Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sister Marcus said Mr Francis was rather poorly and had been moved from the Seriously Ill to the Dangerously Ill List . |
| 2 | GPSG is computationally economical and has been developed to a point where a large number of interesting syntactic phenomena may be dealt with in an integrated formal framework . |
| 3 | For example , if the product proves less stable than had been anticipated it may be necessary to shorten the intervals between examinations . |
| 4 | In fact , however , our knowledge here is not so deficient as has been imagined . |
| 5 | The effects of evacuation were perceived in terms of social pathology , so that although evacuation was pronounced less harmful than had been feared the effect of the analysis was to see the normal development of children as problematic , and to emphasise the compensatory role of agencies outside the family — school and its directing bodies in particular . |
| 6 | THE GASH sustained by Carroll House after he proved himself a cut above the rest of Europe in Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe looked a lot less serious than had been feared when Britain 's new equine hero was examined on his return to Newmarket yesterday , writes John Karter . |
| 7 | The package was less comprehensive than had been expected , however , for observers agreed that the options available to Lee were restricted by sharply rising inflation ( consumer prices rose by over 3 per cent in the first quarter of 1990 ) which precluded any general reduction in interest rates . |
| 8 | I had hoped to be the editor of a book all on my own at last , but this project is important and so urgent that have been drafted on to help . |
| 9 | If , however , we wish to prove the existence of ‘ the back of ’ something using quite different criteria of testimony and disallowing all those activities which gave rise to the concept in the first place , then perhaps our proof of the uncertainty of the existence of backs will be less powerful than has been imagined . |
| 10 | The modest resettlement programme in rural areas which aimed to improve the grossly inequitable distribution of land prevailing during the colonial period was less effective than had been hoped , and was cut back by the stabilization measures taken in 1982–84 . |
| 11 | According to this position , the aim of narrative poetics is to produce a typology which includes all possible narrative forms , not only those that have been realized in the past . |
| 12 | But disaster , when it came , was less severe than had been foretold . |
| 13 | The cost of the service turned out to be much higher than had been predicted . |
| 14 | She is extremely distressed and has been seen by a police surgeon . |
| 15 | From this standpoint it may be doubted whether the present image of nationalism is quite so unfavourable as has been claimed . |
| 16 | The fact that NTS have deliberately cut publicity about Ben Lawers is not new and has been reported many times . |
| 17 | It is approximately 1:1.618 and has been recognized by artists throughout history as being uniquely harmonious . |
| 18 | Overall , it appeared by the middle of March that the Gulf environment was proving more resilient than had been feared , but environmentalists cautioned that the full extent of the damage would not be apparent for some time , particularly as the oil sank to the bed of the shallow Gulf , where it would damage vital food plants . |
| 19 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 20 | Six patients are still alive and have been undergoing tratment for 5.5–24 months ( median 15 months ) . |
| 21 | Moreover , the peasantry were proving more acquiescent than had been expected , and the government was responding to the financial concern of the nobility with a variety of measures including plans to establish provincial banks . |
| 22 | However , in a more recent study Nyman and Silberston cast some doubt on the growth of management control , reporting that as high a figure as 56.25 of the top 250 companies in the UK were still controlled by shareholders , and concluding that ‘ the extent of managerial control is more limited than has been thought and may not have an inexorable tendency to increase . |
| 23 | Female social participation may have been more widespread than has been realized . |
| 24 | Although industrial disputes were much less common than food riots , historians have recently come to recognise that they were much more frequent than had been allowed . |
| 25 | The issue of satisfaction with housework is more complex than has been suggested so far . |
| 26 | Such help is more complex than has been conveyed by my observations of the student 's work with John . |
| 27 | At that time this office was doubtless regarded as less significant than under an adult king , and Fordham was no politician , but proximity to the boy king and his household soon proved more important than had been intended . |
| 28 | ‘ These new results are much more extreme than had been suggested by the 20-year follow-up , where premature death was only twice as common in smokers as in non-smokers . |
| 29 | The information was available in the summer and , as the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland said , it is his experience as a local Member of Parliament that the nuclear industry is much more open than has been alleged by the hon. Member for Moray . |
| 30 | ‘ Since the late Sixties , ’ says Richard , ‘ the women have become more active and have been standing up for themselves , as is only right , but men have become more passive . |