Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This neutralised the efforts of the consortium since all funds committed so far had been for the purchase of the collection intact ; they could not be used for individual sale bids or any subsequent related negotiations . |
| 2 | Someone moved , close by , someone whose approach so far had been in silence , and she quickly took her hand away . |
| 3 | Most of the JMU visits so far have been to practices of this size . |
| 4 | However , the emphasis in the project so far has been on formulating these individual solutions rather than on co-ordinating them . |
| 5 | Most of the NII 's work so far has been on an earlier ‘ reference design ’ , which has now been superseded by a ‘ contract ’ design . |
| 6 | The accent so far has been on production and we need to spread its use in the commercial , R&T and other support functions . |
| 7 | The only difference of opinion so far has been over boxing . |
| 8 | Most of the gas discovered so far has been from the Z2 Carbonate but a few finds have also been made from the Z3 Carbonate in the western Netherlands and the adjacent offshore area , and gas is present in both the Z1 and Z2 Carbonates in Scram . |
| 9 | Krystom 's main impact so far has been in catching carp , the Independent readers of the fish world . |
| 10 | We estimate the cost of this campaign so far has been in excess of £20,000 . |
| 11 | Her career so far has been in publishing , and , following the birth of her son James in 1982 , this has enabled her to work from home . |
| 12 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 13 | After a long searching , entangled in other happenings , detained by pointless encounters far from the village , I wake , and that place whose spirit so often but always so briefly has been within my reach , is once more lost forever . |
| 14 | It was odd , Hope thought , as he lay deeply sunk in the great feather mattress , how perfect and desirable such a dowry would so recently have been to John — for Mary was the only child and it was apparent that the landlord would give her everything . |
| 15 | ‘ The Home Secretary always escorts the Queen to the door and could not possibly have been at the Cenotaph before her . ’ |
| 16 | She suggests that the offending Geordie dialect ‘ might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield ’ - could it not also have been from Norfolk , Suffolk or Dorset ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She praises the risk takers , wealth creators , people who are frequently from modest backgrounds and who may not even have been at a university . |
| 19 | Gozitan wine is cheap but just recently has been of variable quality . |
| 20 | For example Alec Hume 's memoirs were described them as this little book about fishing , a beautiful evocation of a countryman in Downing Street who would always rather have been with his fly on the river Tweed on the Scottish Borders . |
| 21 | His fantasy would more probably have been of Robyn as the first female , naked centre-forward for Birmingham City . |
| 22 | Nader Nadirpur came home late having been for a drive along the Bois de Boulogne to calm his nerves after a particularly bad day . |
| 23 | The ‘ unit of workload ’ can be a day in hospital , a diagnostic test or a particular procedure , but more recently has been in the form of a case . |
| 24 | The ‘ unit of workload ’ can be a day in hospital , a diagnostic test or a particular procedure , but more recently has been in the form of a case . |
| 25 | Even 18 months ago , the material would most probably have been in the form of near-illegible carbon copies of an original laboriously produced on a manual typewriter — devices which until recently had to be registered with the authorities . |
| 26 | The Premier could just as easily have been on the slalom — ducking and diving as MPs taunted him over the Exchange Rate Mechanism fiasco . |
| 27 | All the land out there had been under water once . |
| 28 | But he could n't possibly have been in love with her ! ’ |
| 29 | She 'd automatically assumed that it was from Ryan , only of course it was n't , and if she had been thinking rationally before she would have known it could n't possibly have been from him . |
| 30 | Parish council clerk at Gainford Margaret Brown said : ‘ They should n't strictly have been on the bridge but a lot of people do walk on it and climb over the small barricade at each end . |