Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 Reactions by pluralists to Marxist analysis of the Japanese state have rarely been characterized by rigorous argument .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Quicksons has since been cleared of criminal negligence , but the Masons are determined that Ryan is compensated for his injuries .
6 Gavin , since been dismissed by local government union Nalgo , was a full-time union official representing thousands of council employees .
7 Seismic confirmation has since been extended to other areas ( Cook et al. 1981 ; Iverson and Smithson 1983 ; Brown et al. 1983 ) .
8 In the National Health Service it was introduced in 1986 for General Managers and has since been extended to other levels of management .
9 The shadow fundholding scheme has since been extended to small practices and to a trial of fundholding for all services except accident and emergency .
10 National boundaries have changed , sometimes dramatically , over the last hundred years , and some traditional rug-producing countries have since been absorbed into modern states .
11 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 .
12 School- teachers all over Sarawak who supported the PBDS have since been threatened with disciplinary action .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 ) .
17 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 .
18 It was a positive answer to an appalling problem that has since been copied in different forms by many other industries .
19 Latterly , until its closure in 1963 , it was used by the permanent-way department , and has since been sold for industrial purposes .
20 Their map has since been superseded by photographic atlases .
21 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 .
22 This view has since been reflected in official commentary during and after the MTFS .
23 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 .
24 Numerous further endoscopic biopsies of enlarged papillas in FAP patients have since been performed with standard forceps without complication .
25 The offer had effectively been rejected by Palestinian negotiators at the April bilateral round .
26 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 .
27 It sounds to a man 's understanding as if women had hitherto been kept in disagreeable subjection to the stronger and sterner sex .
28 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 .
29 The ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) was heavily defeated in two by-elections , on Feb. 9 and on March 5 , in what had hitherto been regarded as safe LDP constituencies .
30 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 .
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