Example sentences of "[adv] been [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The important point is that it should be used at a time when for some reason pressure is to be taken off members of the class — putting them in what is virtually a ‘ spectator ’ role can give them time to recover from what had perhaps been inadequate non-projected work . |
| 2 | I 've only been awake three minutes . ’ |
| 3 | Well only been married eight months , had a little baby . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd only been married five years when he died . |
| 5 | ‘ They 've only been married 15 days . |
| 6 | There was an outbreak of infection with this organism in Liverpool in 1976 , which was thankfully controlled by dint of exhaustive contact-tracing , and there have only been sporadic single cases since then , mostly imported from abroad . |
| 7 | She must have been quite a joker with that bantam on her head , pigeons fluttering noisily on her shoulders ; it had all been wonderful outdoor fun . |
| 8 | Blackgrass control has generally been good this season . |
| 9 | The trip had also offered temporary escape from her mother 's pointed reminiscences that when she was Polly 's age she had already been married two years and was preparing for the birth of her first child . |
| 10 | " We have n't exactly been sweeping swooning suitors off the doorstep , though , have we ? |
| 11 | Erm and he 's saying that you know to start with basically education has always been the preserve of the landlords , er the peasants have n't had anything to do with education , have always been poor illiterate peasants erm and now he 's saying that because the landlords have been overthrown erm suddenly peasants er have , you know , are forming erm schools and have been able to be taught various things . |
| 12 | The Royal Year and Christmas numbers of the ILN have always been successful extra issues each year , and they will henceforth both be sent to subscribers , giving them in total six issues of the ILN each year . |
| 13 | Managers of the service , supported by watchdog body the Mid Essex Community Health Council , have always been keen any merger should involve another locally-based trusts . |
| 14 | This has always been iffy this graphics editor ! |
| 15 | I had always been lucky that way . |
| 16 | There has always been considerable social stigma attached to the venereal diseases , probably more so in the country than the town . |
| 17 | Absolutely cruising when falling two out in last year 's contest , the chestnut has also been below-par this term , but freshened by a three-month break , can arrive fast and late to claim the crown . |
| 18 | There has also been considerable academic research . |
| 19 | Part of the reason for this lies with the decentralised nature of the party membership records but it has also been conventional political wisdom that Conservative party members play an insignificant role in the determination of the party 's policies . |
| 20 | Blues manager Trevor Anderson , determined to keep the League title at Windsor Park , has also been tracking top midfielders down south and in Scotland . |
| 21 | There has also been direct military involvement , in Northern Ireland since 1969 and in London in 1980 with the spectacular lifting of the siege at the Iranian embassy by the Special Air Service ( SAS ) . |
| 22 | I think prob problems of identification have n't really been right this time and we made a point a clear point this time with a note to people , if they were n't sure , to make comments on the books . |
| 23 | It 's now been empty six months . |
| 24 | Some of them are , of course , capital cities , comparable only to London , but most of the others ( we tend to forget ) have equally been great urban centres for many hundreds of years , while Britain 's biggest cities are mostly products of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 25 | The PBS , which came to power soon after its formation in 1985 , gained most of its support from the mainly Christian Kadazan ethnic group and from the Chinese ; however , the party also made some inroads into what had previously been USNO-controlled Moslem constituencies . |
| 26 | But the bias towards defence and security ( which have historically been natural right-wing issues ) might well persist and offset Labour 's advantage as the incumbent government , unless the 1989 Year of Revolutions in Eastern Europe ushers in a new era of world peace and tranquillity . |
| 27 | There have recently been encouraging medical advances in treating people with HIV who show no signs of being ill . |
| 28 | It can certainly be passed on by kissing , and there has recently been strong epidemiological evidence that CMV infection can be sexually transmitted . |
| 29 | With different teams competing for routes it 's difficult to know what 's new , but conditions have certainly been good this year . |
| 30 | A spokesman for Crosby Coastguard Station said : ‘ The Isle of Man lifeboat has certainly been busy this weekend . |