Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas nuclear weaponry had effectively only been in the hands of the U.S.A. , the development of such weapons by other nations had been increasing , so at a meeting , in December 1962 , at Nassau , Prime minister Harold Macmillan and President Kennedy , hammered out an agreement whereby Britain abandoned its plans for ‘ Skybolt ’ in return for the U.S.A. ‘ Polaris ’ missile for use by British nuclear submarines . |
| 2 | The impact of the Thatcher government 's new thinking has most obviously been felt in the privatization programme for the state-owned and state-provided services . |
| 3 | Female choice has only properly been tested for in the case of one such character , the long tail of a species of widow bird , and it was confirmed to be operating . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had n't been doing and er reckon he and er think I 'm and that was it so right Been driving since he was nineteen |
| 6 | That the classical wooden-bodied Pullman cars of earlier days had long since been split up and sold or scrapped was no deterrent . |
| 7 | He has proved himself as a coach , and any doubts harboured at Anfield about his judgement have long since been swept away . |
| 8 | The problem is the familiar one when trying to establish the exact fate of millions of Stalin 's victims : detailed records of the security police , if they ever existed , have probably long since been destroyed . |
| 9 | Her red hair was a beacon in the night — a flame in which he had long since been charred . |
| 10 | The mills are all but gone , the chimneys felled ; the air is clean , the town is green with trees and wide spaces ; it is proper , neat , contained ; cobbles , clogs and polluted drizzle from the thundering cotton-mills have long since been abolished . |
| 11 | He acquired the rudiments of the game in a tougher prep school than many of his Western contemporaries who have long since been cosseted by snooker 's new-found respectability . |
| 12 | The palm court , both vegetation and orchestra , has long since been repossessed . |
| 13 | It has long since been turned into a pond and moat . |
| 14 | These ancestors have long since been at rest , but during their time around Pelynt there was between them bitter jealousy , treachery and hatred , leading even to murder . |
| 15 | Bentley School was built 150 years ago on half an acre of land given by Bishop Sumner of Winchester but its history prior to 1882 is almost non-existent since the log books for the early years have long since been lost . |
| 16 | The more fertile areas of farmland along the coast had long since been taken over by German farmers . |
| 17 | There the Kaszubians occupied smallholdings ; all the better farmland towards the coast had long since been taken over by the Germans . |
| 18 | The special edition of the journal had long since been published by the time I got the material out of Iraq . ) |
| 19 | If hunting had once been in the red bitch 's blood it had long since been bred out and forgotten . |
| 20 | They had turned her pillow so that it was fresh , and the tawdry finery had long since been replaced by a smooth , pale quilt that reached to her breast . |
| 21 | Six months later , Delaney had lit tie doubt that the tragic explosion of an oil tanker in mid ocean would have long since been forgotten , and Connors , or whoever , would be in the New Year 's Honours List . |
| 22 | The manor has long since been broken up and sold off and Andrew now only holds small pieces of land , though these include some of the grass and trees where the proclamation is made . |
| 23 | Terms of trade have long since been abandoned ; provisions relating to Scottish professors have long been ignored and , as we have seen , the united established Irish Church has been severed and disestablished in Ireland . |
| 24 | Initially a technique for scientific research and surveys , the equipment was heavy due to the use of plate cameras , and the method of mounting , the type of kite and means of triggering the shutter have long since been surpassed . |
| 25 | But to the extent that rationality continues to prevail , we have long since been submitting all codes to ‘ Be aware ’ , without noticing that this imperative is creative of values as well as destructive . |
| 26 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 27 | If Robson Rhodes had not decided to make fundamental changes in its operating style five years ago , the chances are that it would have long since been swallowed up by one of its rivals . |
| 28 | It was a painful sacrifice for the Harvey Lane Church to relinquish their beloved pastor but they recognised that ‘ his heart had long since been set ’ upon work overseas . |
| 29 | He arrived in the West Country after a long train journey from his Cleveland home to admit that the Fedora , ever-present symbol of Crystal Palace 's 1976 FA Cup run , has long since been auctioned off for £1,500 to charity . |
| 30 | He reached up to his skull as if to seize the beads which had once adorned his scalp , though those had long since been shorn off along with his excess of black greasy hair ; as if to tug those and release an inner pressure . |