Example sentences of "[adv] been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lunch had not altogether been a waste of time . |
| 2 | Secondly , admission to a psychiatric unit has presumably been the result of distress which in many cases will persist after admission . |
| 3 | Liberal democracy benefits capitalism not because capitalists control workers ' minds but because the industrial proletariat have rarely been a majority and are a now shrinking minority in advanced capitalist societies . |
| 4 | However , the inequalities in higher education have rarely been the subject of close and critical attention ; far from arguing that higher education serves to reproduce inequalities , commentators ( e.g. Wolpe 1977 ) have argued merely that higher education functions to train middle-class students to take up positions of status and responsibility in society , such as civil servants , managers , teachers and doctors . |
| 5 | Although it has rarely been the subject of judicial pronouncement the conceptual basis of the " conventional " sums awarded by the courts in respect of non-pecuniary losses appears to be that such sums are what are considered fair and reasonable compensation in the social , economic and industrial conditions which prevail in England and Wales . |
| 6 | Furthermore , industrialization has rarely been the panacea for rural development that had been hoped . |
| 7 | Gray had at the most been a shade injudicious , a little unworldly , perhaps , in his supervision of Jefferson . |
| 8 | ‘ Since then it 's mostly been a case of building up our database . |
| 9 | Traditionally , corporate takeover activity has predominantly been a feature of UK and US markets . |
| 10 | The original money was quickly invested and there has since been a stream of rights issues , particularly from companies in Thailand where the fund is 37.8 per cent invested . |
| 11 | It 's since been a cafe , a grill and a bric-a-brac shop , with plans now to turn it into a museum and heritage centre ; something Browne Willis would doubtless have approved of . |
| 12 | Such an interpretation is not inconsistent with Katib Celebi 's brief account , particularly if it is remembered that by his time the Seyhulislam had long since been the Mufti of Istanbul and that he may therefore have concerned himself with trying to sketch the history of the office only in so far as it related to that city . |
| 13 | IT 'S long since been the woman 's domain . |
| 14 | IT 'S long since been the woman 's domain . |
| 15 | IT 'S long since been the woman 's domain . |
| 16 | It was effectively superseded in 1980 by the Latin American Integration Association ( LAIA ) , which allowed bilateral deals and has since been an umbrella under which they have proliferated ( Tussie 1987 : p. 129 ) . |
| 17 | While there has perhaps been a tendency to over-emphasise health and safety issues in risk management at the expense of others , the weight of legislation in this area has led to the appointment of someone in this role almost as a priority . |
| 18 | But the whole experience left me ruefully feeling that it had perhaps been a mistake to publish a report about them . |
| 19 | Has there perhaps been a change in the flow or direction of this current ? |
| 20 | The environment has hitherto been a fief of the interior ministry . |
| 21 | Milton remarked that this chair had hitherto been a sinecure , though it carried a salary of over £100 per annum and would ‘ serve any gentleman especially a law[y]er ’ . |
| 22 | an education of this kind is the greatest benefit which could be conferred upon any citizen of a great state , and … the common right to it , the common discipline and enjoyment of it , the common possession of the tastes and association connected with it , would form a new element of national unity , linking together the mental life of all classes by experiences which have hitherto been the privilege of a limited section . |
| 23 | In its document Partnership in Validation , it declared its intention of granting approval to ‘ well established courses ’ for indefinite periods , instead of for five years as had hitherto been the case . |
| 24 | During the eighteenth century diplomats were less irregularly paid than had hitherto been the case and there can be seen the first efforts , though very limited and ineffective ones , to provide them with some systematic professional training . |
| 25 | Perhaps development of nursery education on a much greater scale , bigger scale than has hitherto been the case |
| 26 | Perhaps a development of nursery education on a much greater scale , bigger scale than has hitherto been the case |
| 27 | Character dance like demi-caractère dance had its beginnings in La Fille Mal Gardée when farmers and peasants were first allowed to set foot on the Royal and Imperial stages , which had hitherto been the home of gods and goddesses or noble and well-born heroes and heroines . |
| 28 | But the meeting understood that " It has hitherto been the policy of this HQ and remains ( it is understood ) the advice of the British Resident Minister and the US Political Adviser that all classes and types of dissident and anti-Tito Jugoslavs who fall into the hands of Allied Forces either in Italy or in Austria should not be forced to return to Jugoslavia … " |
| 29 | It is reasonable to suppose that these language users might ( even accidentally ) hit on new combinations of phrases to produce slightly longer sentences than had hitherto been the rule : sentences , moreover , whose newly-coined significance derived from both the context of their first use and the pre-established significance of their components . |
| 30 | One might say that the architect 's or engineer 's conception of a model replaced what had hitherto been the accountant 's model — C6H6 , the mere counting of atoms — in the chemical formula . |