Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now opera has rarely been a naturalistic medium , and never an understated one .
2 There has rarely been a clearer example of the extent to which a Conservative leader sets the keynote for the party the extent to which it is moulded round its leader .
3 On the fiftieth anniversary of the dispute , in 1976 , several books appeared on the subject , producing a surfeit of published research to which there has since been no significant addition .
4 Far from being the concrete , it has always rather been the theoretical problem .
5 The last two summers have been very hot and dry , although this summer has luckily been a great deal better .
6 perhaps been a little bit dismissive of it because
7 However , by adept diplomacy , he was able to impose a form of pax Britannica on what had hitherto been a turbulent part of Africa and thereby maintain the conditions best suited for fostering trade .
8 There was further a need to replace what had hitherto been a haphazard method of payment by a more formalised scheme involving the payment of a specified sum on the completion of each flat .
9 The Treaty brings about the formal transformation of what has hitherto been an Economic Community into a Union which is mandated to act in many areas on behalf of its own citizens , and to claim their allegiance .
10 Beyond this , however , its origin has hitherto been an insoluble problem : the explicit evidence of the ancients is notoriously inadequate and various different theories have been constructed from it .
11 ’ As the influence of Cézanne grew , so that of Gauguin , who had hitherto been an important influence in the work of the Fauves , waned .
12 The research will thus deviate from the common run of ‘ community ’ studies which have hitherto been the main focus of anthropological research on ethnic minorities in Britain .
13 A report published in Le Monde on Sept. 19 noted that Egypt 's earnings from workers overseas had hitherto been the main source of foreign exchange receipts , amounting to over $2,000 million per year , of which $500 million came from workers in Kuwait alone .
14 Nevertheless , around one in two Germans in both the American and the British Zones — and a percentage on the increase — thought that National Socialism had basically been a good idea , badly carried out , and were far more favourably disposed to it than to communism .
15 It has not necessarily been a good thing in all ways , and there has certainly been a downside .
16 Ian , thanks ever so much , it 's not necessarily been an easy ride for you , but we 're glad to know you and we look forward to meeting you again .
17 Most four-day matches have not only been a better preparation for Test cricketers but have also produced generally more interesting cricket .
18 In the Titan he had only been a partial paladin — merely part of a vaster amplified body which also comprised Tundrish and Valence and Zed Juron and , oh yes , Akbar too .
19 On the contrary , the development of such instruments has only been a first step , preparatory to examining the reasons people differ on such traits .
20 It had only been a brief talk and nothing improper was intimated .
21 He 'd closed his eyes once in the last forty hours , and that had only been a restless doze in the back of the car on the way to the border .
22 But Derek Law , deputy director of the SSD , said there had only been a few teething problems .
23 If they 'd only been a few inches longer ; or perhaps if his upper body was n't so big then his legs would n't be so noticeable .
24 He was walking towards a new life , a kind of freedom which had only been an idealistic daydream for nearly sixty years .
25 His territorial reordering of the 1470s had apparently been a great success , creating a nexus of trusted associates prepared to work in the crown 's interests , while those outside the charmed circle seemed , by the end of the decade , to have acquiesced in their exclusion .
26 His territorial reordering of the 1470s had apparently been a great success , creating a nexus of trusted associates prepared to work in the crown 's interests , while those outside the charmed circle seemed , by the end of the decade , to have acquiesced in their exclusion .
27 Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force .
28 Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force .
29 One minute there had apparently been an entire nation , set upon racial purity and world domination , and then the next …
30 The strict controls over our life at school , our terrible school uniform and the climate of East Yorkshire conspired against either of these sexual eventualities , which had apparently been the common run of existence in Trinidad .
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