Example sentences of "[adv] been [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half-built houses had hitherto been exempt from local taxes and the country was full of new ‘ housing developments ’ , which amounted to little more than forests of concrete stumps and rusty struts and braces . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The McofS has only been involved with two developments so far ( The Kelvin Hall in Glasgow and the Leisure Centre in Dundee — currently being built ) . |
| 4 | Hedley Byrne was considering a substantial advertising programme for a customer which previously had only been involved in limited programmes . |
| 5 | DEC is likely to add an open application programming interface to ACMS , which has previously only been available on VMS-based server platforms . |
| 6 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 7 | I 've only been operational for four months and yet already people are beginning to seek me out . |
| 8 | Lead-free petrol has of course only been popular in recent years . |
| 9 | Theology had long been familiar with this kind of argument , and had on occasion made very extensive use of it . |
| 10 | Here again Suger was reasserting royal supremacy in a world which had long been deaf to such claims . |
| 11 | Arachnologists have long been puzzled by these patches . |
| 12 | Both environmentalists and public health groups have long been worried about toxic discharges from paper mills using chlorine bleach . |
| 13 | I have long been interested in military technology so I was determined to attend the presentation . |
| 14 | Fortunately for him Kennedy had long been interested in British politics , and included Churchill among his heroes . |
| 15 | A small , mountainous country with a population of under three million people , it has long been free from colonial domination . |
| 16 | The inspiration for the experiment was the German Jugendherbergen accommodation which had long been popular with English trampers and cyclists . |
| 17 | But then , those few of Elise 's men friends whom Merrill had met had all been charismatic in one way or another . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | My clothes , hair , ears , trainers had all been full of broken bits of twig … |
| 20 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 21 | It could be improved by including all the results of excavations since 1961 , but this has not been possible for various reasons , the most important of which is that it is no longer the intention to study the results of 367 , but to turn to another event recorded by Ammianus which can be illuminated by this old study and by more recent work . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | These three fungicides are already on a UK Ministry of Agriculture ( MAFF ) list of 100 pesticides up for review , that have not been subject to modern tests . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The domestic banking system has ( since the early 1980s ) been completely free of formal restrictions on the supply of credit and has not been subject to reserve requirements . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |