Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By 1988 the figure would probably have been nearer $55 million .
2 There may also have been earlier differences in the decision whether to take ‘ no further action ’ after arrest , or indeed in the decision by the police to arrest .
3 However , the Community has always had variable depth in its integration — in some areas it has been deeply integrated and in others there has been shallower integration .
4 Accordingly , an assembly such as this in England — and let me remind you there have been earlier ones , at Sheffield and Keele — is an act of homage to a great and greatly maligned poet ; but it is also , and can not help but be , a patriotic demonstration against ‘ suffocating insular coziness ’ .
5 However , the different status of suppliers will pose problems and muddy what would otherwise have been clearer waters .
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