Example sentences of "[adv] been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investors on Wall Street have rarely been in such an uncertain state — which means big money is about to be lost and won |
| 2 | Dr Kallman has since been on another field trip to this area and is able to confirm the widespread range of this species throughout most of the small tributaries of the Rio Coatzacoalcos , and eastwards from Sarabia . |
| 3 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 4 | Brittany had long since been in some way subject to Normandy . |
| 5 | In official talks begun on June 10 , however , the then Romanian Environment Minister Simion Hincu told his Bulgarian counterpart , Aleksandur Aleksandrov , that the offending factory had been closed in 1988 , and that atmospheric emissions had since been within permissible limits . |
| 6 | And he had n't been off long , perhaps been off three or four weeks , I I would say . |
| 7 | And , and how do people find out about you if they 've perhaps been through psychiatric illness ? |
| 8 | I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years . |
| 9 | One of them had only been at Long Lartin for three weeks … |
| 10 | ‘ We 've only been to two movies in two-and-a-half years , ’ he says . |
| 11 | They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down . |
| 12 | I 've only been in the industry , I 've only been with this company for two and half years , and when I joined and had a look at what the industry was about , there were thirty express overnight carriers . |
| 13 | There has only been on eprevious report of the presence of epoxide hydrolase in normal colonic tissue . |
| 14 | The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are . |
| 15 | And er I remember one one chap he were a bit scared , very much so , and oh dear dear dear , he 'd only been within other bloke , a chap A chap from , what was his name now ? |
| 16 | He 'd only been in eighteen months , ’ said the Bishop , in the manner of a man who is used to a longer temporal perspective . |
| 17 | What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years . |
| 18 | I also think he had been slightly influenced by Father D'Arcy , with whom lie had apparently been in recent touch . |
| 19 | The prisoner 's dilemma — a game where two players have to decide whether to co-operate with each other or cheat — has long been of great interest to economists . |
| 20 | Thus the death in 1751 of the Prince of Wales , who had long been on bad terms with his father , led to a virtual collapse for the time being of all political opposition . |
| 21 | Litigants were likely to be neighbours who had long been on hostile terms . |
| 22 | I got on the vehicle but the driver had not long been in fourth gear when I came to my senses . |
| 23 | Are you implying that it 's not very long been in this country ? |
| 24 | The principles of variation ornamentation , thematic reshaping , and so on — had long been in common use . |
| 25 | They share the fact that they have all been of limited duration but , within that framework , one has been concerned with local skills training , four have involved modules contained within honours degree courses ( Typography and Graphic Communication , Library Science , Publishing and Computer Science respectively ) and one has been at postgraduate level . |
| 26 | The implication was that the slaughter had all been in vain . |
| 27 | And she had n't got whatever it was he wanted , so it had all been in vain . |
| 28 | The OEO Agent had obviously been in continuous pain by the end of their long , slow hike , and Bernice was able to boost the feed of chemicals provided by Defries 's combat suit . |
| 29 | Lane had been assisted by a woman police officer , Detective -Sergeant Phyllis Henley , a thickset girl , whom he had called in because she was an old friend or enemy of Roxie whose own life had not been without criminal excitements . |
| 30 | This has not been without considerable sacrifice and testing of faith . |