Example sentences of "have been [verb] very [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transient absorption spectroscopy using femtosecond pulses has been applied very successfully to the photodissociation and predissociation of ICN and NaC1 . |
| 2 | This guidance has been given very simply through your own voice which talks to you , admonishes , guides , cajoles , takes away your fears , explains and , with infinite care and tenderness , dedicates itself to your daily encounters with life . |
| 3 | On the tricky fact that some passengers have more money than others ( and Mr Pannick 's taxi has been stopped very frequently by the government in recent years ; he has had a special sign on it since 1988 that says ‘ Junior council to the Crown , common law ’ ) , the author declares that the authorities ‘ must make expenditre reon legal aid a high priority and that the defects in the structure of legal aid are in need of urgent repair ’ . |
| 4 | That this can not be assumed of language , which appears to serve just such a purpose , has been illustrated very clearly by the linguist Lehrer in an analysis of the language used in the description of wines . |
| 5 | ‘ I feel local justice has been dispensed very successfully over the centuries but we are now increasingly facing the prospect , due entirely in my view to financial pressures , of seeing the closure of many local courts and everything being centralised elsewhere . |
| 6 | That question has been answered very fully by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland and by other Ministers , and there is nothing that I want to add . |
| 7 | The Clio has been contrasted very favourably to all class rivals in both objective and subjective comparisons . |
| 8 | Such established techniques included the analysis of varves in lake deposits indicating an annual or seasonal rhythm , used since the pioneer work of de Geer in Sweden in 1912 ; analysis of tree rings when dendrochronology has been linked very convincingly to climate ; relative dating of landforms ; and palynology and other types of micro-fossil analysis including non-marine mollusca . |
| 9 | ‘ At this juncture , I am unable to comment further on Newman 's assertions , but I can reveal that Hide 's name has been linked very seriously with Bowe , ’ he admitted . |
| 10 | The book has been produced very quickly after the conference and the editors and publishers should be congratulated . |
| 11 | Robert Rendel began by saying that the library has been doing very well during recent years and that the usage by our members of the library facilities had increased despite falling membership . |
| 12 | One program , AUTOFRACTIONS ( see reference 3 ) , that has been used very successfully in the classroom produces large fractions on the screen in the format 4/15 = ? /60 , with the ? appearing in one of the four positions each time . |
| 13 | Volcanic eruptions are sometimes compared with the drama , colour and spectacle of Wagner 's operas — the ‘ Ride of the Valkyries ’ has been used very effectively as the background music to a film of some particularly lurid eruptions . |
| 14 | The only reason I can suggest for this is that they may have ‘ member get member fatigue ’ ; ie it has been used very often in the past and now sees diminishing returns . |
| 15 | ‘ Tactesse ’ appeared 18 months ago and ICI Fibres has been working very closely with leading manufacturers , particularly at its development centre at Oestringen , West Germany , to establish new ranges across Europe and in the USA . |
| 16 | The case for self-validation for the polytechnics has been put very forcibly by Dr Birch , the present chairman of the CDP . |
| 17 | He has only been a reserve for Wales all season , although I believe he has been playing very well for his club . |
| 18 | Jessamy knew her words were cruel , but she felt as if she had been pushed very near to her limit . |
| 19 | The latter had been widowed very early in life — her husband Ernest , a member of a footballing family had played for Salisbury City , then Southampton as a professional goalkeeper . |
| 20 | A spokesman for the county council said : ‘ Before that unfortunate incident it had been working very successfully for several hours . |
| 21 | I 've been looking very carefully at the door this afternoon . |
| 22 | ‘ You know , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been thinking very hard about what you did with that glass . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been working very hard on it , ’ was all I managed to say . |
| 24 | It appears that these penalties have been based very much on the default surcharge , but thankfully the level of penalty does appear to be significantly lower , though the period of penalty is much longer . |
| 25 | We have created a considerable number of new jobs in south Norfolk ; regrettably , some of these were at the expense of people affected by the closure of the Ipswich site , but nevertheless , such opportunities in a rural environment have been viewed very positively by the local community . |
| 26 | The law firms within it have been competing very strongly with each other , there are six extremely good law firms in Leeds and their I think that that experience in competition over the last few years will stand them in very good stead . |
| 27 | So what we are aiming to do is to set up more joint projects , like the one on financial instruments , where we have been working very closely with Canada . |
| 28 | ‘ This is Anadarko 's first venture in the international scene and we have been working very closely with them , ’ Stephen commented . |
| 29 | Riding a bike is a suitable analogy : if you have been pedalling very hard for a while you can stop pedalling and freewheel for a short distance without losing any speed . |
| 30 | Audio recordings have been used very successfully for this purpose . |