Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its formidable bulk means that you are unlikely to want to carry it about with you if you can avoid it , but that has probably been true of most audit manuals for some time now . |
| 2 | That has always been one of the most heartening aspects of county cricket : mutual help , irrespective of the teams they represent . |
| 3 | I wonder when that has ever been possible during the lifetime of the NHS . |
| 4 | That has certainly been true of banks since the Basle capital standards were set in 1988 . |
| 5 | This has frequently been necessary in the case of information obtained by employees in the course of their employment . |
| 6 | This has surely been one of these : a much clearer seismic warning than any given previously of plate-movements underneath an increasingly despised and anachronistic system . |
| 7 | This has always been one of my favourite houses . |
| 8 | This has always been one of the basic ingredients of good adult education . |
| 9 | This has always been strongest in the southern States , with their history of slavery and the implicit belief , well-established in the local culture , in black inferiority — a belief capitalized on for more than a century after the Civil War by the Democrats ( see below ) . |
| 10 | This has long been one of my favourite Schnittke pieces , for its Russian-accented dodecaphony-on-stilts , for the post-Holocaust numbness of its third movement , and most of all for the unholy alliances of its finale , where Webern seems to be jiving to West Side Story and Shostakovich meets Vivaldi for a deadly serious jam session . |
| 11 | You have the score in your mind — you once said you do n't need a tape or a score to oversee in your mind the whole of Tristan — and this has obviously been true of other great conductors . |
| 12 | This has only been possible with the help of Bressingham Steam Museum and Cumbria 's Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway . |
| 13 | The organisation of this has only been possible with the close cooperation and support of District Managers , and their designated staff . |
| 14 | At the same time he announced that economic austerity measures , including a freeze on public sector promotions , were to be " reconsidered " ; this had also been one of the demands of the workers ' organizations . |
| 15 | This had only been possible before using invasive manometric techniques or ionising radiation . |
| 16 | This had especially been true of the larger members . |
| 17 | This had indeed been one of the aims of the scientific societies of the seventeenth century , such as the Royal Society ; and it was best realized in the superb plates in the Encyclopèdie of Diderot and d'Alembert which show French manufactures in the middle of the eighteenth century , before the industrial revolution changed techniques . |
| 18 | This had occasionally been available from the Central Electricity Board , whose own commercial staff negotiated some large industrial sales contracts for undertakings . |
| 19 | Michael Edwards , taking a paradoxical approach , has argued that the English have always been strong on literary theory , instancing a distinguished succession of poet-critics : Sidney , Dryden , Johnson , Wordsworth , Coleridge , Shelley , Arnold , Eliot . |
| 20 | While the French have long been convinced of the value of massage with natural ingredients in the treatment of cellulite , the British are sometimes sceptical . |
| 21 | Apart from creating a catastrophe point where an extra per cent of votes can theoretically send a party from 15 to 66 per cent of the council ( the French have never been comfortable with simple democracy ) this , also theoretically , gives minority parties a voice . |
| 22 | Russia in 1917 had indeed been ripe for socialist revolution ; Lenin had applied the science of society with brilliant precision ; and under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism the party had provided unfailing leadership of the working masses from that day to this . |
| 23 | As an importer , you are secure in the knowledge that the goods for which you are paying have already been despatched/ As an exporter , you retain control of the goods until the importer has paid or agreed to pay . |
| 24 | These have sometimes been effective in wartime : almost never in peacetime . |
| 25 | From time to time I have had vivid dreams in which the Majestic has again been open for business , the glass cases full of photographs , lit up , with posters advertising wonderful movies covering the outside walls . |
| 26 | Some of the unemployed are young , some are old and many have never been unemployed in their life . |
| 27 | The latter have also been aware of a closer and more detailed interest in how they use resources and efficiency : ‘ cost-improvement ’ programmes have been introduced and performance scrutinised . |
| 28 | The first three months of this year we 've had an increase in sales , but those have really been attributable to improved er t to stronger U S and Canadian currency rates . |
| 29 | The bed had been turned down , however , and he assumed the maid who had done that had also been responsible for leaving the room unsecured . |
| 30 | More than two-thirds have previously been involved in making an acquisition and most are in their forties . |