Example sentences of "been [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had been dead no more than an hour when he was found … |
| 2 | Well , she 's been dead longer than that , has n't she ? ’ |
| 3 | She 's been dead longer than Louisa , but … ’ |
| 4 | Roxie had been dead right too , as it turned out . |
| 5 | Taking one thing with another : body temperature , ambient temperature , the fact that Saturn is in the ascendant and it 's Sunday , I 'd say he 's been dead up to eighteen hours , probably not less than fourteen , that puts it between nine and one last night . |
| 6 | It could almost have been dead already : a passive progression from birth to death with no awareness of life at all . |
| 7 | If she had n't been dead already the shock of his going to prison would have killed her . |
| 8 | ‘ But she was very brave and amazed the doctors by doing things when they thought she should have been dead long ago . ’ |
| 9 | 30 " He was dead when he went in , and as he 'd been dead only for about six to seven hours , it could n't have been longer than that . |
| 10 | He 's been dead more than thirty years , and no one sees his plays now . |
| 11 | The testicle had been dead so they had taken it out and sent it off for tests . |
| 12 | The voices that had been loudest only seconds before were the quietest now . |
| 13 | ‘ Someone , ’ said Inspector Milsom meaningfully , ‘ seems to have been altogether too careful to my way of thinking . ’ |
| 14 | It had been altogether too much to expect . |
| 15 | At a time when it would have been altogether too easy to disappear into the exacting but ultimately limiting routine of grammar-school teaching , Alfred Cobban enlivened and enlarged my interest in scholarly work . |
| 16 | John Dunner , the head of the National Radiological Protection Board , in an aside , made the interesting suggestion that perhaps there had been altogether too much information available about nuclear energy , rather than too little , ready material to use , either uncomprehendingly or fully aware , to stoke up polemical fires . |
| 17 | There 's been altogether too much guilt — too much pain already . |
| 18 | Not only had the reception of The Family Reunion been altogether more favourable than the ill-started attempt in 1939 , but both this play and Murder in the Cathedral were to be performed at the first Edinburgh Festival in the following year . |
| 19 | These bonds , subtler and more difficult to observe and interpret , have been most extensively studied in the experimental herd of Camargue horses at Tour du Valat . |
| 20 | Ask any graduating neuroscience student which organism had been most extensively used to study the cell biology of learning and the answer would probably be : Aplysia . |
| 21 | In the case of intrinsic importance , the factor that has been most extensively studied is animacy . |
| 22 | These electronic spectra are full of information about the electronic structures of the species responsible for them ; such spectra have been most extensively studied and analyzed , and there is no room in this book for a detailed account of their interpretation . |
| 23 | Gene regulation during herpes simplex type 1 ( HSV-1 ) infection in tissue culture has been most extensively analyzed . |
| 24 | Yet Amabel said a very pleasant good morning to his mother , her dear friend Maria , who had been most gratifyingly keen to marry this ecclesiastical son of hers to Gemma . |
| 25 | Form criticism has been most profitably used in the psalms and has revolutionized our understanding of them . |
| 26 | This philosophy finds expression in some recent social thought and has been most notably promulgated in the area of social services , producing on the far right a philosophy of welfare in which the care of family members is increasingly seen as a private problem , to be undertaken using family resources only , and to be underpinned only in extreme circumstances by a residual network of statutory services . |
| 27 | But Mr Robin Duval , chief television assistant at the IBA , the person who has been most closely involved in monitoring sponsorship , observes : ‘ The widely canvassed notion that sponsors never seek to influence programmes simply does not hold up in my personal and direct experience . ’ |
| 28 | Taken in isolation such a remark would not be significant , but in a speech which had mentioned the two institutions with which Stalin and Trotsky had been most closely associated , this reference to the Red Army must be seen as nudge and wink towards Trotsky . |
| 29 | That is what happened in late March to Vrej Baghoomian , whose gallery , a virtual airplane hangar in SoHo , had been most closely associated with the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat . |
| 30 | ( Where there is more than one Vendor or in the case where a company is the Vendor and the Purchaser requires warranties from the directors ) only Vendors/directors who have been most closely concerned with the Business , should give the warranties . |