Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This much had been confided to him ; and he had deemed it discreet to pry no further — had been persuaded of the wisdom of discretion . |
| 2 | Keepers there gave them a bijou penthouse , an extensive garden and pretty soon they 'd sealed their union with a cub : one of very few ever to have been born in captivity . |
| 3 | In other words , and this again has been emphasised in more recent feminist theory , we are dealing not just with a ( constructed ) difference , but with a hierarchy . |
| 4 | This actually has been reported in patients with cirrhosis , Although there has not yet been a clinical or experimental study exploring this possibility in acute liver failure . |
| 5 | There was in other words an immense amount of political activity with absolutely no result and the details of that already has been referred to in moving energy both erm in emergency number two , so I can make , need make no reference , more reference to it , but we have left ourselves surely , totally dependent in a short future from outside the country on our energy . |
| 6 | In a pool of 30 WFS countries ( see Table 10 ) , the mortality of infants born less than 24 months after the preceding birth was found to be 80 per cent higher than that of infants fortunate enough to have been born after an interval of 24 to 47 months . |
| 7 | Second , the area was not fortunate enough to have been chosen for a government-supported demonstration project , despite the key issues of homelessness and health in the inner London areas served . |
| 8 | The dewar is the largest ever to have been flown in space , although smaller devices operate successfully . |
| 9 | And the price is a heavy one — compensation pay-outs for 1992-93 alone have been estimated at over £100m . |
| 10 | Jitters had been splashed with some of the liquid fire from the grenade , but he was lucky enough to have been blown through a hole in the wall by the blast . |
| 11 | Fluid flow turbulence , in contrast , is far too pervasive ever to have been regarded in this way . |
| 12 | Wyatt 's worldly recognition that his ‘ device ’ needed to be changed if he was to continue through the seasons is likely also to have been learned through his parts in kings ' games . |
| 13 | The roof together with the sides were bolted into position permanently , after which the sliding doors were fitted , these also having been built in a jig . |
| 14 | In a small way , private schemes also exist in Maryland and Ohio , though these too have been struggling of late . |
| 15 | Even if Article 36 bis had been included in the Vienna Convention on International Organisations it would not have applied in this situation . |
| 16 | In one test , for example , children are asked to identify a traditional English beer tankard — an object unlikely ever to have been seen by a child from a Muslim background in which alcohol is proscribed . |
| 17 | The military court which imposed the sentences , the most severe yet to have been imposed upon anti-Aquino coup participants , acquitted a further 20 men ; cases against a further 16 remained pending . |
| 18 | That surely has been testified to today when the very convenor of the panel on doctrine admits that he does n't want the statements to be too clear so that they can be understood and used by people of radically different persuasions . |
| 19 | The largest gathering away from Chichester Harbour appears to be of 19 at Rye Harbour in February 1968 and up to 13 together have been seen on inland waters , although single birds and parties of up to five are most usual . |
| 20 | If the girl had been killed locally , she is small enough to have been carried through the alleys — perhaps even by a woman . ’ |
| 21 | Thank you Chairman , I appreciate that erm prudence is n't flavour of the month in the current majority at this County Council and that indeed has been proved by several speeches from the opposition parties that were made this morning |
| 22 | Erm that again had been rolled into balls and then he 'd have erm about a dozen sticks which which held these balls and stuck them in then after he 'd he 'd erm er thatched one erm length , one row , he 'd pull the string over and attach it to the the thick s er rope that was er going over the stack . |
| 23 | Those of my readers who are young enough to have been exposed to " modern mathematics ' at school , and for whom it " took " , will be familiar already with the essentials of this rather sophisticated notion . |
| 24 | The emergence of the satire movement in the early sixties ‘ marked a new stage in the social revolution ’ : ‘ Like the pop artists ( and the pop singers yet to come ) the satirists formed part of a new generation coming to the surface in English life , one young enough to have been moulded by the garish , anarchic and youth-conscious atmosphere of the late fifties … . ’ |
| 25 | The meeting , which starts at 8.15 p.m. has been organised by the Alton and District Council of Churches . |
| 26 | The figure summarises information on timing of father 's employment in the nuclear industry and radiation exposure , in relation to the birth of his child , for the seven fathers ( four cases and three controls , of whom three and two respectively had been employed at the atomic weapons establishments in the area ) who were issued with dosimeters . |
| 27 | Since 1955 both had been swamped with material from Operation Gold and even six years later MI6 was still transcribing voice tapes from the tunnel operation . |
| 28 | Sheriff McKay had also suggested altering timetables to space train movements further apart , but that too had been rejected by Mr Seymour . |
| 29 | was pleasantly surprised even to have been selected for one of the 12 British pairs that went to Germany , and pleased to have come 80th from around 1000 pairs . |
| 30 | True there 'd been found in Alicia 's desk , but everyone thought that was just an accident , now they began to wonder if someone had put them there , not Alicia , Lizzie would n't do a thing like that , but somebody , it was getting near half term and new the girls were excited because some of them were expecting visits from there parents . |