Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Official projections of the spread of Aids have mercifully been revised downwards , but around 50,000 are believed to be infected in Britain , and the disease is pandemic in parts of Africa . |
| 32 | Danny had mercifully been persuaded to leave his ghetto-blaster behind , but this had been against his better judgement , and Rachel soon realised his silence was in fact a form of sulking . |
| 33 | And surviving missals and other documents of the Celtic Church prove to be riddled with excerpts from Judaic apocryphal books and additional texts which had long and rigorously been forbidden by Rome . |
| 34 | Dr McCallum added that she had rarely been asked to help anyone end their life , though relatives sometimes asked , using the argument ‘ you would n't let a dog die in this way ’ . |
| 35 | Despite the principal duality of Irish party political power , the bourgeois structure of the state has rarely been questioned , only the degree of state intervention in the bourgeois economy . |
| 36 | Reactions by pluralists to Marxist analysis of the Japanese state have rarely been characterized by rigorous argument . |
| 37 | Such a huge margin of victory has rarely been seen in a tournament of this class . |
| 38 | According to the outgoing editor , Mr Peter Stanford , she also has glamour of a kind that has rarely been seen in the paper 's musty offices . |
| 39 | Books about sex , illustrated guides to love-making , are also popular and are still considered as novelties in a society where such books have rarely been seen before and where sex was a taboo subject . |
| 40 | The process of creating the record is valuable in its own right ; it brings respect for the contribution of the parent to the learning environment and can provide a level of involvement by the parent which has rarely been seen in our schools . |
| 41 | Anorthosites occur on Earth and Moon , but have rarely been seen in meteorites . |
| 42 | Courtship and mating in the wild have rarely been seen . |
| 43 | The ownership of newspapers has rarely been seen as either an easy or a sure way of acquiring fortunes . |
| 44 | She had rarely been kissed . |
| 45 | Such risks have rarely been emphasised by telephone salesmen at Harvard and elsewhere , except through the compulsory wealth warnings stamped on all Harvard 's contract notes . |
| 46 | Widely considered a routine , if regrettable , fact of war , it has rarely been prosecuted . |
| 47 | For example , they have found that " there is considerable evidence that attitudes to comfort are important in estimating the user 's contribution to conservation … yet these have rarely been explored by research on the effects of feedback " . |
| 48 | Mating itself has very rarely been observed . |
| 49 | Pneumonic signs have rarely been observed , and infections are almost always inapparent , being identified only as necropsy . |
| 50 | Indeed , the permanent absence of humans has rarely been cited as a condition . |
| 51 | This view has rarely been developed by Freud 's critics . |
| 52 | It is generally the case , nevertheless , that in the 30 years since the signing of the Treaty , EC policies have only rarely been developed in a framework which explicitly evaluates the spatial impact of those policies . |
| 53 | Under the existing law , helping someone to die was a criminal offence punishable by up to 12 years ' imprisonment , but this had rarely been invoked in recent years amid great public debate and controversy on the ethics and possible modalities of euthanasia . |
| 54 | LeWitt 's use of geometrical structures dates to 1963 but this vital aspect of his work has rarely been examined in depth in Britain . |
| 55 | So far , this has rarely been done . |
| 56 | There has tended to be an increase in confidence within IIAs , although this has rarely been matched by increasing private-sector investment . |
| 57 | Consequently these questions have rarely been put to younger members of society . |
| 58 | This is also a problem for script recognition , although it has rarely been considered . |
| 59 | In extreme cases of default , powers ( under sections 68 and 99 ) were , and still are , available to the Secretary of State , although they have rarely been used . |
| 60 | It had , in any case , rarely been used . |