Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They operate under Royal Charters , appoint their own staff , decide on their own admissions policies and have traditionally had academic freedom in their teaching and research , though the last of these has arguably been eroded in recent years by the ‘ earmarking ’ of government funds for specific subjects , and the need to seek sponsors for particular projects . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The result is that we know nothing about it except its external face , how its economy worked , and that has mostly been described by unsympathetic observers . |
| 4 | Seismic confirmation has since been extended to other areas ( Cook et al. 1981 ; Iverson and Smithson 1983 ; Brown et al. 1983 ) . |
| 5 | In the National Health Service it was introduced in 1986 for General Managers and has since been extended to other levels of management . |
| 6 | The shadow fundholding scheme has since been extended to small practices and to a trial of fundholding for all services except accident and emergency . |
| 7 | National boundaries have changed , sometimes dramatically , over the last hundred years , and some traditional rug-producing countries have since been absorbed into modern states . |
| 8 | In the Septizonium , an ancient Roman temple at the south-east corner of the Palatine , which had long since been annexed for other uses , safe from outside interference and imperial troops , for it was still possible for emperors to attempt to interfere with elections , the election commenced after each cardinal had celebrated mass and all of them had exchanged the kiss of peace . |
| 9 | Besides the straight eurobond , the market has been the location of a number of key product innovations , many of which have since been adopted in domestic markets . |
| 10 | On the few stumps that remained of Verdun 's noble forests on the Right Bank , the bark either hung down in strips , or else had long since been consumed by half-starved pack-horses . |
| 11 | Although the borders had officially been closed on May 2 , 1989 , they had since been crossed by large numbers of Somali refugees , some of whom were now returning home . |
| 12 | The participatory nature of the project has since been copied by other groups in different parts of the USA and many of the original participants have helped to encourage and train new people in other areas of their own states to find out more about ownership patterns in their home areas Highlander has responded to calls from other groups , and has acted as a clearing house for information and to make connections between interested parties . |
| 13 | It was a positive answer to an appalling problem that has since been copied in different forms by many other industries . |
| 14 | Latterly , until its closure in 1963 , it was used by the permanent-way department , and has since been sold for industrial purposes . |
| 15 | Their map has since been superseded by photographic atlases . |
| 16 | While both of those systems were initially developed in the USA , and have since been used in other countries with varying degrees of success , many of the claims made on their behalf have failed to materialize . |
| 17 | Numerous further endoscopic biopsies of enlarged papillas in FAP patients have since been performed with standard forceps without complication . |
| 18 | The offer had effectively been rejected by Palestinian negotiators at the April bilateral round . |
| 19 | Moreover , for large numbers of individuals the new per capita charge represented a considerable increase over their equivalent share of the rates which had hitherto been based on notional values of the homes which they occupied . |
| 20 | At the IMF 's suggestion , the government was to consider introducing burley as a cash crop for small farmers ; production had hitherto been restricted to commercial estates . |
| 21 | The construction of a large grammar represents a major problem in it 's own right which has only been attempted by well-funded projects . |
| 22 | Unfortunately the detailed work on which that revision is itself based has only been published in Soviet journals in Russian , so has not stood the test of scrutiny by Western astronomers . |
| 23 | While it remains to be seen which , if any , of these options is adopted , it is not very encouraging that in recent years a number of offers of adoption have apparently been made by national bodies , only to be discouraged by the DES . |
| 24 | A disciplined , regular army was about to drive the gunmen from streets which had for so long been ruled by rival guerrillas exacting their own terrible day-to-day justice . |
| 25 | Assam , in common with other north-eastern states , had long been troubled by secessionist groups . |
| 26 | Iraq and Iran have long been regarded as strategic counterweights . |
| 27 | It has long been argued by feminist critics that ‘ community care ’ is merely a euphemism for care by the family — which in turn means care by women . |
| 28 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 29 | Members of the Aetherius Society — who think that Earth has long been visited by benevolent travellers from outer space — believe that Ben Macdhui houses an underground dome-shaped auditorium visited by aliens . |
| 30 | Kanamycin is included in the guidelines , but this has long been superseded by other aminoglycosides . |