Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , music chosen from a composer 's total output and specially arranged as a score for a three-act ballet with a story has rarely been completely successful . |
| 2 | TIM PAGE , photographed above in Vietnam , started work as a photographer in the country in 1963 at the age of twenty , and worked there intermittently until 1969. he has since been back six times — in the early Eighties for The Observer , and more recently to research his book Ten Years After . |
| 3 | The thing is moulded under your eyes , and a recent book which has been very popular in the university Gödel Esher Bach which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got quite a long article on how the author actually organised all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it has obviously been very stimulating for him . |
| 4 | Mr Davies 's research has obviously been very thorough , for some of his photographs were unknown even to old BCR fans . |
| 5 | Thus the subject matter of this chapter , combining as it does both practices in the teaching of the arts and LEA 's INSET policies , has hitherto been virtually unresearched . |
| 6 | ‘ It has all been carefully stage-managed , ’ said one disappointed Norwegian . |
| 7 | Her mother was reported in the Star as saying : ‘ It has all been too much for her . |
| 8 | The English language has long been quite clear and readily understood : ‘ 10 months after ’ means exactly that , ie 10 calendar months . |
| 9 | My view has long been that 40 ought to be the cut-off age for parenting or you 'd be unfairly old for your child . |
| 10 | For B&O , form has long been as important as function , allowing it to avoid the open-sandwich school of Danish design . |
| 11 | At present no controlled group study has been reported with child victims and their families and , even when attempts have been made to evaluate interventions , findings suggest that the treatment of abusive parents has only been marginally effective . |
| 12 | But it has only been half successful because everyone wants to be able to go everywhere . |
| 13 | The Government 's own Department of Development Aid has apparently been so devious that the judge investigating the billions of Rand evidently missing or misappropriated , which should have gone towards assisting the poorer ( black ) communities , has thrown in the towel when faced by the department 's shambolic accounting . |
| 14 | As Paul writes to this leading city in Asia Minor ( present-day Turkey ) around the year AD 60 he makes many statements in opposition to the false teachers who–e influence has apparently been so prevalent . |
| 15 | Whereas the long-term significance of human activity upon plants and animals and soil characteristics and distributions has provided one research focus , in climatology the emphasis has perhaps been more evident on a spatial scale with the impact of human activity first appreciated at the local scale but then subsequently extended to the meso and thence to the world scale . |
| 16 | The application of traffic calming in Britain has thus been almost imperceptible , implemented here and there on new housing estates , and usually in a very diluted and faint-hearted manner . |
| 17 | That has been monumental help , but it has not been just practical help . |
| 18 | Argentina has not been just any other market for British arms ; it has been one of Britain 's best customers in a long relationship . |
| 19 | Identifying the protected class in sex and race discrimination law has not been generally problematic . |
| 20 | ( Unfortunately , the fact that many projects have produced attractive material which is extremely effective in the hands of some teachers but that has not been widely successful may reasonably be interpreted either as an aim- or a style-mismatch , or as a dissemination problem . ) |
| 21 | This pragmatism has not been completely shapeless , however . |
| 22 | However , this has not been immediately obvious to the unconverted . |
| 23 | If that departure has not been wholly amicable and an adjustment arises which increases an individual 's tax liability , there is the prospect of prolonged discussions with former partners and possibly problems of collectability as far as the Revenue is concerned . |
| 24 | He has not been properly fit for months . |
| 25 | We believe that the negotiating position has not been particularly clever . |
| 26 | To date the 1992/3 winter has not been particularly serious and in the main the daily rake of 158s and 153s has run well . |
| 27 | However , this has not been particularly successful . |
| 28 | At first glance it appears that the government has not been particularly successful in bringing about reductions in local government expenditure . |
| 29 | and although it is being set up to promote a rich peasant economy in order to pave the way for Chinese industrialization , that has not been particularly successful either in terms of the level of output and therefore the levels or in terms of inequalities in that one of the , one of the worrying things that comes through , that comes through , despite the tax system there are still very substantial inequalities and i is the promotion of mutual aid a means , a perceived means of reducing or containing those inequalities ? |
| 30 | It shows that in fact Germany 's economic performance , especially in recent years , has not been particularly impressive . |