Example sentences of "has [been] [verb] [prep] a very " in BNC.

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1 The as I said this , this is required for identification for the organism , but the to the toxin has been recognised for a very , very long time and right from er , the early days the possibility of inactivating the biological properties of a toxin while retaining their immunological properties has been attractive to people seeking to prevent these diseases .
2 I welcome this book on two major counts : first , because it succeeds in what should be the aim of every author , that is to educate and entertain , and secondly because it has been written by a very knowledgeable person who genuinely cares for his dogs , has bred a consistent type for many years and has put as much into the ‘ dog game ’ as he has taken out .
3 Now the estate is in the hands of Dr Douglas Wise and Coldingham Loch has been developed into a very attractive fishery .
4 ‘ This has been done in a very formal and proper way . ’
5 An interview with this adviser subsequently confirmed that the self-appraisal was not accorded great importance : ‘ On the role of the self-appraisal , it seems to me that the whole thing has been made into a very big deal and ought not to be .
6 It has been a traumatic time for everyone at Burston during the past year or so and a great deal has been achieved over a very short time .
7 A contrary point of view has been maintained in a very popular socio-linguistic theory which has had considerable recent currency .
8 Our knowledge of the identification and distribution of stone axes in Britain has been gained from a very long-running co-operative research effort involving archaeologists and petrologists : over the last fifty years more than 7500 axes have been examined petrologically .
9 RIGHT The evidence from the site and the excavation itself has been reconstructed in a very vivid way at the Jorvik Viking centre , and is a very popular attraction for visitors from all over the world .
10 Director of Education , Keith Mitchell told the county council 's schools sub-committee that funding for six new nurseries has been preserved despite a very difficult financial year .
11 Evolutionary geomorphology has been used with a very different connotation by Thornes ( 1983b ) and this is introduced in chapter 8 ( p. 182 ) .
12 In Colombia , Trichoplusia ni NPV has been used on a very large scale against T. ni larvae on cotton .
13 This odd reversal of polygyny has been attributed to a very high rate of ground predation whereby clutches are easily lost .
14 At least two separate groups of birds do it , and it has been carried to a very high level of sophistication by dolphins and whales .
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