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

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1	Unlike almost the whole of the rest of Roman law , trusts had by the end of the classical period been actionable in cognitio for centuries .
2	Why , oh why in this most fertile season imaginable for a growth spurt in Labour popularity , have the green shoots of a Labour recovery been choked back yet again by our stupidity .
3	Never has the start of a new decade been met with such exciting business opportunities .
4	The English , English and not American English or German English and er this part of a massive project been undertaken from the British Isles , in Suffolk it 's already been to Thomas More 's High School to report in lessons , here a , he decided to use the highway facility
5	However , governments have for a long time been divided over how large a merger must be before it passes out of national hands to Brussels .
6	The last has for a long time been the argument most favoured by political theorists .
7	Certain types of small bacteria , called mycoplasma or ureaplasma , have for a long time been thought to be responsible for some cases of NGU .
8	There had for a long time been publicly expressed unease in the United Kingdom about the unsatisfactory training of people treating the diseases of animals , whether they were farriers in the sense of being shoeing-smiths acting as horse-doctors , or were medical practitioners — physicians , or more especially surgeons — who had , partly or completely , left human medicine for the less crowded and potentially more lucrative ( if less socially acceptable ) field of animal medicine .
9	For example , it has for a long time been generally accepted by students of organisation that any organisation is likely to need a number of rules and procedures to guide the behaviour of organisational members .
10	Captain America 's main man EUGENE KELLY got in touch to tell us the latest development , namely the withdrawing of the sleeve , and added : ‘ I have for a long time been a devoted customer of C&A and will only wear socks and pants with the C&A label .
11	The geographical concentration of the relatively high per capita income services — especially in finance — in London and the South East has for a long time been a feature of the British economy [ Brown , 1972 ] .
12	Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her .
13	Special education has for a long time been fertile ground for curricula based on linear models of learning , guided and assessed through hierarchies of objectives .
14	The Institute of Economic Affairs had for a long time been polemicising against the extension of state activity on the grounds that it restricted choice , led to dependency and reduced the motivation to work , and fostered economic inefficiency in comparison with ‘ private enterprise ’ .
15	Doubt was cast on Cameron 's results partly by the lack of control data he offered , and , later , after his death , his reputation for scientific integrity was irretrievably damaged by the revelation that much of his experimental work had for a long time been secretly supported by the CIA , including some rather insidious studies of the effects of covertly administered LSD on the behaviour of unsuspecting people .
16	Safety , which has for a long time been assumed to be at odds with commercial considerations , is now a business interest .
17	I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht .
18	High acidity of the duodenal contents has for a long time been found to be associated with gastric metaplasia , both in humans and in laboratory animals .
19	Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections .
20	Walker , who apart from the Prime Minister herself ( Margaret Thatcher ) and Sir Geoffrey Howe was the only remaining member of the Conservative Cabinet formed in 1979 ( and who had also been a member of Edward Heath 's Cabinet in 1970-74 ) , had for a considerable time been regarded as in many ways out of sympathy with certain aspects of Thatcher 's political philosophy .
21	Not only has the plan for a two-speed EMU been endorsed by Chancellor Kohl 's Vice President of the Bundesbank , Dr Hans Tietmeyer , but also geo-political plans for a Europe of ‘ concentric circles ’ based around an inner federal core of politically and economically integrated countries have been drawn up by Kohl 's adviser , Michael Mertes .
22	And the peedie fairy came back and lived with the old wife been afore .
23	There is a good argument that the exclusion of a development corporation has in the long term been to Cramlington 's advantage , but the opportunity for land development profits was very important .
24	Only in the last hundred years have most people in the developed world been able to read and write .
25	Sadly , though , we have in the past year been through the painful process of shedding a large number of jobs .
26	Rarely has division within a ruling party been so bitter .
27	The social standing of deaf people may also have in no small way been aided by the Princess of Wales ( later Queen Alexandra ) who was stone deaf and who used fingerspelling as well as lipreading to communicate .
28	Nowhere had a traditional culture 's response to the Western world been so completely reflected in the life of its railways and stations .
29	Never has their attack on the Labour Party been so comprehensive .
30	The ultra vires doctrine has on the other hand been used to curtail management ‘ generosity ’ to non-shareholder groups in the form of gratuitous payments .