Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Tocqueville 's Democracy in America is , as has been noted , essentially a study of American society , and one commentator has even suggested that it might better have been called Equality in America .
2 No material was found , and the Home Office insisted that if it had been it would not have been made public .
3 Had the court been provided with the information that was necessary , he said , PW would not have been appointed receiver-manager because of ‘ the untenable conflict position ’ in which it had placed itself .
4 The Bishop quotes , with approval , G. Bennett on spider webs : It is impossible for one who has watched the work for many hours to have any doubt that neither the present spiders of this species nor their ancestors were ever the architects of the web or that it could conceivably have been produced step by step through random variation ; it would be as absurd to suppose that the intricate and exact proportions of the Parthenon were produced by piling together bits of marble .
5 His preaching was scholarly and evangelical and he would probably have been elected Vice-President of the Conference but for the onset of ill-health .
6 The daughter of an Oxfordshire couple murdered four years ago has been awarded compensation .
7 Well how do you feel I mean a lot of a lot if not all of your work here has been done face to face .
8 This procedure is seen by most family health services authorities as a last resort , after practices deemed to be prescribing inappropriately have been offered information and help to lower their prescribing rates and costs .
9 The Leeds manager would never have been given air time on general football matters as he was always perceived as someone who was fronting an organisation that stood for the worst things in football .
10 But there is an action group of people opposed to it who say it should never have been given planning permission .
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