Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will lead me to take seriously some of those attributes of professional work which have perhaps been dismissed too lightly in recent work as mere political rhetoric . |
| 2 | ‘ If geography is to play a full role in the study of environmental problems it is important that greater stress be given to the biosphere , which constitutes a vital resource base for man , and which has been altered more extensively by human activities than most other elements of the environment . ’ |
| 3 | According to a study by the Belorussian Ministry of Health , the incidence of thyroid cancer in children rose from on average four per year in 1986-89 to 56 in 1991 , and at least another 60 cases have been diagnosed thus far in 1992 . |
| 4 | For had it not been raining so hard on that Tuesday evening I would have arrived at the Philharmonia Hall in good time . |
| 5 | But now I think they do n't many so it 's not you know this up to sort of like thirteen they 've been taught constantly once to that age . |
| 6 | The law firms within it have been competing very strongly with each other , there are six extremely good law firms in Leeds and their I think that that experience in competition over the last few years will stand them in very good stead . |
| 7 | In April two Saudi-flag tankers , one the ULCC Safina al-Arab , appear to have been caught quite separately by Iraqi aircraft close to Kharg . |
| 8 | He has been booked only twice in 500 or 600 appearances . |
| 9 | He had no answer — save that British scientists had been reorganised so often in recent years that it was time for stability . |
| 10 | We had been looking forward rather to this little drive between East and West Tarbert , but our greatest pleasure was when we stepped safely down at the pier where the little Islay steamer " Fingal " was waiting to carry us to this island of Jura . |
| 11 | Less has been done so far in urban Italy . |
| 12 | Nothing has been said so far about precise content , for example , which world religions should be included , or whether the focus should be mainly on Christianity , how far non-religious stances such as Humanism should feature in RE , or what to do about the occult , and so forth . |
| 13 | It may , however , be useful to make a distinction between two different types of state to which such labels have been applied relatively indiscriminately by different authors . |
| 14 | Industrialization had been seen as the key to international strength , and industrial development had been pushed forward regardless of rural and urban poverty , environmental damage and social and economic dislocation . |
| 15 | As we shall see , this is a point which has been made most forcefully by recent feminist writing . |
| 16 | Little mention has been made so far of those elements of material forms which relate to each other in an ordered fashion , and which may thereby influence the manner in which they are utilized in constituting cultural patterns or acting as systems of meaning . |
| 17 | If the process of evolution had not been presented in this way ( though with careful caveats ) it is very questionable whether it could have been accepted so rapidly by Victorian society . |
| 18 | Many urban tradesmen , especially those connected with the building industry , seem to have invested in a small way in housing for rent , but there can be little doubt that the special facilities in raising capital conferred by acts of parliament on turnpike trusts and canal companies enabled them to become the recipients of a flow of capital from sources which would not otherwise have been drawn so directly towards economic improvements . |
| 19 | It 's been contoured quite nicely in all the familiar places , though , and the finish , too , is fine . |
| 20 | Tickets had not been going too well for this event before the European Indoor , but afterwards Cosford was soon sold out . |
| 21 | The " Pseudo-Isidorean " team could have accomplished their work nowhere else in the Carolingian world , any more than the series of conciliar acts and episcopal statutes could have been produced anywhere else on such a sustained large scale . |
| 22 | Audio recordings have been used very successfully for this purpose . |
| 23 | In the social sciences at large the word has often been used very loosely for any approach which applies scientific method to human affairs , conceived of as part of the natural order . |
| 24 | No such punishment had been confirmed by any Home Secretary since June 1962 , and it had been used only sparingly before that . |
| 25 | Despite this , standard-based interpretations have been used so frequently in diachronic description that they have greatly affected the conceptualization of language history that we inherit from older generations of scholars . |
| 26 | One of the most ingenious examples illustrated is St Luke 's , in Harrogate , a handsome Victorian church on a prominent street corner , which has been transformed almost imperceptibly into 29 flats by a housing association . |
| 27 | The simple sieves we have been considering so far in this chapter are all examples of single-step selection . |
| 28 | Walpole-Bond noted that eggs were only very exceptionally laid before the end of April , but in recent years nests with eggs have been found in February ( the 26th , 1967 ) , and have been noted fairly regularly in late March and early April . |
| 29 | The conclusion could hardly be avoided that the Führer , who only a short while before had been speaking so confidently of imminent victory , had been mistaken . |
| 30 | Though many commentators drew attention to the job-displacing tendencies of microelectronics technology it is likely that the reason their gloomy forecasts were paid so much attention was because unemployment had been rising fairly fast in most industrialised countries following the two oil price hikes in the 1970s and the consequent world economic recession . |