Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reactions by pluralists to Marxist analysis of the Japanese state have rarely been characterized by rigorous argument . |
| 2 | This suggests that the whole tool-kit of genes evolved just once , and has since been transferred from one kind of prokaryote to another . |
| 3 | Quicksons has since been cleared of criminal negligence , but the Masons are determined that Ryan is compensated for his injuries . |
| 4 | Gavin , since been dismissed by local government union Nalgo , was a full-time union official representing thousands of council employees . |
| 5 | School- teachers all over Sarawak who supported the PBDS have since been threatened with disciplinary action . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This view has since been reflected in official commentary during and after the MTFS . |
| 9 | The features and functions of this recitation style of teaching have since been identified in greater detail . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And there was huge euphoria when the Berlin Wall was , was knocked down , and in a way , we 've also heard recently that the gilt has perhaps been knocked off that ge , gingerbread as , as the real economic truths are hitting home . |
| 12 | It sounds to a man 's understanding as if women had hitherto been kept in disagreeable subjection to the stronger and sterner sex . |
| 13 | Once you 've seen the production , in many ways an unexpected one , you 'll understand that Mr Hall is n't being pretentious and that Mr Hoffman has n't suddenly been struck by false modesty . |
| 14 | But then here we are twenty thirty years on and those of us who had that upbringing about the purity of that Royal Family that 's suddenly been confronted with this image that 's anything but that and you know and I 'm , and I , and it 's been and now you have the tabloids saying giving you pictorial evidence of its any , any but that and so that whole erm image , view that a lot of Britons grew up with has gone , it 's been |
| 15 | Benjamin 's mother was lying paralysed in Shoreditch Workhouse even as the portrait was being executed , and he himself had only been saved from abject poverty after his father 's premature death by the generous good offices of his uncle , Samuel Hasted . |
| 16 | However , it has only been tested on one domain . |
| 17 | In practice micro-corporatism of this sort has only been undertaken with any consistency by local government and their agencies ( such as the enterprise boards ) or by the development agencies ( see , for example , Greater London Council ( 1985 ) and Murray ( 1987 ) ) . |
| 18 | In the past members wanting to enforce rights against their union were burdened with the costs of litigation , which may have only been mitigated to some extent by the availability of legal aid . |
| 19 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 20 | The defences at Alcester have only been found at one point on the north-west side by the river , and are of two periods with a wall supported by timber piles , close enough to the river bank as not to need a ditch system at this point . |
| 21 | Plenty of them had only been raped over one period of 24 hours but never less than by six or seven men . |
| 22 | ‘ In no case where we interviewed had the woman only been raped by one man . |
| 23 | Green belts have been the major instrument of planning in fringe areas , having long been advocated by leading planning theorists such as Unwin and Howard . |
| 24 | It has long been argued by some accounting theorists that business accounts should also include an opportunity cost of capital in the income statement . |
| 25 | The pacta tertiis rule ( which protects non-parties to a treaty from having the treaty imposed upon them ) has long been accepted in international law . |
| 26 | While advertising had long been favoured by British industry , public relations was hardly used until the beginning of the 1950s . |
| 27 | The latter point has of course long been recognised in academic psychology and from the 1950s onwards considerable effort was expended attempting to identify the unique features of creativity . |
| 28 | Soldiers have long been described in Chinese history as economic leeches and political predators . |
| 29 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 30 | Aube wines had long been used by several Champagne houses , albeit on the quiet , and with no delimited region fixed the practice began to increase . |