Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , most of what they say has been very constructive and it is taking on board these improvements where possible that give us a better service to our customers . |
| 2 | While Sir John tended to favour a consensus style of management , Sir Denys has been more authoritarian , taking more direct responsibility for decisions . |
| 3 | We 've had a debate on Local Management of Schools opposed by the Labour Party where we have seen that the right to choose their own children 's quality of education and where school governing bodies can direct their cash where they want has been extremely popular . |
| 4 | Conference , if you think back to all those times that you have sat at home watching the news after a day 's work like I have , and listen carefully to what is being said , you may well have been horrified and saddened to hear the many stories appertaining to people who have had accidents or died due to the fact that the machine they have been driving has been too powerful . |
| 5 | So far , they appear to have been largely supportive . |
| 6 | Understandably , welfare measures which gave benefits dissociated from any inspection or apparent evaluation of working-class character and habits appear to have been most popular . |
| 7 | The cuts in services appear to have been most severe in Wales , the South West and parts of the Midlands . |
| 8 | Historically , people appear to have been more philosophical about inability to conceive and bear a child , and most childless people did not question themselves about it , unless they felt it was a kind of punishment . |
| 9 | On the contrary , unions appear to have been more effective and even the loss of trade union membership may be a consequence of the inability of the unemployed trade unionists to pay their unions fees rather than due to a loss of sympathy with the unions . |
| 10 | Changes in wind appear to have been more important ecologically than changes in temperature or precipitation . |
| 11 | Searching back through the long history of feline deterrents , there appear to have been only three smelly substances that have achieved a measure of success . |
| 12 | The environmental impact of the Braer oil tanker disaster in January appear to have been relatively mild , according to an interim report from the Scottish Office . |
| 13 | So far , however , these provisions appear to have been relatively minor , with the exception of some composite insurance companies offering mortgage indemnity guarantees . |
| 14 | Death was the result of sepsis , bowel infarction , and renal failure none of which appear to have been readily preventable in retrospect . |
| 15 | The differences between the painters appear to have been purely personal , but Delaunay had also moved away from the other Cubists in his works of 1912 , and , using his Cubist researches as a point of departure , was developing a much more purely abstract kind of painting with colour as its principal element . |
| 16 | Both the Ras and his wife appear to have been very anxious and nervous about the child , and I feel that it would be impossible for me to refuse without risking his friendship which will be of the utmost importance to us in the future . |
| 17 | After Cicero 's De Oratore , there appear to have been very few analyses of the language of humour , comedy and joking , until the twentieth century : at least , judging from Milner 's ( 1972 ) account , cited in Delia Chiaro 's bibliography . |
| 18 | More generally , political influences appear to have been especially important by way of a facilitating role of socialist ideology in broadening the structural form of unions away from concern with narrow and particularistic special interests . |
| 19 | Anselm was made to appear to have been too rigid in his interpretation of the decree of 1099 . |
| 20 | It does not appear in Heath 's brief memorandum of de Lattre 's meeting with Truman but de Lattre subsequently claimed to have been very reassured by the President 's statement : ‘ We would not let Indo-China fall into enemy hands . ’ |
| 21 | It appears that costs are awarded on the indemnity basis only in exceptional cases , for example ‘ major test cases ’ and ‘ cases in which the paying party 's conduct is considered to have been wholly unmeritorious , oppressive or in contempt of court ’ and the court must expressly direct that costs be awarded on such a basis . |
| 22 | Those popes who are generally considered to have been most influential and powerful had decidedly legal aims : their political theory was developed within the law . |
| 23 | Deng was reported to have been particularly incensed by an attack on the country 's five special economic zones ( SEZs ) , widely regarded as showcases for the reformist line . |
| 24 | Civilians and members of security and paramilitary forces are also reported to have been physically ill-treated after being captured or detained . |
| 25 | Widows are given an allowance because they are deemed to have been financially dependent . |
| 26 | A key television debate was held on Sept. 3 between Mitterrand ( who was generally deemed to have been more successful ) and Séguin . |
| 27 | ‘ I had worked on Doctor Who since the middle of 1963 , the work involved had been very hard and I felt exhausted . |
| 28 | Indeed , well before it assembled , the governments involved had been quite aware that quarrels over precedence would be the first obstacle to peace-making and by no means the least serious . |
| 29 | The only crew member they had located had been totally insane — with fear . |
| 30 | I endorse what the hon. Gentleman says about the responsibility that politicians of all constitutional parties have , and a willingness so to talk has been very much present in recent years . |