Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than one year 's delay in reporting the symptom to the family doctor has been recorded in over half of cases , the main reasons for this being the hope that it will go away and embarrassment in talking to the doctor about it . |
| 2 | Darby 's conviction , after a six-week trial , was the first of its kind and Mr David Mellor , the Home Office Minister , said last night : ‘ I am glad it has been demonstrated so clearly that luring youngsters into the crime of drug pushing carries with it a severe penalty . |
| 3 | they would allow me half now erm I 've been looking at one particular church , one denomination er , which is the Methodist Church , although it has been said already here this afternoon , or this morning rather there are an overall erm joint style with Methodist and with United Reform Church and erm I have personally the Methodist of last year , last September where it gives and also erm , mileage recommendations . |
| 4 | It follows from what has been said so far that , as stable norms can be observed through analysis of linguistic patterns , change in progress will show up as violations of the expected ‘ normal ’ patterns . |
| 5 | ‘ This technology means that community groups and local people are able to find out much more about an issue and how it has been tackled elsewhere much more than they ever were in the past . |
| 6 | Christian thinking has been affected not so much by specific doubts as by the general concept of doubting which is entertained today . |
| 7 | International interest in Manchester 's system has been created not so much by the hardware as by the partnership involved between the public and private sector — the Greater Manchester Metro consortium includes GEC-Alsthom Transportation Projects , Mowlem , Amec , Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive and Greater Manchester Buses . |
| 8 | The most obvious result of such ‘ cuts ’ has been to affect most adversely those without any other pension provision , and has led to an increase in the numbers claiming means-tested support . |
| 9 | Costs are set against an annual Library estimate , currently totalling £500 , of which some £285 has been spent so far this year . |
| 10 | But lately he has been losing rather too many important matches . |
| 11 | Mr Clarke has been indulging in just that himself , putting up the luckless Duncan Nichol , chief executive of the health service , to take the initial flak under the pretence that the dispute is not his direct responsibility . |
| 12 | " It has been established fairly convincingly that marital success is associated with a correspondingly high level of happiness in the parents and the absence of divorce and separation in their marriages , " writes Dr Jack Dominian . |
| 13 | For them the time must have flown by , but for me it seemed as if I 'd been standing out there all morning ! |
| 14 | Everyone said I looked worn out and must have been gadding about too much ! |
| 15 | Anyway , all the other young men were away at the war , Gustav must have been spending just about all his time indoors , young love wove its spell and … ‘ ow 's yer father ? ’ |
| 16 | Significantly , the key decisions in containing these disturbances were afterwards said to have been made not so much by the Shah as by his prime minister , Assadollah Alam , vital figure in the development of Iran in the sixties and seventies . |
| 17 | Once he had told her , in a mood of taunting cruelty that sometimes overtook him , that he had been saving up quietly all these years , enough money " to be rid of you for ever " . |
| 18 | When Ven drew up outside her hotel , Fabia went on to realise just how kind he had been to give up so much of his time . |
| 19 | An angry Queen Victoria , however , felt it had been lifted far too much , particularly over the clashes between Palmerston as foreign secretary and the prince consort . |
| 20 | IF CORPORATE governance and the virtues or vices of free financial markets had been agonised over as much in 1985 as they are now , continental Europe would have ruined many of the most popular and simplistic conclusions . |
| 21 | ‘ This had been going on almost all the time since yesterday , with two German counter attacks on our positions . ’ |
| 22 | Everything had been going so well this time ; leaving Glasgow on Saturday anticipation had been high , Amanda had even been waiting for him on the pavement outside her flat . |
| 23 | I 've been holding back again this passion . |
| 24 | But , by and large , and Wanda was an exception , all the things in life that I 've most enjoyed have been the things that I 've been paid really very little for , and most of the things that I 've been paid most for have been the least interesting . |
| 25 | But you 've been working too hard this past while . |
| 26 | It might be my fault , perhaps I 've been rushing around too much cos that affects your milk supply of course . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been noticing how very much roof you have , ’ she said to my mother . |
| 28 | Now doubts have been raised over how much local authorities can rely on these payments to continue indefinitely |
| 29 | A hundred thousand homes have been repossessed so far this year . |
| 30 | It would not be practical to attempt to list all the fund raising activities that have been undertaken so far this year but I would like to pick out some highlights for you . |