Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unfriendly comment of Edgar Wind in Art and Anarchy was : ‘ What has optimistically been called a ‘ museum without walls ' ’ is in fact a museum on paper — a paper-world of art in which the epic oratory of Malraux proclaims , with the voice of a crier in the market place , that all art is composed in a single key , that huge monuments and small coins have the same plastic eloquence if transferred to the scale of the printed page , that a gouache can equal a fresco . ’ |
| 2 | Sagarmatha National Park was born in 1976 and has since been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO . |
| 3 | I have since been offered a write-up in one of the car hi-fi magazines about the work on my car and others we have worked on . |
| 4 | He had perhaps been expecting a tougher comment and he hunched his shoulders , muttering suspiciously , ‘ I have n't got no religion . ’ |
| 5 | Ecology , for example , had hitherto been granted a rather lowly status by professional scientists on account of its association with the kind of amateur botanical pursuits beloved of Victorian country vicars . |
| 6 | Cow 's milk allergy has hitherto been considered a temporary condition that improves or disappears with age . |
| 7 | ‘ 'Course I 'ave n't , you 've only been gone a minute . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 9 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 10 | ‘ But , ’ she had said suddenly , ‘ I have only been ordering a dozen geranium plants . ’ |
| 11 | The planet had only been recontacted a century earlier . |
| 12 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 13 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
| 14 | This may be an odd thing to say when you 've only been married a month , but it 's true . |
| 15 | Lamb 's QC had told the appeal he felt harshly treated when Surrey , whose bowlers had actually been caught ball-tampering three times , had only been handed a £1,000 suspended fine . |
| 16 | He had only been commissioned a week . |
| 17 | Yeah , she 's only been driving a year , two years . |
| 18 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
| 19 | The Russian panslavist press had long been advocating a Franco-Russian alliance and in November 1887 Bismarck had forbidden the Reichsbank to float a Russian loan . |
| 20 | In 1861 : ‘ I 've long been meditating a novel on insanity , or rather on how one becomes insane . ’ |
| 21 | Although the cusp has long been considered a well defined spatial structure maintained by continuous reconnection , it has recently been suggested r4–6 that reconnection instead may take place in a series of discontinuous events ; this is the ‘ pulsating cusp model ’ . |
| 22 | The right to demonstrate against unpopular causes has long been considered a bulwark of liberty in any civilised society , enabling groups within that society to attempt to influence public opinion , to express their solidarity , to pressurise government and publicise their cause . |
| 23 | While classics , for example , are considered essentially upper- or upper-middle-class disciplines , engineering ( in this country at any rate ) has long been considered a subject suitable for aspirant working-class men . |
| 24 | Histamine has long been considered a putative mediator of the gastric acid secretory response to ethanol . |
| 25 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 26 | This whole question is of importance not only because it was so central to Engels 's book but also because The Origin has rightly been considered a major contribution to the feminist tradition . |
| 27 | Clearly he had not been expecting a confrontation . |
| 28 | ‘ Miss Kenton , I have not been using a dust-pan . ’ |
| 29 | In many ways this was a sensible policy since even if Danzig had not been made a Free City and had remained within the long arm of Prussia , the local economy was too poor to maintain it for long ; a German Danzig would still have been forced to rely upon a distant Vistula hinterland . |
| 30 | Perhaps if he had not been created a cardinal deacon he would have stayed in Bologna longer . |