Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This neutralised the efforts of the consortium since all funds committed so far had been for the purchase of the collection intact ; they could not be used for individual sale bids or any subsequent related negotiations .
2 Someone moved , close by , someone whose approach so far had been in silence , and she quickly took her hand away .
3 Most of the JMU visits so far have been to practices of this size .
4 However , the emphasis in the project so far has been on formulating these individual solutions rather than on co-ordinating them .
5 Most of the NII 's work so far has been on an earlier ‘ reference design ’ , which has now been superseded by a ‘ contract ’ design .
6 The accent so far has been on production and we need to spread its use in the commercial , R&T and other support functions .
7 The only difference of opinion so far has been over boxing .
8 Most of the gas discovered so far has been from the Z2 Carbonate but a few finds have also been made from the Z3 Carbonate in the western Netherlands and the adjacent offshore area , and gas is present in both the Z1 and Z2 Carbonates in Scram .
9 Krystom 's main impact so far has been in catching carp , the Independent readers of the fish world .
10 We estimate the cost of this campaign so far has been in excess of £20,000 .
11 Her career so far has been in publishing , and , following the birth of her son James in 1982 , this has enabled her to work from home .
12 Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field .
13 After a long searching , entangled in other happenings , detained by pointless encounters far from the village , I wake , and that place whose spirit so often but always so briefly has been within my reach , is once more lost forever .
14 It was odd , Hope thought , as he lay deeply sunk in the great feather mattress , how perfect and desirable such a dowry would so recently have been to John — for Mary was the only child and it was apparent that the landlord would give her everything .
15 After electricity privatization , however , the government is allowing power companies to select which stations should be fitted with FGD ; the majority thus far have been in eastern England .
16 Gozitan wine is cheap but just recently has been of variable quality .
17 For example Alec Hume 's memoirs were described them as this little book about fishing , a beautiful evocation of a countryman in Downing Street who would always rather have been with his fly on the river Tweed on the Scottish Borders .
18 His fantasy would more probably have been of Robyn as the first female , naked centre-forward for Birmingham City .
19 Nader Nadirpur came home late having been for a drive along the Bois de Boulogne to calm his nerves after a particularly bad day .
20 The ‘ unit of workload ’ can be a day in hospital , a diagnostic test or a particular procedure , but more recently has been in the form of a case .
21 The ‘ unit of workload ’ can be a day in hospital , a diagnostic test or a particular procedure , but more recently has been in the form of a case .
22 Even 18 months ago , the material would most probably have been in the form of near-illegible carbon copies of an original laboriously produced on a manual typewriter — devices which until recently had to be registered with the authorities .
23 The Premier could just as easily have been on the slalom — ducking and diving as MPs taunted him over the Exchange Rate Mechanism fiasco .
24 Quite apart form the new radical Arab regimes , the Soviet Union remained a bellicoes , threatening neighbour — as Russia almost always had been to Persia .
25 Now that it has been shown in Liverpool that there are powers to confiscate offending equipment — as there always have been in Scotland — may I ask my hon. Friend to draw those powers to the attention of local authorities — and , through the Home Office , the police — so that the public may be protected from this menace ?
26 In organizing the session , the initiative will almost certainly have been with the commissioning radio producer who will have approached the record company or manager .
27 DURHAM DALES Mr Tony Blair , who would almost certainly have been in Mr Kinnock 's cabinet , won Sedgefield with 1.71pc swing that gave him a increased majority of 14,859 .
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