Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 the granting of planning permission for rural housing has arguably been concerned with the visual quality of the countryside rather than with alleviating problems of housing need . |
| 2 | Small wonder that first-time buyers are now returning : buying a home has rarely been cheaper . |
| 3 | John admitted recently that the economic climate has rarely been worse , and woodland owners have no financial rationale for management of this resource . |
| 4 | The tussle for the team award has rarely been tighter and with four to count Striders were clear winners with Sammy Doherty finishing fourth . |
| 5 | The respect with which Britain is regarded in the world has rarely been higher . |
| 6 | Standing up for pensioners has rarely been popular except among pensioners . |
| 7 | The difference between short and long rates has produced a yield curve that has rarely been steeper . |
| 8 | When ivy is seen growing throughout the crown of a dying tree it has rarely been responsible for the tree 's decline but has taken advantage of the crown which now lets through enough light for the ivy to grow away . |
| 9 | The Basilica Constaninina , now the Cathedral of Rome , S. Giovanni in Laterano , has since been many times altered and added |
| 10 | Having successfully struck out on his own in 1962 , he has since been involved with the South East London Society , and has been its treasurer for the past two years . |
| 11 | Lorraine did her doctorate work in the Department of Geography and has since been involved in the Department of Environmental Health and Housing on designing a hazard index for litter ( sponsored by the Tidy Britain Group ) . |
| 12 | The mother has since been married again and divorced and now has a co-habitee of three years ' standing . |
| 13 | One room has since been sound-proofed , but a recent letter from South Oxfordshire District Council warns that not everyone is happy its working . |
| 14 | The result was that they received both a big two-year increase and a pay review body which has since been responsible for a further substantial increase in their salaries . |
| 15 | Response so far has mostly been positive , says researcher Harriet Ward . |
| 16 | Although closely linked with the marathon racing side , he has only done a couple of races and his own paddling has mostly been recreational . |
| 17 | As an electronic medium using the airwaves , TV has necessarily been subject to governmental and inter-governmental controls on the frequencies that may be used and the coverage allowed to each transmitter . |
| 18 | The example pictured has obviously been successful in its spore dispersal — there 's no black jelly left , so all the spores have gone . |
| 19 | You have the score in your mind — you once said you do n't need a tape or a score to oversee in your mind the whole of Tristan — and this has obviously been true of other great conductors . |
| 20 | There has obviously been some attempt to alter and/or censor , but something of the truth can nevertheless be teased out of the fragments that remain . |
| 21 | There has obviously been some continuity of habitation on the site but , quite honestly , there is no way I could classify it other than , perhaps , Romo-Stuart-Georgian ! |
| 22 | Thus , it has hitherto been appropriate for the professional partnership where limited liability is forbidden . |
| 23 | There seem to be several reasons for its emergence : a backlog of untrained practitioners ; a desire to certificate practice , for a variety of reasons , including status ; labour shortages which require quick solutions ; and a growth of theory or technology in the field itself , requiring more systematic training than has hitherto been necessary . |
| 24 | It may of course lead to a greater use of the concept of collateral warranties than has hitherto been necessary . |
| 25 | Due to the preoccupation of investigators with the issue of hemispheric asymmetry this most important problem has hitherto been immune from serious experimental attack . |
| 26 | Where they spend winter has hitherto been uncertain ; there is now strong evidence that most of the stock moves south in autumn and winter immediately under pack ice ( Marschall 1988 ) , where they browse on algae . |
| 27 | But again , cultural context makes the crucial difference : the appropriation of the romantic , the utopian , and the polymorphous for what has hitherto been marginal , and both demonized and repressed by the centre , and internalized as such at the margins , has quite different effects and implications trom , say , a more general ( post/modern ? ) theory that ‘ anything goes anywhere ’ . |
| 28 | The Cabinet , appointed by the President , has hitherto been subordinate to the UNIP central committee . |
| 29 | I am sure you will be feeling that it has all been worthwhile . |
| 30 | There is no doubt in her mind that it has all been worthwhile . |