Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the few stumps that remained of Verdun 's noble forests on the Right Bank , the bark either hung down in strips , or else had long since been consumed by half-starved pack-horses . |
| 2 | In the Septizonium , an ancient Roman temple at the south-east corner of the Palatine , which had long since been annexed for other uses , safe from outside interference and imperial troops , for it was still possible for emperors to attempt to interfere with elections , the election commenced after each cardinal had celebrated mass and all of them had exchanged the kiss of peace . |
| 3 | The old chestnut of rating a disk drive by its Data Access Time , or Average Seek Time has long since been overtaken by modern drive technology . |
| 4 | Never has so much been expected of general medical practitioners and practice staff ; general practitioners are being pressed to do audit , participate in commissioning , become fundholders , do research , improve consumer responsiveness , and develop new skills in the transfer of services from secondary to primary care and development of community care . |
| 5 | A disciplined , regular army was about to drive the gunmen from streets which had for so long been ruled by rival guerrillas exacting their own terrible day-to-day justice . |
| 6 | Industry has only just been restored to normal after being reduced to a three-day working week . |
| 7 | The Bank has only once been sued for regulatory failure , after it rescued Johnson Matthey Bankers ; the case was settled out of court in 1986 in the Bank 's favour . |
| 8 | There is also evidence of similar disparities in the sentencing practices of comparable Crown Courts in different parts of the country , though attempts to conduct more rigorous investigations of the kind described above have so far been met with judicial opposition and refusal to cooperate ( see Ashworth , 1994 ) . |
| 9 | Quality Circles have received a lot of attention in the media over the last three years but , in general , studies of Circles have so far been limited to subjective analysis by interested parties . |
| 10 | With an intensity comparable to the devastating bombardment of February 21st , the heavy German shells rained down on a French division of mediocre calibre , the 67th , whose experience of this kind of thing had so far been limited to second-hand accounts from across the river . |
| 11 | But teenage mirror-posed strum mastery has so far been hampered by lukewarm , docile ampishness … |
| 12 | The discussion will be brief because much less work has so far been done on acquired dysgraphia than on acquired dyslexia . |
| 13 | If sophisticated strategies such as nominalization have not so far been recognized as viable options in resolving the tension between syntax and communicative function , this does not imply that they are not viable — just that they have been largely overlooked . |
| 14 | Although I have so far been concentrating on Thomist interpretations of existence , there have been equally profound examinations in Buddhist and Moslem tradition , and in the modern day by existentialist writers , some of whom are religious and some of whom are not . |
| 15 | Unexpectedly , however , L289 also reacted with a futehr peak of material that has not so far been identified in antral extracts and that emerged relatively late and did not correspond to one of the LW60 peaks . |
| 16 | Familial adenomatous polyposis ( FAP ) has only recently been shown by clinical and molecular studies to encompass the two conditions formerly known as Gardner syndrome and polyposis coli . |
| 17 | The value of one of the principal recommendations , the provision of psychiatric care to attempted suicide patients , remains controversial , and it has only recently been subjected to controlled evaluation ( Hawton et al. 1987 ) . |
| 18 | This viewpoint has most usually been associated with Marxist sociologists who have questioned the assumption that the working class is a rapidly declining section of the population in capitalist societies . |
| 19 | The passage into law has failed fully to satisfy campaigners who argue that proper parity has still not been won for Scots families . |
| 20 | Nothing so momentous — or dangerous — has ever before been offered by serious parties at a British election . |
| 21 | When the Weimar Republic was founded , the feeling that Germany had once again been suppressed by victorious external powers was very strong : the division of Prussia into East and West , the imposition of reparations ( the economic effects of which Keynes so famously and misguidedly attacked ) and the association of republicanism and parliamentarianism with defeat all fostered the belief that Germany had been stabbed in the back . |
| 22 | The term has also long been associated with powerful aesthetic connotations , with that which is colourfully beguiling , especially in interior decoration and furnishing , and not least in garden ornament . |
| 23 | The truth is that despite the siting of the creamery it has probably not been made with local products for some time . |
| 24 | Sheep netting has now largely been superseded by various forms of electric fencing . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , departmental finding aids , such as docket books , have often not been preserved in central archives . |
| 26 | The White Welsh today has black points , very like the White Park ; this is not surprising as there has been a close connection between the two and White Park bulls have quite often been used on Welsh cows . |
| 27 | If the communication had been sent to the Paternoster Review , it had almost certainly been sent to other papers or journals , possibly to some of the nationals . |
| 28 | Situated as it is approximately one mile from the Hull/ York road , it has grown gradually , and yet not been subjected to heavy traffic apart from distribution and collection purposes . |
| 29 | Moreover , the cultural spheres have not yet fully been separated from external reality as unproblematic assumptions of epistemological and aesthetic realism continue to predominate . |
| 30 | The income level which one needed to qualify to receive part of this tithe is unclear and would have most likely been decided by Levitical administration based on custom . |