Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagination was in short supply , and the poverty of yesterday had been banished from their memories , the happy-go-luckiness along with the hardships . |
| 2 | The Maniots , who trace descent from them , boast of never having been subdued by Slav or Turk . |
| 3 | The first limiting factor is the simplistic method that until now has been employed in the assessment of the generalisation ability of connectionist models , together with a lack of research on generalisation per se . |
| 4 | His entire premiership until now has been devoted to winning the election . |
| 5 | They have presented separate lists of candidates to the 270-seat Majlis , or parliament , which until now has been dominated by radicals . |
| 6 | The reform , which came into force on Jan. 1 , 1990 , allowed the option of civil marriage and provided for family law courts to rule on divorce cases which until then had been decided by church courts . |
| 7 | Borrowing from overseas has been affected by the same set of factors . |
| 8 | This document revealed that ever since her father 's death , Miss Honey had in fact been the rightful owner of a property on the edge of the village known as The Red House , which until recently had been occupied by a Miss Agatha Trunchbull . |
| 9 | , The largest flying boat in the world only made one flight ( of about a mile in length at a height of about eighty feet ) , and until recently has been preserved within an aluminium-dome museum , close to the Queen Mary in Long Beach , California . |
| 10 | I do n't think the theatre 's ever been endowed with a great deal of fundings but one or two companies in the town that have been prepared to fund obviously the one that strikes me is Gilbey 's cos the Gilbey bar I mean that was funded and like they 've been over the years they have given money even fact as a sad note cos Gilbey 's have actually demised now erm General Portfolio have actually taken on the role in Harlow of funding many things if you actually look all most things that have sponsored until recently have been sponsored by General Portfolio so they 've been to the fore in er fundering funding . |
| 11 | Measurement of internal friction such as those referred to above have been made for numerous polymers , and relaxation spectra for commonly used materials are listed in detail in the book by McCrum , read & Williams ( 1967 ) and in Ferry 's book . |
| 12 | It is in fact a movement : a coming together of teachers whose common conviction it is that teaching up to now has been conducted in far too random and amateurish a fashion , based at best on a kind of inspired guesswork , and that it ought to be possible by putting our minds to it , and applying the sort of thinking that is successful in other fields , to do a better job than before . |
| 13 | The DSD levies , which up to now have been based on the size of the package , are due to rise sharply in the autumn , and will be higher on the materials which have proved hardest to recycle , especially plastic . |
| 14 | Laura 's Beau was third last year but has been in rotten form since then having been plagued by blood trouble . |
| 15 | I did some Medau in London before the war but since then have been thwarted by a lack of classes in this area — but — I am always hopeful . |
| 16 | Its transformation since then has been led by Rafi Harlev , a retired air-force brigadier . |
| 17 | The playground , which up to then had been filled with shrieks and the shouting of children at play , all at once became silent as the grave . |
| 18 | Traditionally , United Kingdom law has been generous and compilations of non-original matter have been protected providing that some judgment at least has been expended in its making ( see Macmillan & Co . |
| 19 | The closing date for obtaining tickets has now passed and all money and unsold tickets should by now have been sent to Cicely Harris or Hilda Lodge , with the names of your guests . |