Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 14 May 1778 ) In the same letter Mozart informed his father that he had unofficially been offered the post of organist at Versailles which , if he were to accept , would mean spending six months of the year in Versailles and the remaining six months wherever he liked . |
| 2 | What has since been called the ‘ Wolfenden strategy ’ is made explicit here . |
| 3 | In fact in the eighteen nineties , I believe the seeds were being sown , of what has since been called the time obsession of the twentieth century . |
| 4 | It has since been christened the ‘ Vinegar ’ Bible and would be a fine ( and weighty ) addition to a collection , probably costing in the £200-£400 bracket . |
| 5 | Dr Ian Keeping , who diagnosed TB and has since been treating the doctor , said : ‘ The man stopped work immediately and we set about investigations to establish a diagnosis . |
| 6 | After the discovery that the Tramways Department had effectively been subsidising the Illuminations for years , a completely new Illuminations Department was set up in 1936 under Freddie Field . |
| 7 | Among many dramatic examples the ruff has perhaps been studied the most thoroughly ( Hogan-Warburg 1966 ) . |
| 8 | are retired so they got no income and then perhaps been left the house |
| 9 | The fact that one in five of the complaints were held to be breaches of the code shows that the tobacco companies have perhaps been treating the committee and the issue in a cavalier way . |
| 10 | For the past week she 'd literally been counting the days . |
| 11 | But she was floating , up , away , soaring on the strength of his kiss like a bird who had been caged , tethered too long , and had suddenly been given the flight of freedom . |
| 12 | After all , he 's only been experiencing the outside world since his vaccination course was completed a few weeks ago . |
| 13 | Criticism arrangement and pointed out that William Hay had only been elected the first DUP mayor after being nominated for the fifth time . |
| 14 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 15 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 16 | She sent him a memo — the usual form of royal communication — but he replied negatively , arguing that it was n't possible as she had only been doing the job for a short time . |
| 17 | Some members of the anti-abortion lobby had apparently been indicating the ‘ weak ’ moral stance of protestants on the issue . |
| 18 | FRANCE 's ruling Socialists had long been expecting the deb∘acle . |
| 19 | Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware . |
| 20 | Eliot had long been accumulating the anthropological knowledge which would affect the literature of his own future . |
| 21 | Indians had long been demanding the return of sacred relics , and both Stanford University and the University of Minnesota had already agreed to release their collections to Indians . |
| 22 | The children — aged between four weeks and six years — had all been given the drug while under intensive care , a report in yesterday 's British Medical Journal revealed . |
| 23 | They have all been voted the most boring people in America , according to a poll in Mademoiselle magazine . |
| 24 | Like the good gossip he was , he had merely been marshalling the various elements of his anecdote to their best advantage . |
| 25 | The spiritual successor to the Jaguar E-type has finally been given the go-ahead . |
| 26 | He felt he had finally been given the spade to bury himself with . |
| 27 | There is usually a clearly seen demarcation between upper and lower sausage-shaped groups of glands , which has aptly been named the ‘ sign of the groove ’ . |
| 28 | In the midst of the proceedings , when they have already been given the Ten Commandments and much besides , and Moses is on the summit of Sinai receiving more torah to relay to them , they rebel . |
| 29 | These committees were to work in concert with the police and with the KGB ( which , under a Nov. 23 USSR Supreme Soviet resolution , had already been given the responsibility of ensuring that food aid from abroad did not fall into the hands of speculators ) . |
| 30 | He had already been dubbed the ‘ Quaker murderer ’ . |