Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [adj] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Japan and Britain scrapped their exchange controls in 1979 and remaining European controls disappeared during the late 1980s , investors have been far freer to seek out the best returns and to diversify their risks . |
| 2 | It may also be proposed , however , that some influential critics writing in England since 1980 have been particularly swift to recognize how the modern concert situation and the CD recital can draw performers of medieval and Renaissance music into realms of fantasy and gimmickry . |
| 3 | The team manager , who had run the campaign against Meyer in 1989 , appears to have been initially reluctant to take on the task . |
| 4 | But some of the branches apparently just like pinned it up , been quite happy to pin up the returned fax and then each consultant just gone and read his own bit . |
| 5 | If I had had qualifications I should not have been able to use them legally , and I should have been too hoity-toity to take on the sort of me-nial , unregulated work available . |
| 6 | The Israeli government has been agonisingly slow to take up the challenge , although it has calculated that US$3 billion will be needed over three years for housing , job creation and other aspects of large-scale immigrant absorption . |