Example sentences of "[adv] been [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bought deals have only been possible with Big Bang and the advent of large well capitalised securities firms , but the risks being taken on are extremely large . |
| 2 | DEC is likely to add an open application programming interface to ACMS , which has previously only been available on VMS-based server platforms . |
| 3 | Theology had long been familiar with this kind of argument , and had on occasion made very extensive use of it . |
| 4 | I have long been interested in military technology so I was determined to attend the presentation . |
| 5 | Fortunately for him Kennedy had long been interested in British politics , and included Churchill among his heroes . |
| 6 | A small , mountainous country with a population of under three million people , it has long been free from colonial domination . |
| 7 | But then , those few of Elise 's men friends whom Merrill had met had all been charismatic in one way or another . |
| 8 | Edinburgh , Glasgow , and London ( particularly Imperial College ) universities have all been involved in major research projects in this area , although the major structural problems had been elucidated in 1906 by scientists from the then Geological Survey of Scotland ( Peach and others . |
| 9 | As we have seen , repeal feminists had not been opposed to moral disciplining but they had promoted it through the more ‘ feminine ’ domain of voluntary agencies , attacking the statist solutions of male professionals . |
| 10 | Suzi 's answer had not been one of unalloyed enthusiasm . |
| 11 | The contract included limits for external financing which had not been subject to overall control previously , and set RENFE a variety of financial objectives including a reduction in its call on state funds . |
| 12 | He described it as " regrettable " that positions taken in the UN Security Council by the EC 's two permanent Security Council members — the UK and France — had not been subject to prior agreement among the 12 EC members . |
| 13 | The market for top quality works by Matisse has not been subject to speculative buying , according to David Nash , head of Sotheby 's New York Impressionist Department . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Education has not been immune from this process , and some would argue that it has helped to create new social divisions . |
| 18 | Despite the blaze of publicity which accompanied the launch of the White Paper , the Government has not been successful in generating support for its proposals . |
| 19 | Although plastic pipe has been widely used for wastes and drains , until recently it has not been suitable for hot water . |
| 20 | The government however continued with just one vice-president and within a few months this post was held by Daniel Arap Moi , a non-Kikuyu who , despite being a member of the Legislative Council , had not been prominent in nationalist politics . |
| 21 | Additionally the political atmosphere has not been conducive to encouraging oil companies to engage in active exploration and development though this still continues despite the pull-out of Exxon and Mobil . |
| 22 | Of course he 's not been well for some time and he did n't take care of himself . ’ |
| 23 | Advertisers themselves frequently complain that decisions in apparently similar cases have not been consistent with each other . |
| 24 | Too numerous to list here individually , most were of early-1980s , vintage and had not been airworthy for some time . |
| 25 | Time has not been kind to this view either . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The British have not been alone in such teaching . |
| 28 | ‘ I hope he 's not been brain-damaged by that blow . ’ |
| 29 | The large cities have not been happy with this position and various proposals have been made to meet their objections . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |