Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reactions by pluralists to Marxist analysis of the Japanese state have rarely been characterized by rigorous argument . |
| 2 | Quicksons has since been cleared of criminal negligence , but the Masons are determined that Ryan is compensated for his injuries . |
| 3 | Gavin , since been dismissed by local government union Nalgo , was a full-time union official representing thousands of council employees . |
| 4 | School- teachers all over Sarawak who supported the PBDS have since been threatened with disciplinary action . |
| 5 | In one corner we put a box where the bird could shelter , and we covered this with corrugated iron sheeting ( though it 's since been replaced with corrugated plastic ) . |
| 6 | The old chestnut of rating a disk drive by its Data Access Time , or Average Seek Time has long since been overtaken by modern drive technology . |
| 7 | This view has since been reflected in official commentary during and after the MTFS . |
| 8 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 9 | It sounds to a man 's understanding as if women had hitherto been kept in disagreeable subjection to the stronger and sterner sex . |
| 10 | Once you 've seen the production , in many ways an unexpected one , you 'll understand that Mr Hall is n't being pretentious and that Mr Hoffman has n't suddenly been struck by false modesty . |
| 11 | Benjamin 's mother was lying paralysed in Shoreditch Workhouse even as the portrait was being executed , and he himself had only been saved from abject poverty after his father 's premature death by the generous good offices of his uncle , Samuel Hasted . |
| 12 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 13 | The mobile radio truck , belonging to the Mass Communications Organization of Thailand , had apparently been interfering with military radio frequencies , and the armed forces sought the removal from the Cabinet of Police Capt. Chalerm Yubamrung , a Minister attached to the Prime Minister 's Office , when Chalerm publicly criticized the military over the affair . |
| 14 | Green belts have been the major instrument of planning in fringe areas , having long been advocated by leading planning theorists such as Unwin and Howard . |
| 15 | The pacta tertiis rule ( which protects non-parties to a treaty from having the treaty imposed upon them ) has long been accepted in international law . |
| 16 | While advertising had long been favoured by British industry , public relations was hardly used until the beginning of the 1950s . |
| 17 | The latter point has of course long been recognised in academic psychology and from the 1950s onwards considerable effort was expended attempting to identify the unique features of creativity . |
| 18 | Soldiers have long been described in Chinese history as economic leeches and political predators . |
| 19 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 20 | A bustling market , dark , smokey houses and a busy wharf have all been re-created in accurate detail so that you can experience in sight , sound and smell exactly what it was like to live and work in the Viking city of Jorvik . |
| 21 | ‘ Most of them would have treated it as a nice little Christmas story about this powerful but sad woman with an unhappy family Now it 's all been turned into major crisis . ’ |
| 22 | Transitory increases in the prevalence of HIV antibody have all been explained by imported infection . |
| 23 | South America , China and areas of south-east Asia have all been identified as key development regions . |
| 24 | For men , body mass index , cigarette smoking , glucose intolerance , left ventricular hypertrophy on the electrocardiogram ( ECG ) , increased serum cholesterol , and raised systolic blood pressure have all been identified as independent risk factors . |
| 25 | Only a few years earlier , the new universities had all been started through academic planning boards which established in general terms their objectives … |
| 26 | It was possible that , like many of the casual spectators , the key members of the crew had all been frozen into temporary immobility by the looming presence of the ovoid , but Rostov was inclined to suspect the convenience of such a coincidence . |
| 27 | Keith Bill ( Works Director ) , Steve Higgins ( Retail Director — Field Sales ) and Jack Millar ( Retail Director — Administration and Key Accounts ) have all been promoted from divisional director level to full board directors . |
| 28 | Taxes on income and capital , on commercial incentives , and so on , have all been tried without real effect . |
| 29 | As well as operating trains ( which carry over 150,000 passengers p.a. ) , the entire Railway , engines , coaches , track , stations and equipment , have all been restored from total dereliction to their present condition , a remarkable example of what can be achieved by qualified volunteers . |
| 30 | The high peaks , the glaciers , the lowland valleys , the paddy fields , the people , the culture and the colour have all been captured to equal perfection . |