Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [adv] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They 'd obviously been badly infected at some time . |
| 3 | The castle had not been properly maintained for many years and after the auction it was allowed to crumble . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The appeal raises questions under the Children Act 1989 which have not been previously considered by this court . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As we have seen , however , gays have not been well served within this tradition . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ( This had , however , not been fully enforced for some years , and it was estimated that around 15,000 abortions were performed annually in Belgium . ) |
| 15 | Even after more than fifty years they have not been fully appreciated by many philosophers , and are still the subject of much controversy . |
| 16 | There is no system of health care delivery that has not been adversely affected by this fragmentation of people and their services . |
| 17 | The quiet road on the heath has already been coarsely widened on both sides to form a half mile long car park with Pay and Display ticket machines . |
| 18 | And it 's always been actually situated at this very shop here on ? |
| 19 | The stunning technique , incidentally , has also been independently invented by several unrelated groups of fish , for example electric " eels " ( which are not true eels but whose shape is convergent on true eels ) and electric rays . |
| 20 | Other desert flora and fauna have also been adversely affected by this type of activity as well as the use of dune-buggies and jeeps . |
| 21 | But applied linguistics has made very little direct impact on either English mother tongue teaching ( though scholars such as Harold Rosen have clearly been well read in this field ) or on general Education . |
| 22 | The outreach approach has now been successfully attempted by many projects and institutions confirming the view of those who insist that educational institutions must be more open and outgoing if they are to provide a worthwhile community education service . |
| 23 | These principles have now been generally adopted across all platforms , although since the Macintosh GUI is embedded in the system architecture most of these characteristics are enforced in Macintosh software design and engineering . |
| 24 | The need to work for a living is widely recognized , but the necessity to do so may have often been bitterly resented by many people over the years . |
| 25 | By contrast , says Clarke , the poor and working class within those communities have often been more accepting of those ‘ who would be outcast by the ruling culture — many times to spite the white man , but mainly because the conditions of our lives have made us empathic ’ . |
| 26 | So we must at least conclude from this that the purposes for which ordinary people wanted political democracy , or the vote , have not yet been completely fulfilled by any means . |
| 27 | The breed was initially dual-purpose , whatever its colour , but for the most part ceded its milking role to the neighbouring Ayrshire ; it has continued as a beef breed but has never been intensively developed for that role . |
| 28 | The unique atmosphere of Anthony Hope 's Ruritania , its compound of energy and idealism , of courtly formality and personal passion , has never been precisely evoked in any of its numerous imitations . |
| 29 | He stared right into her eyes , and she thought that she had never been so enraged in all her life . |
| 30 | I have never been so humiliated in all my life . |