Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Users who have been successfully running applications on systems which are now nearing the end of their life cycle , such as the NCR Tower , will now be able to right-size to UnixWare platforms . |
| 2 | Over the past seven days , there have been most encouraging reports about Magic Ring , winner of four of his five outings as a two-year-old — although he was disqualified once . |
| 3 | ‘ I am happy to say , ’ Gould wrote to Sir John Franklin , with a somewhat exaggerated show of piety and self-restraint , ‘ that my last trip to the interior has been productive of much that is interesting , having discovered many novelties both in birds and quadrupeds , my whole journeys in fact to these colonies have been most auspicious ones and I return satisfied and especially thankful for what our almighty providence has in his infinite goodness allowed me to see . |
| 4 | Previous record books had been rather austere collections of lists , ’ he recalls . |
| 5 | Such women may have been rather running businesses than producing goods in so far as they relied on journeymen . |
| 6 | For example , in areas close to the sea the newcomers have been predominantly retired couples whose impact i n the local housing market has again caused resentment in those regions where they have become concentrated , such as Devon and Cornwall . |
| 7 | ‘ Since 1987 , 270 Darlington companies have gone out of business and it has been overwhelmingly small companies . |
| 8 | This group may include the distant ancestors of the sharks , but they must have been somewhat ponderous animals compared with the streamlined hunters of modern seas . |
| 9 | There have been only limited studies which directly address the effect of cholesteryl esters on the stability of biologic membranes . |
| 10 | As mentioned before , Mains seemed pleased with the final choice and there have been only muted complaints from about the country — although it would be hard to be too critical 24 hours after a test was won 59–6 . |
| 11 | They took a small boutique on the Left Bank , where hitherto there had been only antique shops , correctly recognizing that the little street , Rue des Saints Pères , was full of ‘ Laura Ashley spirit ’ . |
| 12 | There had been only piecemeal policies of denationalization in 1979–83 , and indeed the Conservatives had been reluctant to replace state monopolies with privately-owned ones . |
| 13 | Gran said that once Wickrithe had been all golden sands . |
| 14 | The blooms usually occur at the end of the summer if there have been long hot spells and settled weather . |
| 15 | He tried to realign retrospectively things he had written many years before , for what at the time had been entirely adequate reasons . |
| 16 | While one third of the people lived near or below a stringently drawn poverty line , there had been nevertheless tangible improvements in the living conditions of the bulk of the people after the squalid upheavals of the earlier phase of industrialisation and urbanisation . |
| 17 | In spite of the social dislocation and consumer privations that Stalinism wrought , it must be said that the ruthless and heavy-handed mobilisation of human and economic resources did succeed in achieving impressive growth rates and in building up a solid industrial infrastructure in what , with the exceptions of Germany and Czechoslovakia , had been largely agrarian countries . |
| 18 | Mr Rivers , I 've been away visiting friends , you know . |
| 19 | The article also states that the burden of proof that a standard term has been individually negotiated falls on the seller or supplier , but given the provisions set out in the previous paragraph , it is hard to see how this burden can ever be discharged , unless there has been an individual negotiation at which both parties actually discussed and wrote out the clause in question for the first time . |
| 20 | Although there have been more comprehensive examinations of the record of the governments , the above four policy areas are of interest because the Conservative government pledged itself to change the direction of policy in them . |
| 21 | In the difficult economic climate of the 1970s and 80s there have been more frequent cries from industry for assistance , which States have not always resisted in their desire to minimise the disruptive effects of economic change . |
| 22 | The reporter did not disclose specific details of their chat , but the disclosure prompted concern that it might have been more confidential matters which could have been overheard . |
| 23 | Since then there have been more new taxes introduced than in any other equivalent peacetime period . |
| 24 | Tory group leader Tony Richmond refuted the figures , saying : ‘ There have been more new houses built in Darlington during the past few years than at any other time in the past . |
| 25 | Tory group leader Tony Richmond refuted the figures , saying : ‘ There have been more new houses built in Darlington during the past few years than at any other time in the past . |
| 26 | Had Schmeichel , the giant Danish international goalkeeper , not intervened and dragged Bruce out of the melee by the scruff of his neck , there might have been more red cards . |
| 27 | In other words , there have been more military coups in underdeveloped than in developed countries . |
| 28 | There have been many aircraft crashes , not at Crowfield , but everywhere , but do n't worry about that you have to remember that there have been more safe landings than crashes . |
| 29 | Marriner for much of the time manages to give the illusion in his clean , sympathetic approach that this is prime Tchaikovsky , and through there have been more rip-roaring accounts of the close , none has been better played . |
| 30 | Perhaps because of their colouring , and also because of their romantic associations with decorative herds roaming half-wild across extensive parklands on gentlemen 's estates in days gone by , there have been more imaginative theories about the origins and development of the two colour-pointed breeds , especially the White Park , than about any other breed in Britain . |