Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He may also have been behind certain elements of the design .
2 As for our own species , the oldest evidence , going back to possibly about 35,000 BC , reveals that the dead were not only equipped with weapons , tools , and ornaments but also with food , which must often have been in short supply among the living .
3 After electricity privatization , however , the government is allowing power companies to select which stations should be fitted with FGD ; the majority thus far have been in eastern England .
4 It may well have been with mixed feelings that Hamilton gave up Painshill and its burdens after some thirty-five years .
5 Yet the earliest known usage of ‘ South Saxons ’ does not appear until a royal charter of 689 names them and their king , Northelm , although the term may well have been in common use for some time before that .
6 There 's no doubt that the street-wisdom of the English forwards has been of huge value to them .
7 Aquitaine , still English , had not attracted much attention from either side since 1413 , the military emphasis since then having been on northern France .
8 One of the most farcical rivalries was that which existed for a time between two groups of prisoners who earlier had been in different Oflags .
9 We 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen , ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in the streamed situation .
10 The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation .
11 It hit sectors and people who largely escaped before , the skilled , the clerical workers , the managers and the professionals who 've been badly mauled this time , and where last time around er the service sector was expanding to mop up some of those who 'd lost their jobs in manufacturing , this time the service sector too has been in deep trouble .
12 Gozitan wine is cheap but just recently has been of variable quality .
13 The emphasis in econometric research until recently has been on developing estimators with desirable large sample properties for correctly specified models .
14 And as the years from retirement lengthen , it seems more and more tenuous to group men in terms of long-past work , let alone women who since marriage may never have been in paid work at all .
15 Any landowners who had been successful in this kind of enterprise would certainly have been of immediate interest to Paulus in his search for enemies of the State , as exploiters of pagan superstition .
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