Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trump had been deftly played . |
| 2 | The lack of a comprehensive and up-to-date register of Old Stopfordians had always been keenly felt , and the work of compiling it was entrusted to a small body of Sixth Formers , marshalled by two prefects , E.J. Thomas and T. Volk . |
| 3 | While the nursing staff had been keenly following the implementation of the ENP , some of them did not seem to be familiar with my parameters of practice — I sometimes missed patients that I could have treated because they were not being filtered through to me . |
| 4 | This catalogue raisonné has been keenly awaited for several years ; work began before the artist 's death in 1988 , aged eighty-six . |
| 5 | Of course , this has been keenly misread in our century . |
| 6 | John Knox returned to a tumultuous welcome , having been flatteringly described as a reformer who not merely ‘ lopped the branches of the papistry ’ but struck ‘ at the root , to destroy the whole ’ . |
| 7 | Some redistribution had occurred between 1938 and 1949 , but if one ignores the top 1 per cent of income earners , there had been little change up to 1979 . |
| 8 | Until now , the role of the brain regions associated with Alzheimer 's disease has been little understood ; they are part of what for years was called the ‘ substantia innominata ’ ( region without a name ) because it had no known purpose . |
| 9 | In 1899 , when there was a sharp increase in the number of reported cattle thefts , H. W. Brodhurst , the Government Agent , attributed it to false cases which were instituted because the magistrate was inexperienced : ‘ I therefore attach little importance to this apparent recrudescence of a crime which was once the curse of the Province , but has been little heard of in late years . ’ |
| 10 | That view has been little heard since the 1960s , when London reasserted a traditional suzerainty over theatre and literary publishing , and that so silently , and so naturally , that the reversion passed almost unnoticed . |
| 11 | This poverty was all the worse for the general affluence around it , and until now it had been little noticed by the majority . |
| 12 | The use of multivariate analysis ( common in igneous geochemistry ) has been little applied to modal compositions of sediments , although it offers considerable potential . |
| 13 | In relation to family behaviour one could argue that since this matter has been little regulated no privatization can take place . |
| 14 | And it had been little comfort to realise — since he clearly could n't be bothered to even make the effort to get in touch with her — that her marriage had obviously been a disastrous mistake from the very beginning . |
| 15 | So far there has been little discussion of the superego for the simple reason that there has been little cause to mention it . |
| 16 | If the area is pasture and has been little disturbed , it may be possible to pick out areas of ridge and furrow , and the junction between the arable fields and the rear of the village closes may be detected . |
| 17 | The movements and moult migration of Shelduck in Sussex have been little studied . |
| 18 | A major source will be the abundant Soviet technical literature on statistical practice , which has been little studied in the West . |
| 19 | Many thousand L4 may be present , but their pathogenic significance has been little studied . |
| 20 | At a more intimate and personal level , the balance between independence and dependence raises fascinating issues which have as yet been little explored in relation to old age . |
| 21 | But the impact of vestry policy on population movements and particularly on the supply of labour to industry and its cost has been little explored at parish level . |
| 22 | Current debate surrounding the Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill provides evidence of widespread public concern over these matters , although the social and cultural implications of such developments have so far been little explored . |
| 23 | At first the native community of the Weald may have been little affected by the expansion of the iron industry . |
| 24 | It has been little affected by sex-discrimination legislation . |
| 25 | One of the chief glories of this house is that it has been little altered since it was built around the middle of the sixteenth century . |
| 26 | The experience of the European Convention has been that this procedure has been little used , with most allegations of violations of the Convention commenced through individual petition . |
| 27 | In contrast with the power of a company to purchase its own shares in accordance with that Part , the power to issue redeemable equity shares has been little used and when redeemable shares are to be found they will normally be preference shares . |
| 28 | For example , it is not widely known that there were turntables at both Bishop 's Castle and Stretford Bridge in the line 's early years , though they seem to have been little used and the railway gained its reputation for unusual working practices right from the start . |
| 29 | Stretford Bridge could have been little used after the first few months of the BCR 's life , when passengers presumably had to walk between there and Craven Arms — unless horse-drawn transport was provided along the road . |
| 30 | However , the more fundamental issue ( in the long run ) of sterling and the associated question of the role of the City of London seem to have been little discussed . |