Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By s. 3 of the 1986 Act the court may make a disqualification order where it appears that the person has been persistently in default in delivering returns , accounts or other documents to the Registrar of Companies . |
| 2 | The inclusion of the word " reasonably " gives the court a discretion which will be exercised in the tenant 's favour where for example he has made one or two late payments of rent , but not where he has been persistently in arrear throughout the term ( Bassett v Whiteley ( 1982 ) 54 P & CR 87 ) . |
| 3 | They pick on an accountant because an accountant needs a good name and has been partly in control of the funds anyway . |
| 4 | In fact the staff response has been just below average with legal and financial worries being main areas of concern . |
| 5 | Over the past five months , rainfall has been well below average : the month of January was the driest London has experienced for 154 years . |
| 6 | Since our concern here has been exclusively with assessment of Grant Related Expenditure and not with the subsequent use ( and possible misuse ) of these estimates in the actual allocations of money to Local Authorities , we shall concentrate on instability of the GRE . |
| 7 | The teacher takes on a role as a member of the local council who has been away on business . |
| 8 | With a new emphasis on the importance of the Word , the trend has been away from hymns , anthems and settings . |
| 9 | All the services listed offer free guidance to anyone over the age of 19 who has been away from education for a significant period . |
| 10 | In music , as with other subjects , the trend has been away from regimentation towards an individual approach and small group work . |
| 11 | Since 1990 he has been either under house arrest or in jail . |
| 12 | The evidence discussed in this final section of the chapter has been uniformly in favour of the associative account of acquired equivalence and distinctiveness . |
| 13 | The engagement with Marxism has been largely through contact with structuralist traditions and in particular with the work of Althusser as mediated through Castells ( 1977 ) . |
| 14 | I do not believe it is disputed that this factor has been powerfully in operation recently . |
| 15 | THE Lord Chancellor , Lord Mackay of Clashfern , has been strangely at odds with the law during this year . |
| 16 | In the past the torus has been more in favour as its plasma containment is more efficient . |
| 17 | Roman Catholicism has been more in line with the other great world religions in insisting that mysticism is only for a few chosen souls and that , unless one has this special propensity , mysticism can be a serious health threat . |
| 18 | ‘ No one has been there for years , I would swear it . ’ |
| 19 | I got a room in the inn , and despite the windiness of the house and the army of earwigs that people it , I was very snug : a friend who has been there in winter gives amusing particulars regarding the draughts that are vocal as well as felt in this palace of the winds ; he found it necessary to nail up his bed-room windows with many plies of blanket , and thus to allow day and night to glide unnoted past , for all was dark — yet were not the breathings of the winds hushed ! |
| 20 | Peaceful , mellow and noble , in the shade of a great sycamore , it is the sort of house that feels as though it has been there from time immemorial . |
| 21 | Harrer 's original story was published in 1959 , and has been continually in print ever since — something of a rarity for a climbing book . |
| 22 | One of its themes will have to be the confusion in our morality that the epidemic has exposed , and this has been much in evidence in the past few days in response to the ludicrous concert in commemoration of Freddie Mercury , and then the renewal of the controversial theory that Aids may not be linked to HIV at all , but instead , to cite one example , to promiscuous sexual activity that reputedly attacks the immune system . |
| 23 | Over the years a niggling rivalry has been much in evidence between the two clubs , although Whaddon have progressed to a much higher standard of football . |
| 24 | Aircrew cameraderie has been much in evidence , the atomosphere relaxed . |
| 25 | Periodically the abuses surface , there is an outcry — as there has been recently in BANGLADESH — and the system is tinkered with . |
| 26 | Unlike Roth , who 's been working , Tarantino has been everywhere with Reservoir Dogs . |
| 27 | This important thought has been constantly at odds with the equally influential notion that we are all blank paper at birth , ready to be entirely formed by our society . |
| 28 | Flora , the child of her union with Cecil , has been constantly in need of expert medical care . |
| 29 | This has been so for decades and there is little on the horizon that threatens to curtail it . |
| 30 | This has been so for centuries , and afflicts all nations . |