Example sentences of "[adv] been [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Due to the preoccupation of investigators with the issue of hemispheric asymmetry this most important problem has hitherto been immune from serious experimental attack . |
| 2 | Half-built houses had hitherto been exempt from local taxes and the country was full of new ‘ housing developments ’ , which amounted to little more than forests of concrete stumps and rusty struts and braces . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Bought deals have only been possible with Big Bang and the advent of large well capitalised securities firms , but the risks being taken on are extremely large . |
| 5 | The McofS has only been involved with two developments so far ( The Kelvin Hall in Glasgow and the Leisure Centre in Dundee — currently being built ) . |
| 6 | Hedley Byrne was considering a substantial advertising programme for a customer which previously had only been involved in limited programmes . |
| 7 | DEC is likely to add an open application programming interface to ACMS , which has previously only been available on VMS-based server platforms . |
| 8 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 9 | ‘ It 's none of your damned business ! ’ she snapped half-heartedly , yet his words struck a raw nerve and she almost winced in pain , because Ryan had only been ardent at first ; after that , it had been she who had made the advances . |
| 10 | Many insects can detect ultraviolet light , while the vision of the common goldfish ranges from ultraviolet to far-red : achievements that we have only been able to equal in recent years with the development of sophisticated electronic equipment . |
| 11 | I 've only been operational for four months and yet already people are beginning to seek me out . |
| 12 | Lead-free petrol has of course only been popular in recent years . |
| 13 | Theology had long been familiar with this kind of argument , and had on occasion made very extensive use of it . |
| 14 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 15 | Here again Suger was reasserting royal supremacy in a world which had long been deaf to such claims . |
| 16 | Arachnologists have long been puzzled by these patches . |
| 17 | Both environmentalists and public health groups have long been worried about toxic discharges from paper mills using chlorine bleach . |
| 18 | I have long been interested in military technology so I was determined to attend the presentation . |
| 19 | Fortunately for him Kennedy had long been interested in British politics , and included Churchill among his heroes . |
| 20 | A small , mountainous country with a population of under three million people , it has long been free from colonial domination . |
| 21 | The inspiration for the experiment was the German Jugendherbergen accommodation which had long been popular with English trampers and cyclists . |
| 22 | But then , those few of Elise 's men friends whom Merrill had met had all been charismatic in one way or another . |
| 23 | Edinburgh , Glasgow , and London ( particularly Imperial College ) universities have all been involved in major research projects in this area , although the major structural problems had been elucidated in 1906 by scientists from the then Geological Survey of Scotland ( Peach and others . |
| 24 | My clothes , hair , ears , trainers had all been full of broken bits of twig … |
| 25 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 26 | Different hands have obviously been involved in this great polyptych . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It could be improved by including all the results of excavations since 1961 , but this has not been possible for various reasons , the most important of which is that it is no longer the intention to study the results of 367 , but to turn to another event recorded by Ammianus which can be illuminated by this old study and by more recent work . |
| 29 | As we have seen , repeal feminists had not been opposed to moral disciplining but they had promoted it through the more ‘ feminine ’ domain of voluntary agencies , attacking the statist solutions of male professionals . |
| 30 | While awaiting the views of the European Court , will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the fact that Presbyterians in Scotland enjoy shopping on Sundays and that has not been detrimental to those who wish to attend church ? |