Example sentences of "been [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foucault has even been accused of returning , in this work , to the concept of a totality in the episteme ; it has certainly been somewhat hastily assumed that the latter can be appropriated more or less as a new way of describing a historical ‘ period ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ British insects have been so well recorded that the discovery of new species is the icing on the cake of the study , ’ said Dr Holmes . |
| 3 | Nithard puts them in 839 : Charles 's mother , and the magnates who had worked on the will of his father to promote Charles 's cause , fearing that if Louis were to die before matters were settled , they would risk incurring the hatred of Charles 's brothers to their own ruin , advised that the father should choose one of those sons to be his helper so that , even if the others refused to remain at peace after their father 's death , these two at least would have been so firmly united that they would be able to withstand the hostility of their rivals . |
| 4 | The parallel with England has been so firmly established that when US tourists shunned Europe last year , for fear of being struck by Gulf war shrapnel , they also stopped coming to Bermuda . |
| 5 | Many teachers , whose schools had been early in the reporting cycle , also said that they had considerable difficulty in remembering their review and its outcome or had been so little involved that they felt unable to say much about it . |
| 6 | The Mental Health Act Commission pointed out in a discussion paper in 1986 that guardianship ‘ has been so little used that its potential is untried ’ . |
| 7 | It is important to differentiate between timbers which have been so badly eaten that their strength has been reduced , necessitating replacement , and those which , though damaged , still contain enough sound wood to continue their original jobs . |
| 8 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 9 | That is happening simply because the prison service has been so badly mismanaged that the staff are disaffected . |
| 10 | Car and bodies had been so badly charred that it was some time before they could be identified . |
| 11 | But these have been so badly eroded that the controlling guards of critical thought are down . |
| 12 | The point is to resurrect the lives of women obscured by their more famous male spouses or contemporaries ; but too often these have been so effectively overshadowed that the biographies are pious constructions rather than recon structions . |
| 13 | Over the last decade the political dynamic of our society has changed so much , the social fabric has been so profoundly ravished that a different form of theatre is called for |
| 14 | I understand John McGrath 's sentiments but over the last decade or so the political dynamic of our society has changed so much , the social fabric has been so profoundly ravished that a different form of theatre is called for . ’ |
| 15 | His change of tactics had been so cunningly disguised that she had n't realised what was happening . |
| 16 | The seam had been so thoroughly picked that it had a sharp edge . |
| 17 | There are good habits and bad habits but the main point about them is that they are all behaviour patterns which have been so thoroughly learned that they are done automatically without any conscious effort . |
| 18 | Either it refers to behaviour which does not have to be learned or it refers to behaviour which has been so thoroughly learned that it can be done ‘ naturally ’ , ie without conscious thought and application . |
| 19 | And the right whale has been so heavily hunted that its numbers have been reduced to three per cent of original stock . |
| 20 | As I said earlier , name identification campaigns are routine in the United States but not so common in Europe , although there have been cases where a candidate has been so successfully promoted that he has won , despite his local party 's unpopularity at the time . |
| 21 | It has considerable agility , and its powers of dry staccato have been so much exploited that this form of musical humour has quite lost its savour nowadays . |
| 22 | It had been too easily assumed that strong representation by teachers through their unions ( which usually meant representation by powerful and semi-professional members who spent little time in class-rooms ) would somehow guarantee the active interest and participation of large numbers of ordinary teachers . |
| 23 | It has perhaps been too readily assumed that fear of death among Victorians was primarily fear of hell-fire . |
| 24 | He has now achieved a similar reversal of consensus with regard to Clavierübung 111 and the Canonic Variations on ‘ Vom Himmel hoch ’ It has been too readily assumed that printed works were conceived as entities in their final form shortly before publication . |