Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [adv] " 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 | Mr James ‘ Jimmy ’ Nail , the thespian of unrestricted growth who gives working people his Spender , has been generously delivering himself of his Weltschmerz . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But in truth their tour , the English section of which ends with the third Test at Wigan today , has been persistently downbeat . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By s. 3 of the 1986 Act the court may make a disqualification order where it appears that the person has been persistently in default in delivering returns , accounts or other documents to the Registrar of Companies . |
| 8 | The inclusion of the word " reasonably " gives the court a discretion which will be exercised in the tenant 's favour where for example he has made one or two late payments of rent , but not where he has been persistently in arrear throughout the term ( Bassett v Whiteley ( 1982 ) 54 P & CR 87 ) . |
| 9 | It has been rhetorically espoused by politicians and sceptically analysed by academics . |
| 10 | When so large a part of modern politics , above all in America , is concerned with policies which an insight into the psychology of envy would reveal to be inherently futile , it is perhaps not surprising that the study of that psychology has been instinctively or deliberately neglected . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , strike partner While there has been no doubting the high regard Beardsley is held in around Everton , many had begun to question Mo Johnston , whose future at Goodison had been in doubt after two months in the cold , looks to have earned a temporary reprieve following his equaliser against Liverpool . |
| 12 | There has been no tipping here for many years , and already the bank seems to be slowly settling back into the earth from which it came . |
| 13 | There has been no obtaining by deception . |
| 14 | This has been exactly reversed . ’ |
| 15 | For a man who was leading the campaign for sanctions against South Africa , when that was still a hopeless liberal cause , he has been notably diffident about such things as collective punishment and detention without trial in the Israeli-occupied territories . |
| 16 | Strangely , nobody said anything , but the culprit has been notably absent from subsequent holidays . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , as Layard and Nickell ( 1989 ) have shown , Britain 's recent record on education and training has been notably inadequate . |
| 18 | Yet another relevant ideology , which infects judges , governments and the general public in greater or lesser degrees at different times , is the ideology of law and order , which has been notably and provocatively analysed by the Marxist theorist Stuart Hall ( 1979 , 1990 ; Hall et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 19 | This emphasis has been notably theorized and exemplified in Lukacs ( translated 1971 ) , Goldmann ( translated 1975 ) and in Bloch et al . |
| 20 | I say minimal both because it is rather modest , in contrast say to Jakobson 's , and because it seems to present a demand that it should be very difficult for modern literary studies to deny : that in describing the language of literary texts a degree of rigour is required such as has been notably absent from the work of a great many critics . |
| 21 | These then are the origins and development of the concepts and proposals which have become the substance of the Maastricht Treaty , but about which the public has been notably ill-informed . |
| 22 | But in the later scenes with Carlos , and especially in his great aria after he has been mortally wounded , he recovered his true form . |
| 23 | Lyric poetry has been misleadingly categorized as " subjective " art . |
| 24 | Indeed , it has been lately feared … ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It has been slightly crushed . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This pretty long bob has been slightly curled to add sexy movement and body . |
| 29 | There has been slightly greater interest in Cued Speech , but again the findings have mainly consisted of case studies or unsubstantiated claims . |
| 30 | 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 . |