Example sentences of "[adv] been [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of it was of the Louis XIV period ( which has a much more limited market than Louis XVI furniture ) , and in contrast to the freshness of the Patiño lots , had mostly been recently bought at high prices . |
| 2 | In addition , the semantic analyser has since been successfully applied to other text recognition applications ( notably OCR systems ) . |
| 3 | On the basis of tests carried out in the North Sea by the Laboratory , Bayne believes that organic pollutants may be having a greater impact on marine life than heavy metals such as lead , mercury and cadmium , which had hitherto been widely blamed for most of the damage . |
| 4 | It had only been recently acknowledged by official bodies that psychology could offer some understanding of young people 's problems . |
| 5 | They 've all been partially excluded from mainstream schools , where they found it hard to fit in . |
| 6 | This had all been properly reported to Eighth Army . |
| 7 | We have all been too influenced by medieval demonology and Milton . |
| 8 | They 'd obviously been badly infected at some time . |
| 9 | The castle had not been properly maintained for many years and after the auction it was allowed to crumble . |
| 10 | By attenuating the link between ownership and control , the benefits have not been widely distributed among local entrepreneurs and individuals ( Sieh and Chew , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | The defendants sought to argue that the plaintiff was prevented from claiming breach of warranty since the material fact constituting the breach had been disclosed to the plaintiff at a meeting prior to signing the disclosure letter but had not been eventually contained in that letter . |
| 12 | If there is regret over the failure of Resolution 242 as a blueprint for peace , which had seemed so promising in 1967 , there are grounds for even greater regret that the 1949 ( IVth ) Geneva Convention has not been vigorously upheld by those who claimed to be seeking a basis for peace . |
| 13 | The position regarding administration orders over unregistered companies has not been finally settled by judicial decision . |
| 14 | The effect of the order of Waite J. , had it not been immediately stayed by this court , might have been to require the health authority to put J. on a ventilator in an intensive care unit , and thereby possibly to deny the benefit of those limited resources to a child who was much more likely than J. to benefit from them . |
| 15 | Balboa might find it amusing : nearly five centuries later , the land he crossed in the sixteenth century on foot has still not been completely bridged for those crossing it by car . |
| 16 | Africa and south-east Asia had still not been completely apportioned into outright possessions or Spheres of influence , but great European empires already existed . |
| 17 | The tachistoscopic and dichotic listening techniques lack reliability and , by and large , have not been adequately validated against other criteria . |
| 18 | In retrospect many Conservatives felt that the ill-fated 1971 Industrial Relations Act had been too ambitious and that the ground had not been adequately prepared for such a sweeping measure . |
| 19 | The theories which have been advanced so far have not been adequately tested in empirical research so as to gain credibility . |
| 20 | So , it is far safer for the child in your car if , even though the law does not require it , rear seat belts or restraints are specially installed into cars where they have not been automatically fitted from new . |
| 21 | Plsama polyunsaturated fatty acids patterns have not been previously assessed in ulcerative volitis whereas information in Crohn 's disease is limited . |
| 22 | The appeal raises questions under the Children Act 1989 which have not been previously considered by this court . |
| 23 | Life stories have not been previously used in this way partly because sociologists have been more concerned with problems of deprivation , and oral historians with recapturing the experience of childhood and early adulthood in previous periods . |
| 24 | As we have seen , however , gays have not been well served within this tradition . |
| 25 | THE SOUTH EAST of England has not been well blessed with main-line steam action but it was different in June this year when there was action at Ashford , the Folkestone Harbour branch and the Andover-Eastleigh to Exeter Specials . |
| 26 | However , such areas have not been well characterized in physiological and anatomical studies . |
| 27 | ‘ But that is a quite separate issue from the Alternative Services book which is an alternative way of enabling congregations who have not been well versed in Cranmerian language nevertheless to use a language which does reflect their longings and their prayers and can speak to them of God . ’ |
| 28 | The deputy judge refused probate of the 1982 document on the grounds that it had not been duly executed in that , although the amendment by section 17 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 of section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 allowed a valid signature to be made otherwise than at the foot of the will , it had not altered the requirement that the testator should have made his will before signing it ; and that , in any event , the testator had lacked testamentary capacity . |
| 29 | Existing international agreements , such as the ILO Convention , have not been fully ratified by all member states , and are regarded as inadequate in providing for the needs of the successful creation of the SEM . |
| 30 | The argument was rejected , in part , because the provisions of the Geneva Convention had not been fully incorporated into English law , despite being ratified . |