Example sentences of "has been [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed . |
| 2 | The decision was communicated to our staff late in 1992 and I am pleased to say that the wind-down has been handled as efficiently as could be wished . |
| 3 | The text has been cut quite wantonly and only for expediency , you feel . |
| 4 | Some of these matters clearly fall within the ‘ good neighbour ’ concept , ’ while others are based on the principle that compensation is not to be paid merely because maximum exploitation has been prevented so long as development of a reasonably remunerative character is allowed . |
| 5 | Is it a sort of bonus approval for something that has been done particularly well or approval for an ordinary job well done ? |
| 6 | M my view about this is that it 's it it is it is that this exercise is that it is er something which has been done very quickly and to my mind is not capable of providing the level of assessment that would be required . |
| 7 | HWIM , Hearsay-II , and HARPY , examples of the Symbol Processing paradigm , can construct representations of the processing that has been done so far and operate on the individual hypotheses within that space . |
| 8 | Additional hardware and software has been obtained recently so that additional staff can use DTP facilities , and to provide backup services . |
| 9 | In 1948 , Francis Rogallo and his wife Gertrude were granted their patent for the flexible kite that has been credited so often as the origin of the ‘ modern ’ species . |
| 10 | The exclusion of the courts It has been argued so far that the methods of control and accountability introduced by the 1985 Act leave much to be desired . |
| 11 | It may be that in New South Wales , Category 3 , which carries the seven-year penalty , has been constructed too broadly and that some conduct which it covers should have been placed within the more serious categories . |
| 12 | This time around , the computerisation curve has flattened out , so the electronics industry has been hit as hard as any . |
| 13 | Plainly , there was no such feature in the building prior to its conversion , but its insertion has been undertaken so carefully and with such sensitivity towards the simple , almost primitive shapes and textures of the original interior that it looks like a perfectly natural element . |
| 14 | It is , of course , impossible to foresee the future , but the effective demise of the Catholic Church has been prophesied so often that it seems wiser to conclude that the vast movement of transformation begun by Vatican II will not be easily ended either internally or externally . |
| 15 | In my opinion she has been created very well and nobody dares to cross her path or they end up being executed . |
| 16 | A world where every Western youth culture since the dawn of teenage has been assimilated so completely that Tokyo has become a sociological Disneyland . |
| 17 | If Richard Herrnstein ( ’ IQ encounters with the press ’ , 28 April , p 230 ) has been treated as shabbily as he says by American newspapers , that is unforgivable . |
| 18 | So although no route can more truly be called a " beaten track " than the one which heads for the Gotthard Pass , now that the old Gotthard road has been supplanted so far as through traffic is concerned by the Basel-Chiasso motor expressway ( E9 , N2 ) , many towns and villages on the old road can be rated as " off the beaten track " . |
| 19 | This prescriptive approach has been repeated as recently as October 1988 , when the director of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools in Northern Ireland said that people who sent their children to integrated schools rather than catholic ones were breaking the law of the church . |
| 20 | Autumn arrival has been noted as early as 10 July , but usually starts in late October , and passage has been noted in November . |
| 21 | The report has been structured both thematically and sequentially . |
| 22 | There 's nothing worse than learning that an act has been signed somewhere else and you never even got a chance to hear them . |
| 23 | There 's nothing worse than learning that an act has been signed somewhere else and you never even got a chance to hear them |
| 24 | We have actually four questions and three subordinate questions which we were addressing and only one of them has been resolved so far and that is whether the Chairman of the Police Authority should be appointed by the Home Secretary or by the Authority and we are I think all have to agree that it should be by the latter . |
| 25 | Some of that deal has been produced as far as the Tornado 's concerned , but again you 're quite right we 're waiting for the announcement of the er orders for the trains . |
| 26 | Since the opening of the power station , Torness Harbour has been used only rarely but offers the best permanent , deep-water facility on the south-east coast between Leith and the Border . |
| 27 | In this book we will be using the ‘ C-word ’ in these senses to refer to the present penal situation in England and Wales , albeit with slight embarrassment and the worry that it has been used so often and for so long that there is a danger that it may be losing its dramatic impact . |
| 28 | The general argument of this book is that the idea of higher education has been undermined both philosophically and sociologically . |
| 29 | Similarly , the notion of fostering a local enterprise culture has been suggested both inside and outside Parliament ( Trippier , 1989 ) as a potential source of urban renewal and in Britain is officially inscribed as a goal of all Inner City Task Forces . |
| 30 | It has been suggested so far that many academic lawyers and policemen share the view that where a woman has sexual intercourse with a man , she should be regarded in law as having consented to it save in exceptional circumstances as where violence or the threat of it is used . |