Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tools of this kind have long been available in the industry . |
| 2 | This technique has probably been responsible for scoring more points than any other in the entire history of karate competition . |
| 3 | If this scepticism has often been well-based , an all-encompassing and undiscriminating scepticism is absurd . |
| 4 | ‘ We have reason to believe , ’ said the sergeant , taking no notice of the question , ‘ that this boat has recently been involved in illegal traffic , and that the said operation was centred on the island of Faarsay . ’ |
| 5 | Nevertheless it must be realised that the energy we now devote to curriculum content has tended to overshadow and obliterate the debate about curriculum delivery with which this chapter has also been concerned . |
| 6 | This work has also been significant in shaping the thinking of contemporary sociologists of the family ( Harris , 1983 , pp. 127–30 ) . |
| 7 | This process had already been invaluable to industry and proved to be so for penicillin . |
| 8 | For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 9 | And this eagle had never been one of the easy ones . |
| 10 | This procedure has indeed been successful . |
| 11 | Now this woman had always been aware of the as a child , she had always known it , it had n't be unconscious in the sense she 'd forgotten it , but it had been isolated , it has been given a new name , and ca unfortunately I ca n't remember what it was , but it was , it was completely er innocuous , the name was the term she used was totally innocuous . |
| 12 | There will always be arguments about whether that amount is sufficient , but the amount provided by this Government has always been insufficient . |
| 13 | This approach has recently been subject to an effective critique by Forty ( 1986 ) , who points out that designers have always been handmaidens to the business interests they serve , and to separate them out as self-determined arbiters of cultural form is even less convincing than in the case of high art which strives for such autonomy . |
| 14 | Teacher trainers have also been greatly encouraged by the obvious interest and commitment of students to children with special needs ; optional and elective courses on this subject have always been over-subscribed . |
| 15 | This silence had long been intolerable when Jim broke it , saying to Jake Endo , ‘ Uh , how did ‘ Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree , Which Stands Near the Lake of Easthwaite , on a Desolate Part of the Shore , Commanding a Beautiful Prospect ’ do ? ’ |
| 16 | It was familiar to many of his fellow- countrymen because another version had earlier been Japanese-owned , but had sadly been destroyed during the war . |
| 17 | This year has also been notable for a number of major contracts world wide . |
| 18 | Situated right in the centre of the village this hotel has always been popular with British holidaymakers . |
| 19 | As a result of improved communications in every sense — be they electronic communications , our airports or any other form of communication — the regions of this country have never been closer to London than they are today . |
| 20 | Until recently , it was the Revenue 's view that group relief was not available between the vendor and Target in respect of the accounting period during which the acquisition of Target occurred or during which " arrangements " for the disposal of Target came into existence , though the basis for this view has always been unclear . |
| 21 | This fact has always been true , but is even more apparent in the modern era . |
| 22 | ‘ This family has always been poor , but they were not slaves , ’ the old woman almost shouted , snatching back the photograph as if Martha 's impious fingers would stain it . |
| 23 | The case for taking this step has long been powerful , and is now overwhelming . |
| 24 | Such thinking has generally been wrong on every count . |
| 25 | ‘ That price has always been extreme vigilance , ’ the QC said . |
| 26 | But whereas this in all probability had previously been secret lore imparted through oral tradition , with Evan it was willingly shared and brought into the public domain . |
| 27 | Writers like Saunders ( 1984 , 1986 ) have pointed out the problems of structuralism , but in their own work have often been guilty of endorsing profoundly capital logic accounts of social process . |
| 28 | Especially when my own husband has only been dead for just over a week . |
| 29 | Although closely linked with the marathon racing side , he has only done a couple of races and his own paddling has mostly been recreational . |
| 30 | They 'd snapped at one another before — more often than not , Melissa recalled , over the involvement of one with a man considered unsuitable by the other — but any irritation had always been short-lived and apologies barely necessary . |