Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It is a revolution more obviously compared with the French than with any other revolution because of its stages of progression , even though it has so far been peaceful despite the anger . |
2 | The antagonists , all equally concerned about the incomparable danger , included Michael Foot , who is at least consistent , David Steel , whose reasonable approach to all matters has so far been unimpeded by office . |
3 | Although some bizarre interchanges therefore seem to be real occurrences in these families , the research has so far been unable to convincingly demonstrate a causal link between such communication abnormalities and the development of schizophrenia in the child . |
4 | The government has so far been equivocal about the resources to be made available , but it is significant that the Griffiths proposal for a specific grant has been rejected , except in the case of the mentally ill . |
5 | There is no reason to suppose that the Russians are seeking trouble and the same has so far been true of the East Germans . |
6 | But committee members are clear about one thing : the DoH has often not been helpful in clarifying the situation for local authorities . |
7 | DEC is likely to add an open application programming interface to ACMS , which has previously only been available on VMS-based server platforms . |
8 | It has however always been fraught with difficulty ; the line between legality and correctness has always been hard to define . |
9 | Not the least of our criticisms of the Government 's approach relates to the Cardiff Bay development corporation , which is unelected and unaccountable and has too often been insensitive to the concerns of local communities . |
10 | While the birth of the new unit was intimated in a document dealing with educational disadvantage and the educational needs of immigrants , the work of the unit has very clearly been concerned with the more general question of standards of achievement in schools . |
11 | She 'd never really been interested in boys , or going out much . |
12 | ‘ I 've only ever been interested in one woman . ’ |
13 | The fields surrounding the churchyard had long ago been relieved from private ownership and lumped together into one huge collective farm . |
14 | France had thus far been alone in urging firm timetables . |
15 | But then , she thought acidly , he had probably never been young in his life ; some people were like that . |
16 | She knew that she had never been an intellectual , but she thought that she had probably once been capable of insight . |
17 | Déby had also reportedly been critical of Maldom Bada 's negotiation of an accord between Chad and Libya signed in Tripoli on Sept. 5 . |
18 | Though he had gone through the motions of caring she saw now with the painful wisdom of hindsight that , despite all his assurances of love and respect for her , he had really only been interested in his own pleasure , pursuing it with all the subtlety of a bulldozer . |
19 | So Edwin Garland had almost certainly been incapable of fathering a child . |
20 | Forgiveness of government-to-government debt had previously only been available to the poorest countries , concentrated mainly in Africa , whereas Egypt and Poland were both defined as middle-income debtors . |
21 | One of the problems in your case is , we 've never really been able to Cos i i When we when we 've examined you from time to time , things come and gone . |
22 | To me that 's really annoying because all you do is destroy your song and you turn it into a guitarist 's track and I 've never really been interested in that . |
23 | But it had fallen mostly into desuetude in mid-nineteenth-century Europe and it had certainly not been evident in France during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |
24 | By the time of Anselm 's death , therefore , the whole Church of Wales , which had never before been subject to Canterbury , was completely subordinated to the English primate . |
25 | He had never before been able to be quite so frank with anyone about his innermost feelings . |
26 | Old-style Eighties ' computers , sold with high margin and short lifespan , have long ago been cost-depreciated to zero by corporations . |
27 | All of this is , is just good as well as bits of gold and er and , and you know metal objects , that have always traditionally been interesting to archaeologists . |
28 | We have probably often been guilty of viewing censorship as something that must be imposed from time to time . |
29 | In the very depressed mortgage market , the commercials have clearly also been successful in terms of raising public awareness of the Royal Bank as a provider for their next mortgage . |
30 | Two of them have primarily only been available as a single video " Race to the Stars , " but by popular request are now available as individual programmes . |