils find their housing budgets so severely pruned . |
| 19 | As has already been suggested , the management of a school is concerned primarily with the development of its pupils . |
| 20 | This is important in the treatment of self-poisoning patients because , as has already been noted , they are at times regarded with hostility by hospital staff ( p. 22 ) , and by relatives and friends ( p. 23 ) . |
| 21 | As has already been indicated , the modern vogue is for leviathan departments , headed by a Secretary of State and comprising a number of Ministries . |
| 22 | As has already been described ( Chapter 4 ) , matter is composed of particles which may or may not be charged . |
| 23 | Since , as has already been shown , all planes or levels of the individual are interrelated , and imbalances or blocks at one level can affect all the others , treatment at the spiritual level can have a beneficial effect also on the mental , emotional and physical levels . |
| 24 | Either , as has already been explained , the grounds for referral are disputed by the parents or the children , or a child may be unable to understand the grounds through age or mental incapacity . |
| 25 | One family is , as has already been said , a Quaker family ; another family belongs to the Church of Scotland , and one family is Baptist . |
| 26 | As has already been noted , James Thomson opened his books with a candle-snuffer , and Wordsworth with a greasy butter-knife . |
| 27 | As has already been seen , embalming was not a cheap process . |
| 28 | As has already been stated , the great majority of bodies were not embalmed , but put into a lined coffin , whose mattress overlaid a quantity of sawdust , wood shavings and bran to soak up any leakage associated with putrefaction . |
| 29 | It softened the blow to local people however by emphasizing that the Ringaskiddy dump was only a temporary solution : ‘ The dump at Ringaskiddy is , as has already been made clear and accepted , simply a short-term temporary dump ’ . |
| 30 | Translation often made matters worse , since this tended to be the responsibility of people whose knowledge of English was inadequate for the task : as has already been noted , phrases or words in the original text were frequently left in English . |