Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [vb pp] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disturbance in immunoregulatory control has long been suspected to play a major role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 2 | Mrs Popple had long been known to have a short temper . |
| 3 | Ramprakash has long been known to have a short fuse but after a year in the England set-up , it was to be hoped he had matured . |
| 4 | I had finally been forced to apply a large pad of cotton wool held in place with an enormous length of three-inch bandage . |
| 5 | It had already been proposed to institute a new RHA funding policy by which the budgets of the long-stay hospitals were to be distributed between the district authorities served by them . |
| 6 | ( These scores may be somewhat higher than normal as , before joining the study , some patients had already been encouraged to take a high fibre intake . ) |
| 7 | In Por Tanssie , the vibrancers had always been instructed to keep a certain distance between them . |
| 8 | Englishmen had been settling overseas for a century and a half but their colonies had been inhabited by people who , apart from the slaves who got no choice in the matter , had no particular difficulty in committing themselves to being loyal to King George : Englishmen , Scotsmen , Irishmen , or Germans would accept the King without question , and the Dutch of New York and the Acadians of Nova Scotia were almost the only people who had ever been asked to make a serious change of allegiance , which had been harder for the Acadians because of religious differences . |
| 9 | Every heresy and man-made religion that has ever been invented presents a fractured picture of Jesus Christ . |
| 10 | Indeed , this event was the first of several that has enabled Keith to use his knowledge of Russian as he has also been asked to write a short speech for a Coopers and Lybrand partner in Sheffield and subsequently coach him with his delivery skills . |
| 11 | Intermedia have also been appointed to handle a year-long publicity programme for Farnham Museum , covering renovation work and the relaunch of the museum in the autumn . |
| 12 | In modern China an attempt has also been made to create a national art , in this instance by partly discrediting tradition . |
| 13 | An extra-statutory concession has also been published to give a similar relief to insurance companies for contributions paid under a levy imposed by The Lautro ( Compensation Schemes ) No 2 Rules 1991 . |
| 14 | Calmodulin affinity chromatography has also been used to purify a related 63K/240K channel complex from pig and rat ROS membranes . |
| 15 | British education systems as much as most have traditionally been used to inculcate a single concept of mainstream culture and to allocate young people to the occupational market on the basis of their receptivity to that culture and willingness to mirror values , language and behaviour ( Lynch 1981 ) . |
| 16 | Estimates have now been obtained to install a closed circuit television system . |
| 17 | Estimates have now been obtained to install a closed circuit television system in both the Myles Meehan and the Long Gallery . |
| 18 | It has now been agreed to introduce a four-year course in Physics ( alongside the three-year course ) with effect from October 1993 . |
| 19 | Ochirbat had originally been scheduled to pay a six-day visit , but he returned early to take part in the critical discussions with opposition leaders on Mongolia 's future political system . |
| 20 | Our courts have not yet been forced to give a direct ruling on this matter . |
| 21 | A mind like hers had never been trained to encompass a vast concept or to accommodate any larger vision than what she could see with half-closed eyes . |
| 22 | It should be noted , however , that a positive effect has never been found to produce a single word , far less a complete utterance , the usual effect being a sustained or interrupted cry . |
| 23 | Miranda 's ten-man board of directors had recently been expanded to include a new chairman , the Earl of Brighton , and Frederick Swanson of Seligman Swanson , the merchant bank chosen to handle the SUPPLYKITS flotation . |
| 24 | We have found , using this assay , that all optimized CTL epitopes for other class I molecules ( HLA-A2 , D b and K b ) have bound with high affinity , and the assay has recently been used to identify a HIV-gag CTL epitope in mice by screening of potential epitopes fitting the D b motif . |
| 25 | This house has recently been refurbished to show a broad spectrum of animals without backbones , correctly called invertebrates . |
| 26 | My own experience , on the rare occasions when I have actually been asked to produce a short story with my mind totally blank , is that one can tune oneself like the strings of a wind-harp by admitting to one 's mind the desire to write a story and that in that state of receptivity even the oddest , most trivial circumstances will produce a basic idea . |