Example sentences of "[adv] has been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highly organized learned career which obtained in the empire from the late sixteenth century onward has been described by a number of authors , western and Turkish , most recently by Gibb and Bowen in their Islamic Society and the West and by Uzuncarsili in his . |
| 2 | The argument herein has been to point to a range of images , which focused not so much on sociological types ( conformist and delinquent behaviour ) , but on those pertaining to occupations , education , and the psychological state of ‘ personality ’ . |
| 3 | The job of keeping them together has been entrusted to a series of ‘ confidants ’ who write his books , churn out his articles , furnish his quotes , capture his image and sweeten the sour , and when I once asked Niki why he would n't ever do a serious — and in consequence , a truthful — book about himself , he replied , why should he ? |
| 4 | Since that time , the mathematical evidence that black holes can emit thermally has been confirmed by a number of other people with various different approaches . |
| 5 | Still less has been made of a functionally similar underclass in the United States . |
| 6 | Schick ( 1972 p. 16 ) states that ‘ budgeting always has been conceived as a process for systematically relating expenditure of funds to the accomplishment of planned objectives ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Every room here has been booked since a year ago , and I was dearly hoping Donna would screw up the nerve to send her packing , but Mrs Foster happened by , and Matthew 's fiancée recognised her . |
| 8 | Still on the right and at eye level on Kampa Island are the eaves of the House of the Virgin Mary , where a painting of the Virgin which was said to have come floating downstream has been used as a house sign and a cult object . |
| 9 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |