Example sentences of "been [adv] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then came the Hüskers split and what have been rather puzzlingly referred to as ‘ the wilderness years ’ . |
| 2 | The membership remained largely moribund until the First World War , although the title of the union had been somewhat pretentiously changed to the National Agricultural Labourers ' and Rural Workers ' Union ( N A L R W U ) in 1912 . |
| 3 | Poverty nearer home had been less vividly presented to her , and indeed it had been less colourful , less extreme . |
| 4 | Communists improved only slightly on the vote of 1929 , when they had fought under less favourable conditions but had been less fully committed to the " social fascist " position . |
| 5 | Was n't there a tiny nagging feeling on watching the re-runs of Butterflies that perhaps he would have been better off sticking to television comedy series and enjoying their rich rewards ? |
| 6 | Never had anything been so well trumpeted to me ; surely there had been an element of hyperbole from so many colleagues and friends who had been going to the jamboree for years ? |
| 7 | He has been so forcibly returned to his true ethos that when Boult returns , speaking prose , Lysimachus rebukes him in indignant verse ( 118ff . ) . |
| 8 | It is also important because , as the coordinator of the exhibition , the Soprintendente Giovanna Nepi Sciré said , ‘ This is the first occasion when one of Palazzo Grassi 's [ owned and administered by Fiat ] exhibitions has been so closely linked to Venetian public institutions . |
| 9 | But this time that feeling of being overpowered , which , in the past , she had been so helplessly prey to , was itself overcome by raw indignation . |
| 10 | ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity . |
| 11 | The parallel approaches of petrology ( or thin-section petrography ) and chemical analysis , which have been so successfully applied to ceramics . |
| 12 | Just quiet , controlled anger that the children should have been so arbitrarily removed to places where they had nothing loved or familiar , and no one to turn to . |
| 13 | and that had been so cruelly denied to Isaac by Jacob himself in his youth . |
| 14 | As a result , shop stewards have been more closely tied to their work groups , and in several industries created spontaneous , coordinated organisations at factory level to take advantage of increased bargaining opportunities during a period of high economic activity . |
| 15 | As a result , shop stewards have been more closely tied to their work groups , and in several industries created spontaneous , coordinated organisations at factory level to take advantage of increased bargaining opportunities during a period of high economic activity . |
| 16 | But the subjects I have been concerned with recently have been more directly related to my own experience of life : the situation in Northern Ireland ; the Gulf War ; my thoughts have come closer to home . |
| 17 | The controllers , own awareness of local conditions and operational requirements ( not to speak of their pre-nationalisation experience in design and construction ) could , they thought , have been more fully harnessed to the task . |
| 18 | Erm , just a short note , if you see the big lot of over there , and er , I think it would have been probably easier trying to describing it . |
| 19 | Unlike the laws of menstruation and childbirth , it had never been as intimately linked to cultic activity/purity and so no recasting was required following the events of 70 AD . |
| 20 | However , because of their desire to promote the idea of history as a scientific discipline , the Annales school have not been equally well disposed to all aspects of the past . |
| 21 | ‘ But one way and another I 've been quite enough trouble to you already . |
| 22 | Since much of the teaching materials used in FE is written ( textbooks , handouts , worksheets ) and examinations have until recently been almost entirely written to time , examples of material are examined and participants work on adapting and writing supplementary materials for use with bilingual students . |
| 23 | I also could point out , again , the shameful irony that the most dramatic advances for women have been almost entirely confined to the industrial world ; that the worst declines have been in poor countries among those very women whose work creates the wealth that buys us our freedom . |
| 24 | It 's just that until now , their efforts have been pretty much restricted to the dreary business of pointing out female ‘ sexism ’ . |
| 25 | This development is significant for two reasons : it increases considerably the national provision of courses for further education teachers leading to a professional qualification ; and it gives the polytechnics and colleges of higher education a large and growing stake in an enterprise that has hitherto been very largely confined to the colleges of education ( technical ) . |
| 26 | Even when a set of stunt lines have been very carefully matched to each , it is inevitable that line tension will stretch one more than the other . |
| 27 | The National Gallery has been very carefully restored to its nineteenth-century splendours . |
| 28 | She apologized obliquely for her husband , and McLeish murmured that Mr Morgan had obviously been very much attached to Angela . |
| 29 | Since moving to London in 1980 , I have been very much restricted to opportunities to see Leeds live due to the crowd problems and ensuing all-ticket matches , club cards , etc . |
| 30 | Gide was perceived as having been too closely allied to the psychological novel in the French tradition of the roman d'analyse . |