Example sentences of "[adv] been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | With this defence the defendant is saying that the plaintiff has failed to take reasonable care and thereby been partly responsible for his own injuries , loss or damage . |
| 2 | However , music chosen from a composer 's total output and specially arranged as a score for a three-act ballet with a story has rarely been completely successful . |
| 3 | If these changes in family structure and parental roles are of recent origin , current political dimensions of child care policy , which have rarely been more prominent than today , surely have a longer history . |
| 4 | Even when she was tiny she had n't really thought of him that way , and when she was older , about thirteen , she had secretly been terribly proud in front of the other girls when Georg , who had never seemed to go through a spotty adolescent phase like other boys , used to wait for her outside school so that they could walk up the mountain road together . |
| 5 | The structure of universities in Germany , France , Britain and the USA was very different , but everywhere they were by the end of the century centres of scientific research , while at the beginning of it they had mostly been very marginal to it . |
| 6 | TIM PAGE , photographed above in Vietnam , started work as a photographer in the country in 1963 at the age of twenty , and worked there intermittently until 1969. he has since been back six times — in the early Eighties for The Observer , and more recently to research his book Ten Years After . |
| 7 | Although Moscovitch argued that the right hemisphere showed little or no language ability , other workers have since been less dismissive . |
| 8 | Pill users have since been further worried by reports that early use of the pill can cause cancer of the breast ( Pike et al . |
| 9 | Whereas the long-term significance of human activity upon plants and animals and soil characteristics and distributions has provided one research focus , in climatology the emphasis has perhaps been more evident on a spatial scale with the impact of human activity first appreciated at the local scale but then subsequently extended to the meso and thence to the world scale . |
| 10 | He had perhaps been too long in high office , too isolated from discordant views by the well-oiled Birmingham machine to take full account of the volume of dissent . |
| 11 | Despite the numbers of scientists involved , physical geographers have not perhaps been as prominent as they should have been in the investigation of the human impact upon soil systems . |
| 12 | As the Soviet authorities were still trying to restore order in the Transcaucasian republic of Azerbaijan following the violence there in January [ see below ; pp. 37168-70 ] , nationalist rioting erupted on Feb. 11 in Dushanbe , the capital of the Central Asian republic of Tadjikistan , which had hitherto been largely untouched by the nationalist or inter-ethnic unrest afflicting much of the southern Soviet Union . |
| 13 | Criticisms of Germany had hitherto been largely implicit in the philhellenic perspective . |
| 14 | For even if the Danes say Yes to the treaty ( see next article ) , worries about it are growing in three European countries that have hitherto been staunchly pro-European . |
| 15 | Freud cites one young man in relation to his father and another in relation to his twin , as well as the main case , a young woman in relation to her mother : ‘ It , then , the girl became homosexual and left men to her mother ( in other words ‘ retired in favour of' ’ her mother ) , she would hitherto remove something which had hitherto been partly responsible for her mother 's dislike' ( ix . |
| 16 | The government found it necessary to try to impose a centrally determined framework on what had hitherto been entirely local , and often monastic , charitable initiatives . |
| 17 | In all the paintings the deviations from traditional perspective , which in landscape painting had hitherto been only slight , are carried to new lengths . |
| 18 | Thus the subject matter of this chapter , combining as it does both practices in the teaching of the arts and LEA 's INSET policies , has hitherto been virtually unresearched . |
| 19 | Competing in the free market of air fares had catapulted Branson into the rarefied area of government policy and international relations , and helped to define what had hitherto been purely instinctive beliefs in a more rigid ideological context . |
| 20 | Whereas biological agents have hitherto been less efficient in total kill , speed of kill and activity spectrum , they are also attractive — resistance to them in natural pest populations is infrequent , and they can present fewer hazards to operators and the environment . |
| 21 | This alone had been enough to bring frowns to Felipe 's dark face , but as they were leaving Ana 's tears had suddenly been too much for Mitch to bear . |
| 22 | There particularly , a number of communities which had only been partially viable now began to disintegrate . |
| 23 | He do n't know nothing — he 's only been here 10 years . ’ |
| 24 | She 's only been here two weekends , and none of us had worked for her in the past … |
| 25 | No because they cou first , that 's been here about three weeks and the little one 's only been here two weeks . |
| 26 | He 's so good seeing he 's only been here two days . |
| 27 | I 've only been here four years we had the white one remember the gas one got certified dangerous ? |
| 28 | After all , I 've only been here five years ! |
| 29 | We 've only been here three quarters of an hour ! |
| 30 | I 've only been here three years now ! |