Example sentences of "[adv] been [adj] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theology had long been familiar with this kind of argument , and had on occasion made very extensive use of it . |
| 2 | Here again Suger was reasserting royal supremacy in a world which had long been deaf to such claims . |
| 3 | Arachnologists have long been puzzled by these patches . |
| 4 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 5 | It has not been one of those lives where people are rejected and say , ‘ I 'll show them . ’ |
| 6 | A prisoner had been taken who reported a possibility that the Emperor was with those forces , but the prisoner had not been certain of that fact . |
| 7 | The obvious highlight was Couples 's first major victory in the U.S Masters and the 33-year-old conceded : ‘ I 've not been close to that form since . ’ |
| 8 | The development officer said she felt the project had been unable to help much , because of the attitude of the relatives ; the principal carer had not been relieved in any way , and therefore her preference for institutional care ( without the ability to make it happen ) remained . |
| 9 | Education has not been immune from this process , and some would argue that it has helped to create new social divisions . |
| 10 | And women have not been present in those circles with the result that they have been deprived of the means to participate in the construction of forms of thought which are relevant or adequate to express their own experience , ( Spender , 1981 , p. 3 ) . |
| 11 | Of course he 's not been well for some time and he did n't take care of himself . ’ |
| 12 | Advertisers themselves frequently complain that decisions in apparently similar cases have not been consistent with each other . |
| 13 | Too numerous to list here individually , most were of early-1980s , vintage and had not been airworthy for some time . |
| 14 | Time has not been kind to this view either . |
| 15 | It was felt that to date such support had not been forthcoming in this region due to the prevailing indigenous political bias for private enterprise and to the lack of meaningful local government itself under direct rule . |
| 16 | The British have not been alone in such teaching . |
| 17 | ‘ I hope he 's not been brain-damaged by that blow . ’ |
| 18 | Many churchmen , however , have not been happy with these developments , which have given rise to schisms threatening enough to warrant the Pope 's visit . |
| 19 | The large cities have not been happy with this position and various proposals have been made to meet their objections . |
| 20 | If open hostilities have not commenced with the Nez Perce it is not because they have not been outraged to that degree when ‘ forbearance ceases to be a virtue . ’ |
| 21 | Before he slipped into sleep had he not been aware of another kind of light , too luminous for words , the radiance of an undefined , perhaps indefinable force , spirit or presence which was greater than or beyond himself ? |
| 22 | Indeed , such progress has not been common to all publishers — some still produce little more than typesetting tapes with cryptic codes labelling the various components of each entry , and little or no accompanying software or documentation for their search or extraction . |
| 23 | Since no legislation has been passed to reduce socio-economic inequalities in industrial discipline and since trade union activity has not been concerned with such issues either , it is almost certain that little change has taken place in the years since this study . |
| 24 | The newcomers , of course , have not been responsible for this loss of rural autonomy — indeed , they have been equally affected by the growing remoteness of decision-making . |
| 25 | The Consorzio Venezia Nuova has already been active for some time in redesigning the network of channels in the lagoon , consolidating the barene ( patches of mud flat just above the surface of the water ) and other similar measures . |
| 26 | For him , there is not enough room in life for anything but one-to-one relationships and then as now , Niki has always been better in such relationships than in the goings-on of a board or a team . |
| 27 | Despite the inherent difficulties in comparative work it has been argued that an international perspective has always been implicit to some extent in the study of industrial relations . |
| 28 | It has always been one of those comedies built on character and situation . |
| 29 | However , they were originally scheduled for different nights , but it has always been possible for this scenario to arrise , so why did n't they just schedule the matches to be played at the same time no matter what ? |
| 30 | New Zealand have always been good in this department and that is why we are going there ’ , explained coach Lin . |