Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last decade or so of his reign , approximately 100 mints functioned ( even if not all did so continuously ) : for the volume of the coinage they produced , only a " ball-park estimate " can be given — perhaps tens of millions of coins — but the quality of the coins has recently been very precisely determined : whereas before 864 many coins were debased by up to 50 per cent , after 864 a silver-content of well over 90 per cent was secured across the board . |
| 2 | As Brian Richards says , the range of techniques for improving movement in cities has never been so great . |
| 3 | The opposition to business monopolies has always been more muted than the opposition to labour monopolies , which businessmen and women have vociferously denounced as the root of all evil . |
| 4 | Although government agencies and industry use this test routinely , says Salsburg , its actual ability to detect carcinogens has never been properly confirmed . |
| 5 | If someone told you that a major ensemble of some twenty bronzes has recently been permanently installed in a public park hard by Wall St and that its subject is an allegory of greed , would you believe it ? |
| 6 | Thus the proportion of secondary school children going to grammar schools has always been positively related to social class . |
| 7 | Interest-rate subsidies have attracted more notice , but the comparative cost of credits in different currencies has not been much explored . |
| 8 | There have been occasions over the past 30 years when the attendance in this House for my speeches has not been quite as large as it is today . |
| 9 | And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . |
| 10 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 11 | ( Emma looking in a mirror , indoors , in the evening ; she has just been seduced by Rodolphe ) ‘ Her eyes had never been so large , so black , nor contained such depth . ’ |
| 12 | Both the Labour and Communist parties had already been highly critical of some Jewish employers before the fascists arrived in the area . |
| 13 | Moreover , his speeches had not been fundamentally concerned with ‘ Britain with the continent ’ , but with ‘ Britain and the continent ’ . |
| 14 | Many an anti-dog man joins the ranks of dog lovers because he is too weak to resist the demands of beloved children , but in Wexford 's household the demands had never been more than half-hearted , so he had passed through this snare and come out unscathed . |
| 15 | The earthquake , of course , was an expensive nuisance , but earthquakes had never been particularly rare events in Italy , so little significance was attached to it . |
| 16 | At least Piers had not been around when she had left . |
| 17 | However , most informed commentary suggested that its 860 acres had always been too small , and in 1988 it was virtually doubled in size . |
| 18 | It is this type of thinking that lies behind the US Justice Department 's Vertical Restraints Guidelines mentioned above , though White ( in this issue ) remarks that these 1985 Guidelines have not been particularly successful in clarifying the issues , and vertical restraints remain an unsatisfactory area of US antitrust policy . |
| 19 | Further to this I suggest that the optional extra subbuteo old trafford have the name written on the box as opposed to a picture as most of their ‘ so called ’ fans have never been there and so would n't recognise it . |
| 20 | Kiltmakers have never been so popular with men who are not members of pipe bands . |
| 21 | This method of judgement is relevant whenever tasks and their solutions have not been completely specified in advance . |
| 22 | Er but the plan itself the DOPACS units have n't been actually completed and therefore they could be running at a loss . |
| 23 | To test these assertions , we determined Os isotope compositions and Re and Os concentrations for eight of the Karoo picrite basalts whose elemental and isotopic parameters have previously been well characterized . |
| 24 | In some European countries with a two-party system , in which the parties have traditionally been closely associated with the major classes in capitalist society , changes in the class structure — such as were examined in Chapter 1 — have made possible the emergence or revival of ‘ centre ’ parties , and changes of this kind may in due course have an impact upon the electoral system itself . |
| 25 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 26 | Teacher trainers have also been greatly encouraged by the obvious interest and commitment of students to children with special needs ; optional and elective courses on this subject have always been over-subscribed . |
| 27 | Many mums who have apparently short labours have actually been gently dilating for a few days without realising it and without having any of the other traditional ‘ signs ’ of labour : a ‘ show ’ as the plug to the cervix is expelled , waters breaking or the first contractions . |
| 28 | Some specific types of rug and rug designs have also been traditionally referred to either as carpets or rugs , totally independent of size . |
| 29 | The bedrooms have all been individually redesigned with comfort in mind and offer the best in modern facilities with colour TV ( with satellite ) , telephone , radio and minibar combined with traditional elegance . |
| 30 | The hotel has a generally relaxed and sophisticated atmosphere and the bedrooms have all been comfortably furnished . |