Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sister Marcus said Mr Francis was rather poorly and had been moved from the Seriously Ill to the Dangerously Ill List . |
| 2 | GPSG is computationally economical and has been developed to a point where a large number of interesting syntactic phenomena may be dealt with in an integrated formal framework . |
| 3 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 4 | For example , if the product proves less stable than had been anticipated it may be necessary to shorten the intervals between examinations . |
| 5 | In fact , however , our knowledge here is not so deficient as has been imagined . |
| 6 | The effects of evacuation were perceived in terms of social pathology , so that although evacuation was pronounced less harmful than had been feared the effect of the analysis was to see the normal development of children as problematic , and to emphasise the compensatory role of agencies outside the family — school and its directing bodies in particular . |
| 7 | THE GASH sustained by Carroll House after he proved himself a cut above the rest of Europe in Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe looked a lot less serious than had been feared when Britain 's new equine hero was examined on his return to Newmarket yesterday , writes John Karter . |
| 8 | The package was less comprehensive than had been expected , however , for observers agreed that the options available to Lee were restricted by sharply rising inflation ( consumer prices rose by over 3 per cent in the first quarter of 1990 ) which precluded any general reduction in interest rates . |
| 9 | I had hoped to be the editor of a book all on my own at last , but this project is important and so urgent that have been drafted on to help . |
| 10 | If , however , we wish to prove the existence of ‘ the back of ’ something using quite different criteria of testimony and disallowing all those activities which gave rise to the concept in the first place , then perhaps our proof of the uncertainty of the existence of backs will be less powerful than has been imagined . |
| 11 | As Ives ( 1987 ) has pointed out , the issue of environmental degradation in the Himalaya is extremely complex and has been extensively debated during the 1980s , giving rise to what he describes as the Himalaya Environmental Degradation Theory ( HEDT ) . |
| 12 | The modest resettlement programme in rural areas which aimed to improve the grossly inequitable distribution of land prevailing during the colonial period was less effective than had been hoped , and was cut back by the stabilization measures taken in 1982–84 . |
| 13 | When human life was so short and had been so cheap , what was there but the living , the greed of the moment ? |
| 14 | But disaster , when it came , was less severe than had been foretold . |
| 15 | However , subsequent assessments suggested that the damage was much less severe than had been originally feared . |
| 16 | She is extremely distressed and has been seen by a police surgeon . |
| 17 | Indeed , some people have suggested that it was so difficult as to have been impossible , but this is to underestimate the intelligence and ingenuity of our forebears . |
| 18 | Sitting by her bedroom window later that night , Laura lectured herself for having been so naïve as to have been upset by the remarks he had originally made on the dance-floor . |
| 19 | From this standpoint it may be doubted whether the present image of nationalism is quite so unfavourable as has been claimed . |
| 20 | The Wingti government also claimed that the army 's advance was largely unresisted and had been in response to the invitation of local chiefs . |
| 21 | Erm , erm the first , finally liked to add that erm my personal thanks to all those who have taken part on the panel I 've found it immensely enriching and have been |
| 22 | The fact that NTS have deliberately cut publicity about Ben Lawers is not new and has been reported many times . |
| 23 | This concept of selective insulin resistance is not new and has been well demonstrated in animal models . |
| 24 | Overall , it appeared by the middle of March that the Gulf environment was proving more resilient than had been feared , but environmentalists cautioned that the full extent of the damage would not be apparent for some time , particularly as the oil sank to the bed of the shallow Gulf , where it would damage vital food plants . |
| 25 | Although the former heads of the two securities houses added little to their previous statements , Tabuchi admitted on Aug. 29 that Nomura 's links with Japan 's organized crime syndicates , which had been revealed in July [ see p. 38342 ] , were currently under investigation and might prove to have been more extensive than had been initially suggested . |
| 26 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 27 | Six patients are still alive and have been undergoing tratment for 5.5–24 months ( median 15 months ) . |
| 28 | Yet the war proved far longer and more destructive than had been generally expected . |
| 29 | Moreover , the peasantry were proving more acquiescent than had been expected , and the government was responding to the financial concern of the nobility with a variety of measures including plans to establish provincial banks . |
| 30 | As we shall see in subsequent chapters , the approach they have taken to fundamental freedoms has on a number of important occasions been radically different and altogether more liberal than has been the case here . |