Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [vb pp] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That might well have been true in the early 1960s but not in the 1990s , so let us not revive a distinction which has thankfully been eliminated All kinds of research in education have gone far beyond this narrow form . |
| 2 | Earth tremors caused structural damage in Angra village in 1988 but the nuclear plant 's operators , state-owned Furnas Centrais Electricas , denied that the reactor had been damaged , although it has since been closed several times for " repairs " . |
| 3 | The fishermen were so concerned for its welfare that they closed the lake for the remainder of the season , and the fish has since been spotted several times , fully recovered . |
| 4 | What has perhaps been accorded less attention has been the ways in which policy and implementation have involved a feedback from implementation as policies have been found inadequate to meet the demands of ‘ good professional practice ’ . |
| 5 | But the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent development of Soviet society produced an emphasis upon another strand in Marxist thought about the transition to socialism ( one which had not hitherto been given much prominence ) involving the idea of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ; and in the specific conditions prevailing in Russia , which differed entirely from those in Western Europe , this soon evolved in practice into the dictatorship of the Bolshevik party , then the dictatorship of the party 's central committee , and finally the dictatorship of a single individual . |
| 6 | His wish had been granted , but he had only been given more time to experience cruel and unabated pain . |
| 7 | The list had obviously been printed some time before . |
| 8 | It 's already been said this morning they are entitled to a voice and therefore we need to retain er , a separate trade union membership . |
| 9 | If I 'm g go over things that Dennis covered or that have already been covered this morning , I , I will be brief a and I just wanted to say these are some of my personal views on the quality initiatives . |
| 10 | The point has already been made that industry here can include nationally or internationally orientated services like DHSS Longbenton . |
| 11 | From the tenor of speeches that have already been made this morning , it is obvious that the work TECs do must be acknowledged . |
| 12 | Largent 's records for most catches and most receiving yards have already been eclipsed this year by Washington 's Art Monk and Buffalo 's James Lofton . |
| 13 | Anyone looking at Community legal texts can not help being struck by the large quantity of them and , although the European Communities are still a relatively youthful organization , a lot of those texts have already been amended many times over . |
| 14 | 200 redundancies have already been announced this year . |
| 15 | In fact , the only one not now in profit is fertilizers , and strong action has already been taken that Lindsell is confident will lead to renewed health in this remaining problem area over the next two or three years . |
| 16 | User has already been passed this SPR |
| 17 | The deportations have already been postponed several times under international pressure and Mr Hurd is the third Foreign Secretary to review a policy first outlined 15 months ago . |
| 18 | However , the conference , whose start had already been postponed several times [ see p. 38323 ] , only managed to complete its first session . |
| 19 | The referendum , first scheduled for November 1991 , had already been postponed several times [ see pp. 38227 ; 38424 ; 38565 ; 38663 ] . |
| 20 | The possibility of claiming that you have been constructively dismissed has already been mentioned several times . |
| 21 | The idea of the still image is one which has already been mentioned several times both in this and in the preceding chapter . |
| 22 | Alistair Clarke of Christie 's furniture department expressed satisfaction that the market had held up in the light of the considerable quantity of important French furniture which has already been offered this season . |
| 23 | No it 's funny unle I Mum says is it something that 's just been published this year you know , like if someone just published |
| 24 | Long-awaited consultation from the Scottish Office on the inspection of social work services has just been published this week . |
| 25 | It is only when everything else has genuinely been tried that divorce can ever be contemplated . |
| 26 | It has always been noticed that information technology skills , of which we shall need more and more in the coming years , have tended to lag behind the demand for those skills . |
| 27 | ‘ It has always been done this way ’ is poor reason unless one knows why . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's always been done this way ’ is one of the biggest hurdles to overcome when persuading others . |
| 29 | He may also act on the principle that ‘ things have always been done this way ’ and justify his actions accordingly . |
| 30 | The authority for doing things this way lies in the fact that they have always been done this way and so questioning is not encouraged . |