Example sentences of "been [vb pp] in the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven players have been dismissed in the latest intercontinental group stages and last night the organising committee of four officials each from Italy and England , chaired by Bristol City 's Leslie Kew , held a crisis meeting in Pisa . |
| 2 | With the release of ‘ The Rehearsal ’ his ultra-modest hopes have been realised in the finest possible style , because with the obvious exception of Jimmy MacCarthy 's debut there has n't been a solo endeavour to touch this one , here in recent times . |
| 3 | Individual replies have , of course , been treated in the strictest confidence , but some of the aggregated results of the survey are summarised below . |
| 4 | Americas Watch said that by 1986 overcrowding had been solved in the largest prison ( Tipitapa ) , and inmates had more facilities for work and recreation and for family visits . |
| 5 | However , reliability checks have been included in the latest version of the program . |
| 6 | So savour it while it is still new , because the developers have had the conservationists looking keenly over their shoulders during the building work , and everything has been done in the best possible taste . |
| 7 | It may seem odd to complain of an excess of refinement in a film that features talking anuses and rubber monsters shaped like bottoms , but it does all seem to have been done in the best possible taste . |
| 8 | It seems that this change is based on advice received from the Royal Society of Chemistry , though it has not been applied in the latest issue of Chemistry in Britain , neither can I recollect having seen it mention any possibility of change . |
| 9 | To all intents and purposes he was an attache with the Kenyan delegation at the United Nations and the only person outside UNACO who knew the truth was his wife , and even she had only been briefed in the vaguest possible terms . |
| 10 | He is not , he says , one who ‘ detracts from the existence or reality of things ’ ; and anyone who thinks otherwise ‘ is very far from understanding what hath been premised in the plainest terms I could think of ’ . |
| 11 | Around £850,000 has been invested in the latest equipment , by LSF , which has an annual turnover of £4m . |
| 12 | Her words sliced through Shannon like burning arrows , but only a faint staining of her cheeks showed she 'd been affected in the slightest . |
| 13 | But it is important to observe that the competitive character of the market process has not been affected in the slightest . |
| 14 | I am delighted to find you have been so successful in your Expedition : I heartily pray you may continue so to the end and safely return to Old England : I am much pleased too at hearing your health has not been affected in the slightest degree : pray be careful and never forget that upon your safety , hinges the welfare of numbers . ’ |
| 15 | A place has been found in the loneliest part of the island where , it is agreed ( ‘ Not yet , not yet ! ’ ) , ta skoupidia can be buried for the next 25–30 years , much more cheaply than by shipping it to Attica ( ‘ But the figure is not yet known ! ’ ) . |
| 16 | A radioactive leak has been found in the newest reactor of Bulgaria 's troubled Kozloduy nuclear power station . |
| 17 | By the end of November an estimated 1,000 civilians had been killed in the latest fighting and up to 6,000 injured . |
| 18 | Within France the DST has been reasonably successful in countering Russian and other East European intelligence operations although , as in Britain , spies have been discovered in the highest levels of government . |