Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a huge margin of victory has rarely been seen in a tournament of this class . |
| 2 | Indeed , the permanent absence of humans has rarely been cited as a condition . |
| 3 | This experimental solution has since been confirmed by a purely mathematical analysis carried out by H. L. Cox . |
| 4 | These views reflect what has since been recognized as a ‘ prevailing ideology ’ in ‘ the British literary-journalistic establishment ’ of the 1950s — — in which Snow 's influence as a reviewer played a considerable part . |
| 5 | After his death in March 1984 , the armed forces seized power and the country has since been ruled by a Military Committee for National Recovery under the leadership of Brig. -Gen. ( now Maj.-Gen. ) |
| 6 | After his death in March 1984 the armed forces seized power and the country has since been ruled by a Military Committee for National Recovery ( CMRN ) . |
| 7 | The threat has since been withdrawn in a statement issued to the local Press . |
| 8 | The weatherboarded top was originally supported by the timber trestle , which has since been enclosed within a brick roundhouse . |
| 9 | Staffing was included , though a ratio of 50:50 between expenditure on salaries and materials , thought to be reasonable at that time , has since been distorted by a much greater proportion of expenditure going to staffing . |
| 10 | This has since been complemented by a Co-op super-store with 40 000 sq . |
| 11 | The systems approach has necessarily been identified with a positivist approach and as such has been less resilient in human ( Johnston , 1983a ) than in physical geography . |
| 12 | Now and again , of course , you have to deal with the awkward moments , like someone reading aloud from a Sunday paper the ‘ sordid story of perverted vice ’ which has obviously been concocted over a few jars by a hack hounded by deadline . |
| 13 | The recovery of the gorilla population from 260 in the 1970s to today 's figure of 320 has hitherto been hailed as a conservation miracle . |
| 14 | It has all been organised by a group of venture Scouts from Abingdon in Oxfordshire . |
| 15 | Legal theory has long been bedevilled by a sterile debate between positivists and natural lawyers . |
| 16 | Physical beauty has long been seen as a reflection of God 's presence in the world ; mystical texts describe the divine beauty to be found in creation as the female spirit , the bride and the beloved . |
| 17 | Monetary union has long been seen as a way of bringing about greater economic and political unity within the Community . |
| 18 | THE NEED FOR the majority of county cricketers to cobble together alternative employment for themselves for half the year has long been seen as a compromise on the professionalism of the game . |
| 19 | ICI , for all the apparent successes of the 1980s , has long been perceived as a lumbering , bureaucratic conglomerate , in which winners subsidise losers . |
| 20 | Provoked killings are generally thought to be less heinous than unprovoked killings , and provocation has long been accepted as a ground for reducing to manslaughter a killing which would otherwise fulfil the definition of murder . |
| 21 | Ultraviolet light has long been accepted as a provocative factor for herpes of the face and lips and many people find that their annual attack coincides with their visit to Majorca or trip to the ski slopes . |
| 22 | The idea that monetary policy can be used to fine-tune the real economy has long been exposed as a myth . |
| 23 | The Bible has long been recognized as a composite work spanning many centuries , not some kind of monolithic whole , and whilst opinions differ widely as to the precise dating ( and methods of dating ) of its constituent parts , it remains the case that a book , or indeed a chapter , may lie in the received text next to a verse or chapter some several centuries removed in compositional/redactional terms from its neighbour . |
| 24 | Accessibility has long been recognized as a ‘ slippery notion ’ . |
| 25 | Hepatitis B was formerly referred to as ‘ serum hepatitis ’ because percutaneous exposure to contaminated blood has long been recognized as a major mode of transmission ; and cases of hepatitis B from blood transfusion , needlesticks , and sharing contaminated needles among drug abusers have been well documented . |
| 26 | The University of San Carlos has long been regarded as a hotbed of opposition , and the list of those imprisoned , tortured and murdered is long , even since 1986 . |
| 27 | The British countryside has long been regarded as a source of out-migration and a pool of reserve labour for urban areas . |
| 28 | In Britain , with its strong two-party system , a government defeat on a vote of confidence has long been regarded as a theoretical possibility rather than practical politics . |
| 29 | Second , income tax has long been regarded as a tax of central importance in government management of the economy ; it is a major financial and psychological weapon in securing the success of the Cabinet 's economic strategy . |
| 30 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |