Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
| 2 | Now there 's concern about people like the Hinton twins who 've since been made redundant . |
| 3 | He has since been granted temporary leave to stay in Britain . |
| 4 | He has since been proved right by the discovery first of a statuette , then of an unfinished statue , which combine head and body . |
| 5 | With regard to the Flower Fund , it had not perhaps been made clear that it had always been the intention that ‘ special occasions ’ should in-clude members who were ill and/or were in hospital , special birthdays , retirements , etc . |
| 6 | What follows is a consideration of a few vital food elements outlining their importance to the health of older people , and looking at the effect that dietary deficiency might have on what have hitherto been considered normal factors in the ageing process . |
| 7 | Essentially , what the communications course does is to bring to the fore issues which had hitherto been considered marginal ; it brings the perspectives of a variety of disciplines to bear on one subject . |
| 8 | Such a conception allows for a greater fluidity between the two modes than has hitherto been found acceptable . |
| 9 | Since its arrival in the eighteenth century , this is a literary mode which has recurrently been pronounced dead but which has been capable of renewal , and now Ackroyd has given a further turn to the wheel . |
| 10 | ‘ Always knew you were one of me mates , ’ said Archie , highly gratified that things had suddenly been made easy for him . |
| 11 | Although Laura would have liked a grand white wedding with all the trimmings , her mother had suddenly been taken ill , and clearly could n't manage all the organisation necessary for such an affair . |
| 12 | The form of protection requiring intermediate level , in-rack sprinklers quoted in paragraph ( 3 ) above have so far only been tested full scale , to stack heights of 15 metres . |
| 13 | Eagle brought an action against Savory Milln claiming that Savory Milln should account to Eagle for the £13.5m which had only been made available to Savory Milln to use by reason of fraud by Mr Ferriday , Eagle 's then chief executive . |
| 14 | Iraqi forces were debarred from using military aircraft , although it subsequently emerged that this had only been made explicit with regard to fixed-wing aircraft rather than helicopters . |
| 15 | In the first place , Retin-A has only been proved effective on those wrinkles which have been caused by sun damage rather than the inevitable march of time . |
| 16 | It had apparently been made aware of plans to alert green consumers to the slaughter of dolphins by Starkis — one of its subsidiaries . |
| 17 | At the back of the platform was a fence , and although it had apparently been painted white in the early 1900's , in later years the paint had peeled off and bushes had grown up on the cutting side to provide a new backdrop to the isolated platform beside the overgrown railway . |
| 18 | The Chibis suit ( resembling the lower half of a diving suit ) which the cosmonauts use to draw the blood into the lower pad of the body and legs has apparently been found unsuitable for women . |
| 19 | On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) . |
| 20 | Osteostracans ( cephalaspids ) have long been considered close relatives of lampreys despite a total difference in overall body shape . |
| 21 | Primitive man believed this ; this is one reason why the moon has long been considered feminine . |
| 22 | He had long been reported ill with kidney problems and was rumoured to have had throat cancer . |
| 23 | When her mother came into the room the picture was completed but the grass had all been coloured blue . |
| 24 | They have all been given legal status in the country and enjoy the same social welfare benefits as Nicaraguans . |
| 25 | On Feb. 14 , the crews of six SU-24 fighter-bomber jets who refused to take the oath of loyalty to Ukraine defected from Ukraine to Russia , where , it was later announced , they had all been given new postings . |
| 26 | Departments have all been given tight target figures which some feel will be hard to meet . |
| 27 | There is an enormous range of substances that people can use in order to change the way that they feel , but the safest and most reliable ones , the drugs that have stood the test of time , have all been made illegal . |
| 28 | H.G. Wells wrote a story about a traveller in South America coming across a community of people who had all been born blind . |
| 29 | For the sake of clarity the ascending-node longitudes have all been set equal to each other , though within each group they are in any case much the same . |
| 30 | Ian Rush , Don Hutchison , Mark Walters and Paul Stewart have all been passed fit . |