Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | of which Orwell had derisively remarked in ‘ Inside the Whale ’ ( 1940 ) that it could only have been written by an innocent for whom murder is at most a word . |
| 2 | As it had been used after employment it could only have been protected by an express term . |
| 3 | In a pool of 30 WFS countries ( see Table 10 ) , the mortality of infants born less than 24 months after the preceding birth was found to be 80 per cent higher than that of infants fortunate enough to have been born after an interval of 24 to 47 months . |
| 4 | Such considerations in relation to temperature alone have been considered in an earlier section . |
| 5 | Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit . |
| 6 | In truth , her performance in winning at Edgbaston probably told us far more about how she is likely to make out when she tees up as a professional than could ever have been gauged from an isolated week among those playing for pay . |
| 7 | I would not forsake ye , I would not forsake you for sweetest of scenes : For sweetest of gardens that nature could make me I would not forsake ye , dear valleys and greens : Tho' Nature ne'er dropped ye a cloud-resting mountain , Nor waterfalls tumble their music so free , Had Nature denied ye a bush , tree , or fountain , Ye still had been loved as an Eden by me . |
| 8 | Current release Howard 's End , in which he plays an evil father , also has been nominated for an Oscar . |
| 9 | The Soviet initiative on the Gulf may also have been conceived as an inducement for the key countries of the Persian Gulf and the Arab world to take measures to limit Western military involvement in the region . |
| 10 | Liver biopsy showed a predominantly T cell mononuclear cell infiltrate and although the possibility of lymphoma was raised it was considered that this may also have been caused by an inflammatory process . |
| 11 | Kiraly had been sitting as an independent member of the Országgyülés ( National Assembly ) , having first been elected in 1985 as a radical member of the then ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) . |
| 12 | Indeed a mallow was illustrated in a famous herbal of the 6th century A.D. , and it may well have been derived from an even earlier Greek herbal of the 2nd century B.C. |
| 13 | Rather than being sustained by a vibrant , developing , experimental tradition , the revolutions of modernism may simply have been absorbed by an engrained , infrangible , realist tradition which rarely does more than appropriate a few of the more alluring additions Joyce and others made to ‘ the international store of literary technique ’ . |
| 14 | Notions of cultural deficits frequently have been replaced by an emphasis upon differences with apparently no pejorative connotations . |
| 15 | He is quite brazenly staging a public spectacle — a spectacle for which he knew he would either have been stigmatised as an upstart and a blasphemer , or acknowledged as precisely what he claimed to be . |
| 16 | , The largest flying boat in the world only made one flight ( of about a mile in length at a height of about eighty feet ) , and until recently has been preserved within an aluminium-dome museum , close to the Queen Mary in Long Beach , California . |
| 17 | Even dressed as he now was , in a blue cotton jacket and trousers , he could never have been taken for an Italian , and since he was n't able to walk — he could only hop on one leg — or speak the language , he was hardly likely to remain free for long out in the open . |