Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Thus there has grown up an interest in feminist ‘ herstory ’ ; etymologically impossible , the word emphasizes that his-story has been just that — the history of men .
2 And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road .
3 Sexual experiment , now or in earlier life , is and has been markedly less than with younger people .
4 She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands .
5 It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’
6 ‘ My wife has been dead these two years .
7 ‘ Unfortunately I can not join you , because I am expecting a very old friend of my family , who has been here all these years , ’ she said .
8 ‘ Hyde has been here all this time why did n't he destroy this will ? ’
9 Hello folks , my boss has been away this morning so I 've been busy scanning a few leeds picies and saving them as gif files .
10 And of course in recent years there has been yet another pressure to move away from Brian Way 's methods .
11 There has been yet another substantial increase in resources for the NHS , and that will enable a continuing reduction in waiting lists and better service for all those who use the NHS .
12 To date , however , there has been rather little evidence on the means of transmission of difficulties .
13 In much of Western Europe a predominant characteristic has been trade union pluralism ( and sometimes reluctance to engage in continuous relationships with employers ) promoted by ideological , philosophical and religious differences , although in recent years there has been rather less emphasis upon the importance of religious affinity .
14 As he points out there has been surprisingly little research in this area and what there is derives mostly from the sociology of education under the heading of teacher socialisation .
15 Given the undoubted importance of deixis to philosophical , Psychological and linguistic approaches to the analysis of language , there has been surprisingly little work of a descriptive nature in the area , with a Consequent lack of adequate theories and frameworks of analysis .
16 There has been precious little attention to giving basic education to the general public on the art of wise borrowing .
17 Opportunities for dual qualification , in both education and librarianship , barely existed until the pioneer establishment of a Teacher-Librarianship Diploma at University College London in the late 1960s , and although a variety of different courses are now emerging there has been precious little encouragement or inducement for ambitious people to take advantage of them .
18 Yet there has been remarkably little research activity in this area .
19 From there it has been downhill all the way .
20 Daily turnover in options has been regularly less than the 30,000 contracts per day which it is estimated the LTOM needs to cover its costs .
21 Lucy Wedderburn , the young medical registrar , has been up all night inserting drains and carefully drawing out bloodstained fluid , and she 's still on duty , witty and vivacious through the exhaustion .
22 But funding has been significantly less than other programmes , dissemination of materials less effective and leadership less dynamic .
23 There has been very little work done on the psychology of the horse .
24 There is , however , always a danger that her critics are really writing about themselves , defending their own positions , so there has been very little constructive criticism .
25 However , there has been very little success with captive breeding and few of the cubs which are born survive past the first year .
26 There has been very little research into BSL learning , and certainly no systematic analysis of the skills needed .
27 The kind of supervision suggested by the college could be achieved by guardianship ; yet guardianship under the Act has been very little used .
28 The problem with this is not merely that there has been very little serious thinking within multiculturalism about how ‘ cultural understanding ’ actually occurs , about its forms , mechanisms and limits .
29 As will be made clear in the following brief history of Marxist thought in Latin America , there has been very little interplay between the evolutions of Marxism-Leninist prescriptions for revolutionary development in Latin America , as shaped by Soviet ideologues , and the way that Latin Americans themselves have applied Marxism to their situation .
30 As we have seen , the response in England has been substantial ; in Wales , on the other hand , there has been very little reaction to the reports and teacher training for further education in the Principality is generally less well developed than in England .
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