Example sentences of "been [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This catalogue raisonné has been keenly awaited for several years ; work began before the artist 's death in 1988 , aged eighty-six . |
| 2 | The use of multivariate analysis ( common in igneous geochemistry ) has been little applied to modal compositions of sediments , although it offers considerable potential . |
| 3 | It has been little affected by sex-discrimination legislation . |
| 4 | Lack of breakage , however , only characterizes some of the owl assemblages , but there has been little published on this subject . |
| 5 | The company had therefore been properly served with English proceedings by an American museum in Ohio , but since the Ohio court was the more appropriate forum for the trial of disputes between the parties , the English action would be stayed . |
| 6 | The castle had not been properly maintained for many years and after the auction it was allowed to crumble . |
| 7 | Erm the caravan sites act nineteen sixty eight er , paragraph fifteen did actually , I think address the provision government sites quite well , or it would have if it had actually been properly implemented in that there was a carrot and stick , there was stick or requirement |
| 8 | I do n't think this point has been properly understood by many people who have been given the impression that the films are a kind of expensive toy , when in fact you are the first conductor in history to use film as an integral extension of your work as an interpretative artist . |
| 9 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 10 | This had all been properly reported to Eighth Army . |
| 11 | Is it not a fact that everyone in the Home Office associated with this case has been properly advised by qualified lawyers , that the facts that my right hon. Friend had produced to the House today are not in dispute and that the issue is one of constitutional importance only ? |
| 12 | Because of the variety and confusion of possibilities and responsibilities after the compulsory school period the need for a guide has been widely recognised by young people and their families . |
| 13 | Gerald Egan 's model of ‘ The Skilled Helper ’ has been widely adopted as most suitable for this type of advice work . |
| 14 | Strike action on the coalfields was the major catalyst for the 1926 General Strike , and the miners have been widely perceived for several decades as at the forefront of trade union militancy in the United Kingdom . |
| 15 | The Spielberger anxiety scale consists of twenty statements that gauge how respondents feel ‘ right now , at this moment ’ and has been widely evaluated in healthy American adults and in non-psychiatric hospital inpatients . |
| 16 | This idea was so firmly rooted that it was perhaps for this reason that these results from radio astronomy seem not to have been widely accepted at first . |
| 17 | Although there has been much detailed study of the effects of tariff reduction in western Europe over the period 1945-68 there has been virtually no research into the impact on foreign trade and national balances of payments of the removal of non-tariff barriers , especially the quotas which had been widely imposed from 1931 onwards . |
| 18 | Traditionally a strong , fast draught breed ( and therefore horned ) the Limousin is now an important and popular beef and veal breed which has been widely exported to European countries and to North America , Australasia and South Africa . |
| 19 | Scholarships , Grants and Awards brochures and application forms are now available and have been widely circulated to all Sections and those who have requested them . |
| 20 | This exercise is valuable in helping to show how a distorted version of Freud 's ideas has been widely diffused within many institutional spheres of American life , from social work agencies to industrial management training , religious institutions , and to the private sphere of marriage and family life . |
| 21 | Predictive readability formulae such as those of Flesch ( 1948 ) and Dale and Chall ( 1948 ) have been widely used on both sides of the Atlantic for decades . |
| 22 | ‘ Authoring Systems'--computer systems which allow a non-programmer ‘ author ’ to create a program automatically--have been widely used for industrial training software and offer unrivalled productivity . |
| 23 | No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons . |
| 24 | The term ‘ Personnel Management ’ has been widely used for 50 to 60 years to describe a range of activities , a body o& knowledge and a set of skills associated with the recruitment , administration and development of staff . |
| 25 | ATNs have been widely used in natural language processing systems over the last two decades ( e.g. LUNAR ( Woods , 1973 ) , PROGRAMMAR ( Winograd , 1972 ) , SOPHIE ( Burton & Brown , 1979 ) ) . |
| 26 | The Adaptive Behavior Scale requires a rater to record the level and/or consistency of individual performance in living skills ; it has been widely used in American and British studies of deinstitutionalization . |
| 27 | However , they have been widely used by Tough and by many of the teachers she has worked with and thus , from a practical point of view , they seem to have been well tried and tested by practitioners . |
| 28 | Torture has been widely used by both security forces and death squads . |
| 29 | In trying to find answers , managers — whether they were heads or governors — were caught between the need to make progress and to prepare for broad changes which had been widely publicized by central government and to prepare for the necessity that they should lead changes . |
| 30 | For this reason , the footnote-reference system has been widely displaced by other accepted techniques , such as the system which we now describe , and which we would recommend . |