Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The regional officers also wrote to the Chilean authorities calling for the prompt introduction of legislation which will give official licenses to the many community radio and TV stations that hitherto have been operating under severe restrictions . |
| 2 | We must not delude ourselves that when we paternalistically include certain Third World artists who hitherto have been excluded from our magazines , galleries and museums , we are correcting our culture . |
| 3 | The occurrences of the records linked together have been represented by pointers . |
| 4 | The largest gathering away from Chichester Harbour appears to be of 19 at Rye Harbour in February 1968 and up to 13 together have been seen on inland waters , although single birds and parties of up to five are most usual . |
| 5 | Single birds are usually seen , but two or three together have been recorded several times , and a party of five flew west off Langney Point on 17 October 1947 , and one of 20 did likewise on 1 September 1964 . |
| 6 | Even bigger claws half-a-metre long have been found . |
| 7 | From London to Glasgow , from Cardiff to Newcastle , historic buildings have been restored and areas which had been run down have been transformed . |
| 8 | Such a view would be wrong because many of the points of critique that we have just set down have been backed up by solid research into the concrete world of interests and groups . |
| 9 | Any temptations to quit the area and start afresh have been left behind . |
| 10 | I understand that other roads built up on one side only have been granted 30 mph speed limits . |
| 11 | Unfortunately many were trade union members who lost their jobs and have not retained their union membership so have been lost to our organization . |
| 12 | Next Saturday my Medau friend Camilla and I are each going to swim 100 lengths non-stop ( as the ‘ Medau Duo ’ ) in the national charity swimming marathon ( as you might guess , it 's called a ‘ swimathon ’ ) , so have been collecting sponsors , which is rather more arduous than doing the actual swimming . |
| 13 | Ninety-two elements exist in nature and another dozen or so have been made by nuclear physicists . |
| 14 | The unions had already endured the Conservative Government 's policy of granting individual rights , thus increasingly undermining collective power ; the range of actions that trade union members can take has been increased , and the procedures for doing so have been simplified , for example , by some new actions being justiciable in Industrial Tribunals , or by referring the matter to the Certification Officer . |
| 15 | The answer is that it does , and that the justifications for doing so have been set out above — not so much because rape is a serious offence , but rather because ascertainment of the facts is so easy that there should be little substantive unfairness to defendants . |
| 16 | ‘ Young people who were homeless or likely to become so have been helped , but … it is more difficult to help those sleeping rough , ’ he said . |
| 17 | The remaining three thousand million years or so have been taken up by the slow process of biological evolution , which has led from the simplest organisms to beings who are capable of measuring time back to the big bang . |
| 18 | Fairies greatly value human babies as a means of introducing new blood to their dwindling race , so have been known to steal them and leave a useless object behind . |
| 19 | But that 's cold comfort to the players who for the past two months or so have been attempting to qualify for the PGA European Tour . |
| 20 | The dates below have been agreed between the Director and the Producer . |
| 21 | The dates below have been agreed between the Director and the Producer . |
| 22 | The dates below have been agreed between the Director and the Producer . |
| 23 | Hundreds of armed riot police are surrounding the Russian parliament building and pro-Communist rebels inside have been given twenty-four hours to surrender . |
| 24 | Hundreds of armed riot police are surrounding the Russian parliament building and pro-Communist rebels inside have been given twenty-four hours to surrender . |
| 25 | The capability of a breakdown of gliadin peptides by the intestinal brush border enzymes alone have been studied in detail by Bruce et al when it was shown that brush border from coeliac patients and controls were able to hydrolyse gliadin completely in vitro . |
| 26 | Women and disabled drivers who feel at risk of breaking down alone have been thrown a lifeline by a motoring organisation . |
| 27 | Such considerations in relation to temperature alone have been considered in an earlier section . |
| 28 | And the price is a heavy one — compensation pay-outs for 1992-93 alone have been estimated at over £100m . |
| 29 | For example , many old people living alone have been forced to move into residential care when experiencing a temporary crisis ( perhaps a broken hip or a mild stroke ) in the absence of suitable emergency domiciliary care . |
| 30 | Since 1979 , no less than 27,000 different Government forms business was supposed to fill in have been scrapped . |