Example sentences of "[conj] have [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And somehow , in a setting that had once been rural , it seemed yet more dire . |
| 32 | A country that had once been central to itself was on the periphery : it needed to become central again . |
| 33 | Trades that had once been skilled were being divided into their constituent parts so that less skill was required to carry out any one process . |
| 34 | The special field of organic chemistry was already flourishing , though this was still confined to the properties — mainly the properties useful in production — of materials derived from sources that had once been alive , such as coal . |
| 35 | Isolated in a foreign country , and longing for all that had once been familiar , if not at the time congenial , to him , it was easy for Lear to expect of Gould what he could never give . |
| 36 | The shabby coat that had once been old Mr Jarman 's strained across his broad shoulders , the short sleeves exposing a good length of arm ; the hands looking bigger than ever . |
| 37 | There was a cotton shirt that had once been cream-coloured , but was now a sodden , muddy grey . |
| 38 | He had a grey fringe round back and sides , although a few wisps that had once been fair or ginger were combed over the top . |
| 39 | Moreover , the proportion of women that had ever been married or in conjugal union by age 16 varied widely , from less than one per cent in the Republic of Korea to 87 per cent in Bangladesh . |
| 40 | Adjustment to their customers ' needs compelled them to establish an international presence that had hitherto been unnecessary . |
| 41 | He pointed out my Marvin as being a prototype he had made in 1964 , and said how the beech neck on my model was later fitted with a trim , and how the position of the 3-way selector switch was altered from vertical to horizontal following a request from Hank himself , knowledge that had hitherto been unknown to me . |
| 42 | A company that had always been paranoiac about labour unions , it should have noticed that it was suddenly at the mercy of customers ' unions . |
| 43 | My bed , fine , but my life … that was something that had always been untouchable , and , as far as I was concerned , always would be . |
| 44 | The reason for this quiet revolution was simple , the combination of hardware and software provided a management tool that had never been available before whilst being sorely needed in a world of ever increasing financial pressures . |
| 45 | It was essentially an extension of the friendly society schemes — the societies helped administer it — but it also covered occupational groups that had never been able to be members . |
| 46 | But immediately , the burden of the territorial and other material possessions of his church weighed upon him in a way that had never been evident at Bec under the relaxed rule of Duke Robert of Normandy . |
| 47 | Second , the occurrence of a strong global correlation between GNP and temperature does not necessarily mean that a cooler , more seasonal climate inherently favours socio-economic development ; it is arguable that such a relationship could be a fortuitous consequence of the high-latitude origins of modern industrialization , with that situation subsequently maintained by political and financial structures that have generally been disadvantageous to tropical nations . |
| 48 | Former Environment Secretary Jose Lutzenberger argues that the government 's first priority should be to regenerate the soil of the 400,000 square kilometres of the Amazon basin that have already been deforested , rather than encourage the opening up of virgin forest land . |
| 49 | The removal of persistent residues that give rise to foaming or smells could be an expensive process because they may be from materials that have not been amenable to treatment . |
| 50 | These three fungicides are already on a UK Ministry of Agriculture ( MAFF ) list of 100 pesticides up for review , that have not been subject to modern tests . |
| 51 | ‘ My job now is to focus on areas that yield business and pare down initiatives that have not been fruitful . |
| 52 | In nursing libraries a set of film loops of practical procedures can be made available , either for revision or to illustrate procedures that have not been available during a period of ward experience . |
| 53 | To what extent are Central European countries that have not been Sovietized ( e.g. Austria and West Germany ) similar or different from those that were ? |
| 54 | Corporate users are hankering after the sort of power , networking features and ‘ scalability ’ ( the ability to expand a network almost infinitely ) that have long been available on workstations . |
| 55 | Zapp is the supreme professional , who embodies , albeit comically , those ideals of professionalism that have long been dominant in the North American academy and are becoming so in the British . |
| 56 | Every year companies that have never been involved in selling abroad join the important , and often highly profitable , league of exporters or licensors and some even establish joint ventures or subsidiary companies in overseas countries . |
| 57 | A general reading of the book encourages the suspicion that the principle of verification is being used , not simply to exclude some clear and obvious errors , but to cut out swathes of philosophical tradition that have never been guilty of the crude misconceptions of which they are accused by Ayer . |
| 58 | It must be said , however , that it is not only the obviously authoritarian Third World regimes , desperate for FDI , that have sometimes been prepared to sacrifice the interests of their workers in order to insure the jobs created by the TNCs . |
| 59 | A secret valley that 's never been open to the public could soon be taken over by the National Trust . |
| 60 | It 's a magical place that 's never been open to the public . |