Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary last September , and Dulcie has been keenly involved with Medau for over 36 years , starting with the Post Natal Classes at Days Lane School , Sidcup , taken by Molly Braithwaite and Peggy Secord . |
| 2 | In Spain , governments have been keenly aware of RENFE 's position as the model whose pay and conditions were likely to have major repercussions for other firms throughout the economy . |
| 3 | Ultimately , of course , Æthelred 's inactivity did cost him his throne , but the point at which this could reasonably have been foreseen may have been little clearer to contemporaries than it is today . |
| 4 | He has not been properly fit for months . |
| 5 | In general we have been most successful with pupils excluded from other schools and returning from special provision . |
| 6 | But so far , this type of biological control has been most successful in China , where plentiful labour is available for intensive rearing of natural enemies . |
| 7 | Erin talks about the joy the mindless child brings her — well , so it may , but her love for it has been most destructive for others . |
| 8 | It must have been most pleasant by day . |
| 9 | Out of these , push factors 2 and 5 and pull factors 1 , 2 and 3 have been most important for depopulation in the western world , and pull factors 4 and 6. have been most important for people moving from urban to rural areas . |
| 10 | Out of these , push factors 2 and 5 and pull factors 1 , 2 and 3 have been most important for depopulation in the western world , and pull factors 4 and 6. have been most important for people moving from urban to rural areas . |
| 11 | In practice , it has been this area which has been most significant in relation to land development and planning policies . |
| 12 | The arrival and departure of winter visitors appears to overlap a small passage which has been most obvious in spring , when regular sea-watches have recorded small easterly movements , involving up to 25 birds annually , between early March and early May . |
| 13 | I have been most concerned by reports that some students may have been in temporary difficulty at the start of the current term because their grant cheques have not arrived from certain authorities . |
| 14 | Of all these possibilities the first was the one which would have been most damaging to Baldwin . |
| 15 | The cuts in services appear to have been most severe in Wales , the South West and parts of the Midlands . |
| 16 | Last , in terms of performance , the outturn for most intermediaries has been rather poor in terms of profitability , while borrowers of funds have gained from lower commissions and margins . |
| 17 | Paris House — the restaurant — in Woburn , Bedfordshire , has been rather slack at lunchtimes lately , so owner of both , chef-proprietor Peter Chandler , has been free to visit the races and witness his horse 's success . |
| 18 | All the same he had been rather cagey about Ianthe Broome , not saying who it was that had brought the oxtail . |
| 19 | The role of loyal officers and police in the events of 17–20 July demonstrates that while the rising may have been predominantly military in character it was far from being a rising of all the military . |
| 20 | Records show the local constabulary to have been remarkably tolerant towards prostitutes and apparently sensitive to the sexual practices of the poor . |
| 21 | Since Arabella had died , he had been remarkably docile with Georgina . |
| 22 | Despite the vast amount of money it has squandered the CIA has been remarkably unsuccessful in warning America about genuinely important hostile acts by Russia and her allies . |
| 23 | Our Jay has been remarkably un-rampant for years ! ’ |
| 24 | However , official statistics suggest that mobility has not recently been conspicuously higher in Japan than in other industrialized countries , especially since access to good education has too often depended on wealth and background . |
| 25 | But it is perhaps worth noticing here that firms have not been conspicuously forthcoming with offers to fund the schools , and the DES itself has had to put up considerable sums to support the first of them . |
| 26 | For some time now I have been greatly amused by Ian Wood 's column in the back page . |
| 27 | Britain finally became cut off from the Continent at the Straits of Dover around 6500 BC , although it may have been somewhat later between East Anglia and northern Europe via the Dogger Bank . |
| 28 | Being also part of the ‘ old guard ’ who had been somewhat resentful of Sydney Newman 's wind of change , Kine issued a flat ‘ No ’ when he was asked , by Mervyn Pinfield , to take on the enormous effects requirements of Doctor Who 's science fiction stories . |
| 29 | Whereas biological agents have hitherto been less efficient in total kill , speed of kill and activity spectrum , they are also attractive — resistance to them in natural pest populations is infrequent , and they can present fewer hazards to operators and the environment . |
| 30 | I had the idea Auntie Muriel might have been less tolerant about Michael if she met him . |