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

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1 When so large a part of modern politics , above all in America , is concerned with policies which an insight into the psychology of envy would reveal to be inherently futile , it is perhaps not surprising that the study of that psychology has been instinctively or deliberately neglected .
2 Yet another relevant ideology , which infects judges , governments and the general public in greater or lesser degrees at different times , is the ideology of law and order , which has been notably and provocatively analysed by the Marxist theorist Stuart Hall ( 1979 , 1990 ; Hall et al. , 1979 ) .
3 The tournament has been well and truly annexed by the British for the past four years , and the form book still favours a non-American winner this time .
4 Now , in our classless society , it has been well and truly democratised .
5 Christ 's message of peace and goodwill to all men has been well and truly eclipsed by today 's stars .
6 But by the time crime categories or definitions have been established , the most important foundation stone of ‘ our crime problem ’ has been well and truly buried in cement , beyond the reach of any liberal ‘ scientific ’ shovel .
7 This is an area in which young people 's enthusiasm has been well and truly aroused at school .
8 However , the development of Australian unions has been markedly and uniquely influenced by the institutional support given to them by the federal arbitration system which has long played a fundamental role in wage-determination and the settlement of disputes ( see Chapter 5 ) .
9 Like other infant sciences , the science of international politics has been markedly and frankly utopian .
10 I believe that the Bill , as it goes to another place , has been properly and fully scrutinised on Second Reading and in Committee — as will be shown in Hansard .
11 ‘ Someone has been here and fairly recently . ’
12 This year just under 100 students will receive their first degrees at Stirling and Chief Careers Advisor Walter Abbott , who retires this summer , can look back and take pride in the fact that he and his small team in the careers office have had the opportunity to help prepare 16,000 students for ‘ life after Uni ’ during the 24 years that Walter has been here and seen the University grow .
13 The rational expectations hypothesis challenges macroeconomists of widely differing outlook to re-examine the short-run dynamics of their respective models so as to check that no assumption of irrational behaviour has been implicitly or inadvertently embedded within the structure of the model .
14 The keep , which is 120 feet high , has been slowly and accurately restored in recent years , but the rest of the castle is a shell , with the outlines of the rooms that ran inwards from the walls alone visible and a single stairway up one of the buttresses on to the crumbling battlements .
15 In past centuries , when few statutes were enacted , common law constituted the main body of English law ; today , it has been largely but not wholly displaced by statute law .
16 To suppose that this century can fix the definition of democracy or , even more arrogantly , that it is in this century that democracy has been finally and definitively realized , is to be blind not only to the probabilities of the future but also to the certainties of the past .
17 The prolific contemporary literature about Mary , which has been extensively and effectively reviewed by J. E. Phillips , Images of a Queen , was all understandable enough .
18 The notion of the fabliau being a form of linguistic game is one that has been extensively and productively explored in relatively recent scholarship .
19 In short , if agriculture is judged by the criteria of performance applied to manufacturing industry , there is every reason to argue that its output has been artificially and substantially inflated for the whole period since 1950 .
20 The ridged and tufted counterpane has been carefully and frequently laundered .
21 The first question begs many others — but those of us who are familiar with some of the history of the disabled people 's movement will recognise that today 's ‘ disability professionals ’ are on a career path which has been carefully and painstakingly carved out by generations of their predecessors .
22 It is at this ‘ point-of-sale ’ that consumers make their choice , a subject which has been carefully and extensively researched by Stoddard Templeton .
23 This simple rule , embodied in the Rights of Way Act , which on its wording at least applies to ways by water as well as land , states that to recognize a way as public one needs only to show that it has been freely and openly used by the public for 20 years .
24 During the last few years the notion of ‘ citizenship ’ has been increasingly and widely discussed amongst different constituencies addressing different aspects of the topic , with somewhat confusing consequences .
25 A great deal of effort has been put into making sure that what the examiner requests has been clearly and unambiguously stated .
26 As so often , one sees the survival of a social custom long after its original purpose has been wholly or partly superseded .
27 The drug , sulphadimidine , a prescription antibiotic used to control epidemics of respiratory disease in closely packed pig units , has been heavily and widely misused by UK farmers .
28 Walpole , who has been traditionally and perhaps wrongly regarded as the first British Prime Minister , always took pains to deny that he occupied such a position .
29 Certainly the extent of response from the public in lobbying their MPs and sending petitions to Parliament or the MoD has been above and beyond anything that the mandarins could have expected .
30 Such decisions of the Commission may be challenged before the European Court , provided that the complainant company has been directly and adversely affected by the conduct of which complaint has been made .
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