Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The device could 've been planted as early as Saturday morning and police want to speak to anyone who went there from that time , to when the alarm was raised yesterday . |
| 2 | And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed . |
| 3 | The decision was communicated to our staff late in 1992 and I am pleased to say that the wind-down has been handled as efficiently as could be wished . |
| 4 | Some of these matters clearly fall within the ‘ good neighbour ’ concept , ’ while others are based on the principle that compensation is not to be paid merely because maximum exploitation has been prevented so long as development of a reasonably remunerative character is allowed . |
| 5 | Lee Jackson has been competing very well as hooker and deserves another chance . |
| 6 | In 1948 , Francis Rogallo and his wife Gertrude were granted their patent for the flexible kite that has been credited so often as the origin of the ‘ modern ’ species . |
| 7 | This time around , the computerisation curve has flattened out , so the electronics industry has been hit as hard as any . |
| 8 | It has been gathering there ever since the breach was healed . |
| 9 | If Richard Herrnstein ( ’ IQ encounters with the press ’ , 28 April , p 230 ) has been treated as shabbily as he says by American newspapers , that is unforgivable . |
| 10 | The lobby has been operating even longer than MI5 and is almost as well known but unlike the secret service , the existence of the lobby has still not been officially acknowledged . |
| 11 | So although no route can more truly be called a " beaten track " than the one which heads for the Gotthard Pass , now that the old Gotthard road has been supplanted so far as through traffic is concerned by the Basel-Chiasso motor expressway ( E9 , N2 ) , many towns and villages on the old road can be rated as " off the beaten track " . |
| 12 | This prescriptive approach has been repeated as recently as October 1988 , when the director of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools in Northern Ireland said that people who sent their children to integrated schools rather than catholic ones were breaking the law of the church . |
| 13 | Autumn arrival has been noted as early as 10 July , but usually starts in late October , and passage has been noted in November . |
| 14 | Some of that deal has been produced as far as the Tornado 's concerned , but again you 're quite right we 're waiting for the announcement of the er orders for the trains . |
| 15 | The first course began in 1978 and has been recruiting satisfactorily ever since on an annual basis . |
| 16 | The aim has been to ensure as far as possible employment opportunities are not lost or unduly constrained simply because there is a shortage of suitable sites . |
| 17 | The question of justifiability has been considered by the courts in a number of employment cases , where it has been construed most recently as meaning that the discriminatory effect of the requirement or condition must be weighed against its ‘ reasonable necessity ’ for the purposes of the business enterprise in question . |
| 18 | Before the brigade of receptionists change shift they must ensure that all work has been processed as far as possible and that any messages or matters to be dealt with are brought to the attention of the evening shift . |
| 19 | How rich it is to hear the Scottish Labour leader impugn the integrity of the SNP when the integrity of Labour Party policies in the last year has been stretched so far as to be invisible . |
| 20 | Current government strategy on unemployment has been described fairly aptly as being the carrot and stick approach . |
| 21 | Claudia did n't know Garry , or even his surname ; Dana had always had men in her life , but she had n't seemed serious about any of them , and so far Claudia had hoped in vain that she would find someone to love and to provide the anchor she 'd been missing so badly since their mother had died . |
| 22 | Although the South Downs were cleared at a very early stage in man 's history in Britain , the clearing of the Wealden forest was delayed until the medieval period , the height of the clearance being in the 13th and 14th centuries , although parts may have been cleared as early as the ninth century . |
| 23 | If the island did become detached in the way he suggests , then the mountainous regions in the south would have been separated far longer than the northern parts . |
| 24 | The shadow budget was also politically inept , although its positive features could have been defended much better than they were . |
| 25 | In few periods in early Ottoman history can that need have been felt more strongly than in the years following Ankara . |
| 26 | She must have been driving more erratically than she thought for she found herself half skewed across the road . |
| 27 | The reason I shall vote against the motion and for the amendment could n't have been put more succinctly than it was by Mr , I think Mr made the most pertinent remark that has been made in the debate today , when in opposition to what Mr said about individual freedom he said this is a matter of personal conscience . |
| 28 | They were often made from bone and antler , although wood may have been used more often than is now apparent because it rarely survives . |
| 29 | Suction could have been provided overnight only when clinically indicated and an assessment tool used to give the patient a longer rest period between interventions . |
| 30 | Detectives said Mrs Page-Alucard may have been murdered as early as Friday morning , more than 24 hours before her body was discovered . |