Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] been [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impact of the Thatcher government 's new thinking has most obviously been felt in the privatization programme for the state-owned and state-provided services . |
| 2 | It is generally the case , nevertheless , that in the 30 years since the signing of the Treaty , EC policies have only rarely been developed in a framework which explicitly evaluates the spatial impact of those policies . |
| 3 | They had turned her pillow so that it was fresh , and the tawdry finery had long since been replaced by a smooth , pale quilt that reached to her breast . |
| 4 | Today the garden is still there , although it has long since been absorbed into the sprawling outskirts of the town . |
| 5 | It has long since been turned into a pond and moat . |
| 6 | The special edition of the journal had long since been published by the time I got the material out of Iraq . ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Genette speaks of this change in emphasis as a restoration of equilibrium in literary studies : ‘ Literature had long enough been regarded as a message without a code for it to become necessary to regard it for a time as a code without a message ( 1982 : 7 ) . |
| 9 | The second site , at Chedworth , has for so long been accepted as the typical Romano-British villa , that one hesitates to question its function . |
| 10 | The one at Marham in Norfolk incorporates a World War One aeroplane of unspecified type and that at Upwood the Canberra which has for so long been associated with the RAF station . |
| 11 | The programmes of study give greater emphasis to oral communication , to planned cooperative work amongst pupils and to talk as a medium of learning than has perhaps generally been given in the past . |
| 12 | Britain has lagged behind , and the committee for the approval of protocols proposed by the Clothier report has only just been announced by the Department of Health . |
| 13 | It so happened that when John approached the manager and his wife they had only just been moved to the pub with the brief to try and improve relations between the pub and the local community . |
| 14 | As the ubiquity of stellar coronae had only just been discovered with the Einstein Observatory , the absence of coronae for stars of this type was tantalizing , especially as they seemed to disappear rather rapidly ( on an evolutionary timescale ) . |
| 15 | He was run off his legs the last time and he had only just been paid for the quarter . ’ |
| 16 | Charles felt a bit starchy in battle dress which had only just been issued to the TA . |
| 17 | He died five years ago but the museum 's only just been finished on the Mall below Capitol Hill . |
| 18 | ‘ This we consider to be a retrograde and unnecessary step , ’ particularly since these powers had only just been vested in the NRA under the Water Act , he said . |
| 19 | This is this is only just been laid on the table obviously this morning , has n't it ? |
| 20 | But like all the other previous employees , he 's only just been told about the loan : |
| 21 | Having been employed now for British Gas for the last twenty five years er , I 've got seventeen years of pensionable service , which has only just been negotiated through the G M B since nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety three and now it is probably one of the better pensions , company pension schemes , in the country . |
| 22 | Ye they 've only just been put onto a home account . |
| 23 | Indeed , they are utterances which are interpretations of utterances which have only just been processed by the hearer . |
| 24 | Here , in the tangle of islands and fjords that is Patagonia , the volcanic chain becomes established on the South American continent with Mt Burney , an obscure , almost unknown volcano which has only once been visited by a geologist , in 1911 . |
| 25 | Terry was , originally at least , a wing-half who had captured the eye of manager Cyril Spiers , and , after a season ( 1955–56 ) of coming to maturity and settling down to the demands of League football , he put together a run of 214 consecutive League appearances ( 234 with major Cup competitions ) which was a club record at the time and has only once been exceeded by the great John Jackson . |
| 26 | The floodlit night feeding of thousands of birds at the Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust has only ever been seen by the centre 's staff . |
| 27 | ‘ It has only ever been let in the summer , and no one has been here yet this year except the people last month , folk from Cornwall , I think . |
| 28 | And yet the matter had so nearly been blessed in a strange and unforeseen way , the Service had almost wriggled off the hook through no credit to itself … |
| 29 | The reality is that the scheme has so far been limited to a small number of well managed practices , which for the most part were generously funded and chosen to succeed . |
| 30 | The airline said they feared one of the dead was a British woman named Rebecca Gunner , who was known to be travelling on the flight but who has not so far been traced among the injured and rescued . |