Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have latterly been speaking only of causal circumstances , and not causes . |
| 2 | Years of close military co-operation , including joint work in missile development , have given Egypt valuable information about its former Iraqi ally , which has presumably been passed on to the Americans . |
| 3 | ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people . |
| 4 | Official projections of the spread of Aids have mercifully been revised downwards , but around 50,000 are believed to be infected in Britain , and the disease is pandemic in parts of Africa . |
| 5 | This happened rather often , and if the inhabitants of Oswaldston had not mostly been shut up in front of their televisions at this time of day , it might already have given rise to some talk . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , though creative financing has mostly been stamped on , some councils ' past ingenuity is catching up with them . |
| 7 | All along the Baltic region brick building began early , owing to the lack of stone materials , but such work has mostly been altered later , in the Middle Ages , or was destroyed in the Second World War . |
| 8 | Policing issues are never long out of the headlines ( Chibnall 1977 ) , and this media obsession has been transmitted into a wealth of analyses of policing — which have mostly been carried out by outside observers . |
| 9 | ‘ These deals have slowly been finding out that they just ca n't get financing , ’ said William Lefebvre , a market analyst with New York 's Advest group . |
| 10 | And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour . |
| 11 | The main contract is progressing well , following the successful if frantic mobilisation period , which reflects great credit on those involved , particularly Jan van Smirran who has since been transferred too Singapore to manage this and other contracts . |
| 12 | In Scotland the most obvious example of this — the Scottish Development Agency ( SDA ) — is not strictly a local government but a regional organization , yet in many ways it has provided a model for initiatives which have since been developed elsewhere at local level . |
| 13 | Table 7 gives some idea of the many Friesian derivatives which have since been developed all over the world . |
| 14 | In 1983 , the Turkish Cypriots declared their own republic , which has since been recognised only by Turkey . |
| 15 | The original 260,000 employees have since been whittled down to 50,000 and Sir Monty is a little resentful that he is probably most remembered for setting that radical rundown in motion . |
| 16 | The hunt has since been called off . |
| 17 | That possibility has since been ruled out . |
| 18 | The manor has long since been broken up and sold off and Andrew now only holds small pieces of land , though these include some of the grass and trees where the proclamation is made . |
| 19 | Many houses have since been built in and near Back Lane . |
| 20 | He has proved himself as a coach , and any doubts harboured at Anfield about his judgement have long since been swept away . |
| 21 | As a result , half of the Saimaa Canal , which links the Gulf of Finland with Lake Saimaa ( Finland 's largest lake system ) , fell into Soviet hands and has since been cut off to yachts wishing to enter from the Baltic Sea . |
| 22 | That the classical wooden-bodied Pullman cars of earlier days had long since been split up and sold or scrapped was no deterrent . |
| 23 | If Robson Rhodes had not decided to make fundamental changes in its operating style five years ago , the chances are that it would have long since been swallowed up by one of its rivals . |
| 24 | It has since been pointed out by Digby McLaren ( 1970 ) that many other groups disappeared at the same level or underwent traumatic changes . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the process started at Bristol was a beginning and has since been continued so nobly by Jo , that there are occasions now when I not only know that I am good — getting close to the shining white — but even a benefit to society ! |
| 26 | Han Chinese have since been pouring in , lured by promises of jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities . |
| 27 | He arrived in the West Country after a long train journey from his Cleveland home to admit that the Fedora , ever-present symbol of Crystal Palace 's 1976 FA Cup run , has long since been auctioned off for £1,500 to charity . |
| 28 | Here it would be tempting to assume , whether modestly or angrily , that there is another group of readers — the sophisticated , the expert , the professional , for whom such problems simply do n't exist , or have long since been left behind . |
| 29 | She stayed at the Xenias Melathron , a little old hotel that has since been pulled down , but has an after-life in her story ‘ The Voices ’ , to which the amusing waiter Polycarp , who brought her breakfast to her , also contributed . |
| 30 | She was able to keep Steve because where she lived within the er there was a little coronet of little tatty houses that have since been pulled down and she was related to fifteen in fifteen out of the twenty two houses she had a relative . |