Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] been [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The London theatres , which had for so long been a particular thorn in the side of Puritan moralists such as William Prynne , were closed down at the outbreak of the civil war and remained shut until the Restoration . |
| 2 | What then are the implications for sectors of traditional activity where books , journals and newspapers have for so long been the unwavering mainstays ? |
| 3 | The road had for so long been the only goal that I 'd given no thought to anything beyond . |
| 4 | 1993 has so far been a good year for Hewlett-Packard Russia . |
| 5 | The 1993 winter sale , which ends on 30th January , has so far been a major disappointment : fewer than 290 booksellers have taken part , significantly down on previous years . |
| 6 | In spite of promising prospects for the future , it has so far been a complementary course , to be undertaken in addition to the main course of study . |
| 7 | The infrastructure of teaching hospitals is largely NHS ( rather than university ) funded and there has only recently been a welcome extension of this mechanism to general practice . |
| 8 | Far from being the concrete , it has always rather been the theoretical problem . |
| 9 | THE CAUSE hamper campaign this Christmas has once again been a great success , thanks to the generosity of so many people in our diocese . |
| 10 | Local government , with its responsibility for sweeping the streets and emptying dustbins , had always essentially been a humdrum business . |
| 11 | It had also long been a great source of amusement to the more belligerent regulars as they watched the uninitiated stumble in and sit down . |
| 12 | There has traditionally always been an inverse relationship between the power of a tool and how easy it is to operate . |
| 13 | The family has probably always been a major source of violence — consider the wealth of folk stories and songs that deal with cruel sisters , feuding brothers , and infanticide — but now the violence may be more hidden , less open to immediate social control from the wider community , at least until it is too late . |
| 14 | said there had probably never been a better time than now for a private company or public body to carry out a property audit . |
| 15 | ‘ Has there ever been a special guy in your life ? ’ |
| 16 | But has there ever been a happier compromise than the one offered in New York ? |
| 17 | ‘ Has there ever been an ecumenical Council ’ , he asks , ‘ which was not a way of self-renewal through an encounter with the Risen Jesus , the glorious and immortal King , whose light illumines the whole Church for the salvation , joy and glory of all peoples ? ’ |
| 18 | Has there even been a better start to the season ? |
| 19 | Only within the last 20 to 25 years has there even been an identifiable cohort of ageing disabled adults ; first , life expectancy for many types of impairments prior to this was low ; second , people who became disabled as a result of injuries received during the Second World War are now entering older age ; third , many children and young adults disabled as a result of the polio epidemics of the late 1940s and early 1950s are now in their 50s or older . |
| 20 | Mompesson , whose wife was among those to succumb , wrote that Eyam had become ‘ a Golgotha — a place of skulls ; and had there no been a small remnant of us left , we had been as Sodom and Gomorrah . |
| 21 | Immediate cash profit has far too long been the overriding aim : it has warped the genuine economy and forced farmers to consider every move in the context of ‘ How soon will it pay ? ’ |
| 22 | One reason might be that androgyny typically envisages a unity ostensibly beyond sexual difference , but in fact inseparable from it ; androgyny especially has too often been a genderless transcendent which leaves sexual difference in place . |
| 23 | There had been publicity for occasional outbursts of violence and bad language or for shocking displays of sexuality , but there had never really been a significant breakthrough in terms of outspoken social statement . |