Example sentences of "[adv] been [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His tenacious belief in the venture by keeping it running cost him heavy personal financial loss and his ‘ nursing ’ of this satire on operetta that has rarely been equalledis largely forgotten ( but not by me ) . |
| 2 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 3 | Elections to the Knesset held on Nov. 1 , 1988 , resulted in deadlock between the two main parties , Likud and the Labour Party , which had hitherto been partners along with a number of minor parties in a coalition government formed following the last , similarly inconclusive elections in 1984 . |
| 4 | At a stroke , we might almost say , political ideas which had only been aspirations or dreams in the minds of philosophers or popular radicals , were placed on the agenda of real politics , not only in France or even Europe , but globally . |
| 5 | The group is still looking for possible partners for its optronics operations , though it insists that so far there have only been talks , not negotiations . |
| 6 | The group is still looking for possible partners for its optronics operations , though it insists that so far there have only been talks , not negotiations . |
| 7 | As he had thought ‘ Coventry ’ had only been starters , one by one the names of our principal cities were mentioned . |
| 8 | Steve could n't have gone straight out so quickly , it had only been seconds before she had called again . |
| 9 | Places such as Ceylon , Colombo , Port Said , the Suez Canal , had only been names in textbooks and beyond her wildest dreams . |
| 10 | Within the overall Upward trend there have naturally been fluctuations and current and capital expenditure have not always behaved in the same manner . |
| 11 | But the rivers that keep the lake fresh are required for agriculture ; and there have long been plans to dam them . |
| 12 | Whether or not the USSR will increase oil exports and whether it can do so have long been areas of heated debate . |
| 13 | This may be seen as a move to make international law into proper law , or at least international law with one of its essential purposes , the control of force , and , of course , there have long been laws to restrict the type and degree of force used even in legitimate war , and some restrictions on the very legality of wars , for instance when they are in contravention of treaties . |
| 14 | There have long been stories of mysterious sounds at sea : haunted eerie calls in the night , mermaids singing , sirens luring sailors on to the rocks . |
| 15 | There have long been stories of human giants in legend and mythology . |
| 16 | The donor is Mr James Campbell , of the Kilberry family who have long been experts on piobaireachd . |
| 17 | The third principle is one that the Danes have long been sticklers for — the democratic accountability of European government . |
| 18 | It was small wonder that anti-war and pacifist groups flourished in the labour movement of the time , though rarely among seamen and , it seems , hardly at all among their leaders , though initially " hating the Hun " was far from easy , for German seamen had long been colleagues and comrades , not only aboard ship , but also in organisations affiliated to the International Transport Workers ' Federation . |
| 19 | There have long been rumours of putting bolts on Bosigran routes where the belays are difficult to arrange . |
| 20 | Social and economic inequality have long been features of our society , but such inequality does not always have the same implications for health status . |
| 21 | There had long been bickerings between the monks of the cathedral church at Canterbury and the neighbouring monastery of St Augustine 's just outside the city wall . |
| 22 | In reality , like the Visigoths , they had long been neighbours of the Romans . |
| 23 | He put out his arms and caught her and held her , and they stood there on the gravel path in the grounds of Hilderbridge General Hospital , embraced as if they had long been lovers and had known each other with profound emotion and physical joy and had been parted only to meet again now , by chance , so felicitously . |
| 24 | The film industry and the export of works of art , so far primarily the joint responsibility of the OAL and the Department of Trade and Industry , have long been candidates for transfer to an enlarged arts department . |
| 25 | Germany , Spain , Greece , Portugal and Italy have all been dictatorships in the last fifty years , some of them recently . |
| 26 | We had all been prisoners long enough to know that you must allow people to be unbalanced if they felt like it . |
| 27 | The supermarket , the fast-food joint , the parking lot have all been projects of the practice : but a Macdonalds which floats , a parking lot with 20 cars deeply buried under asphalt , and its most celebrated work , the series of catalogue stores for the Best company where boxes are smashed into and eroded , with trees growing through them , façades peel or tilt , distorting the relationships between the predictable elements of the landscape . |
| 28 | As delirium receded , she knew it had all been dreams . |
| 29 | France , Spain and Italy have all been stalwarts of the EC . |
| 30 | It had all been lies , everything men had ever told us ! |