Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theology had long been familiar with this kind of argument , and had on occasion made very extensive use of it . |
| 2 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 3 | Here again Suger was reasserting royal supremacy in a world which had long been deaf to such claims . |
| 4 | Arachnologists have long been puzzled by these patches . |
| 5 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 6 | Different hands have obviously been involved in this great polyptych . |
| 7 | The function of the Petit Meslier has thus been similar to that of the Petit Verdot in Bordeaux . |
| 8 | The Consorzio Venezia Nuova has already been active for some time in redesigning the network of channels in the lagoon , consolidating the barene ( patches of mud flat just above the surface of the water ) and other similar measures . |
| 9 | I was no more alert to my environment than a sick animal and I must have somehow been aware of that , because it was then that I remembered the starveling cat . |
| 10 | For him , there is not enough room in life for anything but one-to-one relationships and then as now , Niki has always been better in such relationships than in the goings-on of a board or a team . |
| 11 | Despite the inherent difficulties in comparative work it has been argued that an international perspective has always been implicit to some extent in the study of industrial relations . |
| 12 | It has not always been easy for those working class voters who see the Greens as an undisciplined bunch , inimical to the interests of industrial society , to keep up with the SPD 's enthusiastic appetite for environmental matters . |
| 13 | I 've always been grateful for that , that they did you know create th th this love of poetry . |
| 14 | It has always been one of those comedies built on character and situation . |
| 15 | However , they were originally scheduled for different nights , but it has always been possible for this scenario to arrise , so why did n't they just schedule the matches to be played at the same time no matter what ? |
| 16 | Looking back , it 's clear that Cave has always been obsessed with this latent other within each individual , that can be catalysed by an extreme predicament . |
| 17 | I remember how , when I was a naughty boy as I usually was , there being no corporal punishment , I was led about on a bit of string by my Headmaster , and one day when I was being reprimanded I laughed in the Headmaster 's face — I have always been defiant to all who tried to control me . |
| 18 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 19 | You 've always been good at that . ’ |
| 20 | New Zealand have always been good in this department and that is why we are going there ’ , explained coach Lin . |
| 21 | Having always been sceptical of such high figures for repairs being bandied about , we commissioned our own structural survey which , more reassuringly , estimated the cost of urgent repairs to be £250,000 . |
| 22 | He and Franca had always been fond of each other . |
| 23 | ‘ You mean to tell me , Peter , that you 've always been aware of this spate of ‘ reprisals ’ on officials of the fallen Government ? ’ |
| 24 | Whereas , none of the bands I 've been in have ever been showbizzy in that sense , and if we 're in a bad mood then we play really badly . |
| 25 | If the hon. Lady knew what was available to those of her constituents who are unemployed , she would know that we offer a wider range of help to unemployed people than has ever been available in this country before . |
| 26 | you know if you 've ever been stuck in this you know you 've got an appointment somewhere you know the the frustration 's incredible . |
| 27 | We have hardly been alone in this . |
| 28 | The R.S.P.C.A. and the National Union of Mineworkers have both been involved with this form of contempt in recent years . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've both been alone for such a long time I do n't honestly know whether our marriage would survive if we were together every day . ’ |
| 30 | The notion that ‘ primitive ’ societies classify and organise their intellectual world simply in terms of their crude ‘ needs ’ , which Goody derives from Malinowski and uses to further characterise ‘ oral ’ societies , has also been subject to some radical revision in recent years . |