Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] [prep] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | The as I said this , this is required for identification for the organism , but the to the toxin has been recognised for a very , very long time and right from er , the early days the possibility of inactivating the biological properties of a toxin while retaining their immunological properties has been attractive to people seeking to prevent these diseases . |
| 2 | I welcome this book on two major counts : first , because it succeeds in what should be the aim of every author , that is to educate and entertain , and secondly because it has been written by a very knowledgeable person who genuinely cares for his dogs , has bred a consistent type for many years and has put as much into the ‘ dog game ’ as he has taken out . |
| 3 | Now the estate is in the hands of Dr Douglas Wise and Coldingham Loch has been developed into a very attractive fishery . |
| 4 | ‘ This has been done in a very formal and proper way . ’ |
| 5 | An interview with this adviser subsequently confirmed that the self-appraisal was not accorded great importance : ‘ On the role of the self-appraisal , it seems to me that the whole thing has been made into a very big deal and ought not to be . |
| 6 | It has been a traumatic time for everyone at Burston during the past year or so and a great deal has been achieved over a very short time . |
| 7 | A contrary point of view has been maintained in a very popular socio-linguistic theory which has had considerable recent currency . |
| 8 | Our knowledge of the identification and distribution of stone axes in Britain has been gained from a very long-running co-operative research effort involving archaeologists and petrologists : over the last fifty years more than 7500 axes have been examined petrologically . |
| 9 | RIGHT The evidence from the site and the excavation itself has been reconstructed in a very vivid way at the Jorvik Viking centre , and is a very popular attraction for visitors from all over the world . |
| 10 | Director of Education , Keith Mitchell told the county council 's schools sub-committee that funding for six new nurseries has been preserved despite a very difficult financial year . |
| 11 | Evolutionary geomorphology has been used with a very different connotation by Thornes ( 1983b ) and this is introduced in chapter 8 ( p. 182 ) . |
| 12 | In Colombia , Trichoplusia ni NPV has been used on a very large scale against T. ni larvae on cotton . |
| 13 | This odd reversal of polygyny has been attributed to a very high rate of ground predation whereby clutches are easily lost . |
| 14 | At least two separate groups of birds do it , and it has been carried to a very high level of sophistication by dolphins and whales . |
| 15 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |
| 16 | What happened what happened really in , in Russia and China is er that they had a sort of captive lower class who 'd been used to a very authoritarian kind of rule so they were able to impose communism from above . |
| 17 | He wrote : ‘ But it is when we examine the zoology of these countries that we find what we most require — evidence of a very striking character that these great islands must once have formed a part of the continent , and could only have been separated at a very recent geological epoch . |
| 18 | For example , this selection of flowers could have been framed in a pale green mount , or the entire design could have been created on a very pale blue-grey background with no mount at all , both of which would have given a very different emphasis to the pink roses . |
| 19 | The first full edition seems to have been assembled in a very haphazard fashion , with names added as fast as they could be obtained , out of alphabetical order , and with an unreliable index . |
| 20 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 21 | One of the Quorn had been discovered in a very loose-box with a girl from the Cotswold and dropped from his team . |
| 22 | After their visit custodians noticed that a sketchbook ‘ had been mutilated in a very clumsy manner , by the abstraction of several leaves containing an unknown number of sketches or drawings . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Goldring said Miss Lowe had been injected with a very large amount of insulin . |
| 24 | The results , announced a few days later , made it clear that the proposition had been carried by a very large majority . |
| 25 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 26 | Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall . |
| 27 | Shelley was beginning to see that she had been put in a very special place of importance in Miguel 's confidence . |
| 28 | High-precision and high-resolution geochemical mapping have been developed to a very high standard by BGS . |
| 29 | Regional geochemical studies , including high-precision and high-resolution geochemical mapping , have been developed to a very high standard by the BGS . |
| 30 | Anyway , the implication of my argument , and of the neurological experiments to which I have referred , is that the functions of the left side of the brain have been developed in a very special way in the human species and that this specialization is reflected in the universals of human culture , including the general structure of language , all of which are reflections of the fact that the left side of the brain operates in binary logic . |