Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had perhaps been expecting a tougher comment and he hunched his shoulders , muttering suspiciously , ‘ I have n't got no religion . ’ |
| 2 | Cow 's milk allergy has hitherto been considered a temporary condition that improves or disappears with age . |
| 3 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 4 | ‘ But , ’ she had said suddenly , ‘ I have only been ordering a dozen geranium plants . ’ |
| 5 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
| 6 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
| 7 | The Russian panslavist press had long been advocating a Franco-Russian alliance and in November 1887 Bismarck had forbidden the Reichsbank to float a Russian loan . |
| 8 | Histamine has long been considered a putative mediator of the gastric acid secretory response to ethanol . |
| 9 | This whole question is of importance not only because it was so central to Engels 's book but also because The Origin has rightly been considered a major contribution to the feminist tradition . |
| 10 | In many ways this was a sensible policy since even if Danzig had not been made a Free City and had remained within the long arm of Prussia , the local economy was too poor to maintain it for long ; a German Danzig would still have been forced to rely upon a distant Vistula hinterland . |
| 11 | Perhaps if he had not been created a cardinal deacon he would have stayed in Bologna longer . |
| 12 | Unmet need was said to exist where there was a care option which had not been given a recent trial and had not been recently refused by the client . |
| 13 | Broadly , the survey confirmed that parents of children with special needs had not been given a real choice of placement , and that they had to fight hard for mainstream provision if this was their choice . |
| 14 | ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’ |
| 15 | New Zealand Test star Iro has not been given a new contract by Manly and was offered back to Wigan last week . |
| 16 | He 's not been given a legal decision , he 's passed an opinion , saying oh , this , this woman , was , you know , encouraging the man , and things like that , and that 's what gets people 's backs up , I think . |
| 17 | This fish has not been given a common name and is usually referred to as the ‘ sebae ’ . |
| 18 | He accepts that he can not make a categorical statement about innocence or guilt , but he feels that his constituent has not been given a fair hearing . |
| 19 | Er but er they 've not been studied a great deal by |
| 20 | If one of them had not been riding a white horse I would never have noticed them . |
| 21 | But there are grounds for scepticism : there has not been produced a clear coherent overall plan which places significant values , skills and , characteristics at the forefront of the curriculum . |
| 22 | Even when they have not been beating a religious drum , Western historians have been censured for their myopia in treating modern science as if it were an exclusively Western phenomenon . |
| 23 | A smaller table was beside the desk with a high-backed typewriter , the sign of a junior executive who has not been allocated a personal secretary and must write his own memoranda . |
| 24 | The jubilant Knox wrote about her death in terms which make it clear why charity has not been thought a notable feature of Scottish Calvinism . |
| 25 | I ALREADY reviewed this back in July but now that it 's finally been given a British release ‘ Perfect Day ’ will , in time , be seen as a perfect moment from MFS 's classic period , alongside excursions from Cosmic Baby , Microglobe and Mind Gear . |
| 26 | ( In the Soviet Union a draft law allowing all citizens to obtain a passport quickly had already been given a first reading , and the Soviet delegate estimated that between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 Soviet citizens could decide to emigrate " in the first two to three years " . ) |
| 27 | Chris had already been given a severe ticking-off when he 'd admitted to the box-office that he 'd lost count of the number of tickets and cheques he 'd stuffed into all his suit pockets . |
| 28 | ‘ You have already been given a full briefing on the facts , ’ said the President . |
| 29 | The judge said he 'd already been punished a thousand times . |
| 30 | We have already been using a few special words , and as we shall be using several more , let's define the meaning of some words and phrases connected with pruning . |