Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon .
2 By then it was clear that the relaxation of tensions between East and West had gone far beyond the détente of the 1970s , when the Atlantic alliance and Warsaw Pact had remained strong and tensions had been eased only against a background of continuing ideological competition between the two sides .
3 Pressures on household and corporate borrowers have been eased significantly since last October by a series of interest rate reductions , which have reduced base rates by a cumulative four and a half percentage points to date .
4 By 1914 the exchanges were filling 3,000 vacancies a day , but these would perhaps have been filled even in their absence .
5 The big cup with the chipped handle had been filled almost to its brim with milky cocoa .
6 Smiling broadly , and displaying the naughty element of her nature , which had been hidden previously behind the candy-coated exterior , she teased reporters .
7 You can even scan for viruses that would normally be missed by a standard scanner because it would have been hidden away in an archive file .
8 These have been hidden here by a little firm , and I think I know whose it was ! ’
9 But by the time the Israelites first passed that way , towards , probably , the end of the thirteenth century BCE , that tower , now exposed to view by the archaeologist 's shovel , would have been hidden deep beneath the ground , buried beneath layer after layer of the remains of a series of settlements .
10 So far as observation and knowledge of the world is concerned , the beliefs of the northern peoples have been dismissed equally by the Russian Orthodox Church and by the Communists as benighted superstition which imprisoned them mentally in a fear of evil spirits .
11 The mines had suffered disruption since July and 220 workers had been dismissed earlier for taking industrial action , and according to the managing director at least two weeks ' production had been lost .
12 As a BCP politburo and secretariat member until mid-1988 , he had been widely regarded as the person most likely to lead political reform in Bulgaria , but he had been dismissed abruptly from the party leadership in July 1988 [ see p. 36304 ] .
13 So far the Yugoslav civil war has been waged mainly by activist minorities plus the professionals .
14 The differential impact of national and industry environmental forces upon the structure , process and outcomes of industrial relations have been examined empirically for the important metalworking industry across five countries .
15 The distribution has been examined principally within the context of wind blown dune sands ( Bagnold & Barndorff-Nielsen , 1980 ; Christiansen , 1984 ) for which it was claimed the hyperbolic function encompassed the extreme values of the size distribution tails better than the log-normal plot .
16 The east-west road has only been examined once since the 1920s , during excavations on the west gate , where it evidently comprised three separate surfaces ; the latest ( road III ) can probably be identified with Jack and Hayter 's later roadway ; the middle one ( II ) was contemporary with the mid fourth-century gate and may be a localized resurfacing ; while the lowest ( I ) must represent the east-west route in the preceding centuries .
17 But , besides this we found those who had not been stopped etc. at all still reflected the overall differences between races — Blacks being least favourable , Asians most favourable , with Whites being sometimes closer to Blacks and sometimes closer to Asians .
18 ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it .
19 The march of the matriarchal society may have been stopped here in the United Kingdom , but it is but a temporary halt , a moment in time .
20 ‘ If you were brought up in Brixton or Hackney , and have been stopped regularly for no reason by the police , you are bound to view them with a bit of hatred ’ … .
21 ‘ while the relation of a husband to his wife is not one of influence , and no presumption exists of undue influence , it has never been divested completely of what may be called equitable presumptions of an invalidating tendency .
22 By now it was early afternoon and Rick ( who had been catching consistently on the corn ) and I decided we were getting peckish , so , being nominated ’ chef of the week ’ I had to sort out the dinner .
23 Hu Jiwei had been recalled earlier by the Sichuan provincial people 's congress for his " illegal role in the turmoil " of May and June 1989 when he had attempted to call an emergency meeting of the NPC Standing Committee .
24 The layers of horn and yew had been blended together with such care that it was hard to tell which was set upon which .
25 They had also been joined here by a number of " White " emigres from outside the USSR , that is to say anti-Communists who had gone into exile during or after the Civil War of 1918–20 and had subsequently lived in various European countries .
26 I 've been joined today by Professor Mike Springford , Professor of Experimental Physics at the University , and Chairman of the Services for Industry Coordinating Group , and John Golds , the University 's Industrial Liaison Officer .
27 During the long night , the car would have been joined silently by another .
28 At this time of day , however , when law and equity have been joined together for over 70 years , principles must be reconsidered in the light of their combined effect .
29 The dishwasher has been tucked away in the central island and is opposite the main sink , so dishes can be quickly rinsed and put out of sight .
30 And match referee Deryck Murray remains baffled as to why his report has been tucked away in some International Cricket Council file .
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