Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ENGINEERS at Philips in Britain have secretly been working on a flat screen television for several years , while hotly denying the fact . |
| 2 | After his death in March 1984 , the armed forces seized power and the country has since been ruled by a Military Committee for National Recovery under the leadership of Brig. -Gen. ( now Maj.-Gen. ) |
| 3 | After his death in March 1984 the armed forces seized power and the country has since been ruled by a Military Committee for National Recovery ( CMRN ) . |
| 4 | They had turned her pillow so that it was fresh , and the tawdry finery had long since been replaced by a smooth , pale quilt that reached to her breast . |
| 5 | The two have since been combined in a single volume . |
| 6 | The woodwork , once painted white but now faded to a dingy cream with a grey deposit in the crevices , was chipped and scuffed and the pattern of leaves and flowers on the stair carpet had long since been reduced to a brownish blur . |
| 7 | The recovery of the gorilla population from 260 in the 1970s to today 's figure of 320 has hitherto been hailed as a conservation miracle . |
| 8 | The systems approach has necessarily been identified with a positivist approach and as such has been less resilient in human ( Johnston , 1983a ) than in physical geography . |
| 9 | English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years . |
| 10 | This limitation has only been seen as a major crisis by Philips since the emergence of DVI compression-decompression . |
| 11 | I believe that most men have an inborn desire to hunt and kill and that even today this primitive urge has only been eradicated in a small minority of the human race . |
| 12 | The Kitemark on a product will indicate that it has not only been made to a published specification , but that it has been independently tested by BSI as well . |
| 13 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 14 | The vast majority of ornamental metalwork has only been studied from a typological standpoint on the basis of form and decoration . |
| 15 | In fact , he has only been working as a professional for three years or so , and has had to learn his trade by trial and error . |
| 16 | Paatelainen had only been introduced as a substitute but he certainly made his presence felt in no uncertain manner with his 56th minute strike . |
| 17 | He was struck by the discovery of a version of the enzyme which previously had only been reported in a clinical isolate of Salmonella typhimurium from New Zealand |
| 18 | Some kinds of long-term memory seem to endure indefinitely even though they have apparently been lost for a long time , e.g. an older person may find it easy to recall childhood events with great clarity even though there has been no use of the material for fifty or sixty years . |
| 19 | He had apparently been adopted by a wealthy industrialist . |
| 20 | It must be said that this has apparently been achieved with a good deal of success in many societies in many different periods . |
| 21 | One large group of negatives had apparently been taken at a fancy dress party organised by the Duke of Devonshire — over 100 guests had been photographed , most of them with different background settings . |
| 22 | ICI , for all the apparent successes of the 1980s , has long been perceived as a lumbering , bureaucratic conglomerate , in which winners subsidise losers . |
| 23 | In Britain , with its strong two-party system , a government defeat on a vote of confidence has long been regarded as a theoretical possibility rather than practical politics . |
| 24 | Ultraviolet light has long been accepted as a provocative factor for herpes of the face and lips and many people find that their annual attack coincides with their visit to Majorca or trip to the ski slopes . |
| 25 | In the private sector the quality of leadership has long been recognised as a key factor affecting organisational performance . |
| 26 | Preventing the pollution of drinking water by untreated human excrement , for example , has long been recognised as a basic health concern . |
| 27 | Legal theory has long been bedevilled by a sterile debate between positivists and natural lawyers . |
| 28 | Hepatitis B was formerly referred to as ‘ serum hepatitis ’ because percutaneous exposure to contaminated blood has long been recognized as a major mode of transmission ; and cases of hepatitis B from blood transfusion , needlesticks , and sharing contaminated needles among drug abusers have been well documented . |
| 29 | The Bible has long been recognized as a composite work spanning many centuries , not some kind of monolithic whole , and whilst opinions differ widely as to the precise dating ( and methods of dating ) of its constituent parts , it remains the case that a book , or indeed a chapter , may lie in the received text next to a verse or chapter some several centuries removed in compositional/redactional terms from its neighbour . |
| 30 | Whilst ‘ the elderly ’ have long been recognized as a distinct social category , ever-stricter stratification by age has emerged since industrialization ( Thomas 1976 ; Quadragno 1982 ) . |