Example sentences of "has [been] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Even so , prisoners do not normally riot unless this sense of injustice has been somehow inflamed beyond its normal simmering state .
2 This has been generously supported by the Department of Health , the Nuffield Foundation , Bearing Trust , Allied Dunbar and will be launching that early next year .
3 The zippy Toyota MR2 , which has been generously supplied by Northway Toyota of Bootle and Maghull , is a neat machine with a built-in ability to turn heads .
4 It has been persistently asserted by policy-makers , some administrative law scholars , and those concerned with the administration of tribunals , that the informality of tribunals , their simplicity , and their accessibility , have rendered representation both unnecessary and undesirable .
5 It has been rhetorically espoused by politicians and sceptically analysed by academics .
6 This has been exactly reversed . ’
7 This emphasis has been notably theorized and exemplified in Lukacs ( translated 1971 ) , Goldmann ( translated 1975 ) and in Bloch et al .
8 But in the later scenes with Carlos , and especially in his great aria after he has been mortally wounded , he recovered his true form .
9 Lyric poetry has been misleadingly categorized as " subjective " art .
10 Indeed , it has been lately feared … ’
11 Of course , the argument is highly teleological and incapable of scientific proof , but it has been rigorously defended by brilliant minds and can not be lightly dismissed .
12 It has been slightly crushed .
13 The law on the control over sexually violent images has been slightly strengthened with the introduction of legislation against the ‘ video nasties ’ and the banning of pornographic images from direct public view , although not preventing their availability .
14 Only the fabrics store-room has been slightly damaged . ’
15 The rule has been slightly relaxed over the last few years , although only in relation to secondary legislation ; it has also been breached from time to time by a number of judges , not least by judicial free spirit , the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning .
16 ( Note : this has been slightly modified .
17 This pretty long bob has been slightly curled to add sexy movement and body .
18 This version has been slightly customized for a British audience .
19 So including them here on a stock instrument represents something of a treat for the would-be vintage guitar purchaser who has been otherwise stopped in his tracks by the silly money habitually demanded for early '60s Strats .
20 But while the current downpours brought flood alerts to rivers in Wales and the West Country , over in East Anglia , where the drought has been worst felt , the impact was less spectacular .
21 Of these , steel making has been worst hit .
22 There is , however , another element which has been frequently misunderstood , as indicated in the 1969 paper : the continued occupation with a serious lowering of living standards .
23 In sociological and anthropological literature the phatic use of language has been frequently commented on — particularly the conventional use of language to open talk-exchanges and to close them .
24 As has been frequently pointed out , it is no use providing excellent beer or food if the pub in question has lost all of its charm and atmosphere ; and surely a multi-roomed pub , with a number of differing environments , is the best way to serve what is after all always a very diverse and unstandardised community .
25 It is one of the easiest measures for the government to control , but it has been frequently criticized as being of little use as an indicator of spending power in the economy since it excludes the most important component of money supply , namely bank deposits , and includes money in banks ' tills which is the money that banks need to keep in their tills as a ‘ float ’ .
26 Marxism has been frequently derided for its explanations of political behaviour in Western democracies .
27 The point has been frequently made that there is no necessary reason why ‘ dog ’ should mean the familiar , faithful , barking , domestic quadruped , which in other languages , gets referred to as chien , Hund , cane , etc .
28 It has been frequently noted that two separate streams run through the history of the development of African primary school curricula in the last fifty years of the colonial period .
29 Although no one has set up an experiment to show that horses in a mentally enriched environment have superior intelligence to those reared in a mentally deprived environment , this has been frequently shown with smaller animals .
30 published by the Royal Historical Society , London , in 1945 , it has been frequently reprinted with minor corrections .
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